Green Level Safe Guide Activity: Brownies Swim Meeting

Tonight we repeat the very popular Brownies Swim meeting that is based on the retired Brownies Splash challenge from Ontario Council. Safe Guide Activity Level: Green (as of May 2012)!  We are going during regular public swim, so the pool provides the lifeguards.  And we provide 1:5 supervision in the pool.  No fuss.  Fun.  Awesome. NOTE – [...]

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Be Prepared: Emergency Preparedness Challenge Badge

The GirlGuidesCANBlog posted some great meeting ideas for the GGC Ontario Council Emergency Preparedness Challenge. Check out: Being [Emergency] Prepared – Brownie Style! To note, when we did this challenge we were able to invite paramedics WITH an Ambulance to our meeting.  We advised parents ahead of time that they shouldn’t be alarmed if they found [...]

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Key to the Arts: Act it Out and No Talking

Happy New Year everyone!  I hope you had a lovely holiday.  Our first meeting of the year is here and, because we had a planning meeting in December (i.e. we’re not scrambling to figure out what we’re doing), I think we’ve got a neat one. We are combining Key to the Arts with Ontario Girl [...]

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Sing Ontario Sing!

Have you done the Sing Ontario Sing (Updated Feb 2012 after GGC Ontario Website change) challenge?  Ontario Girl Guides sets this challenge annually with a whole new set of songs on the list.  The idea is that girls are exposed to different songs (not the five or so that they hear and request each week).  The [...]

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