Key to Brownies – Enrolling a new girl mid-year

When we started in September we weren’t quite full.  But now we’ve reached capacity and there are two girls who must be enrolled.  Dilemma!  The original girls got a nice big ceremony focused all on them.  These new girls deserve the same attention, but there just isn’t time. In a perfect world, here’s how I’d [...]

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Key to Brownies: Enrollment Prep

This is our fourth meeting of the year and Enrollment is next week.  This year we are doing a joint enrollment with the Sparks so we’re working closely with them.  But our standard Brownie enrollment can be found here – we like tradition and don’t go too far off our favourite one with stepping stones.  [...]

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Brownie Enrollment Ceremony

This ceremony is one we’ve tweaked through the years – but it started from something I found on the internet somewhere (if you find something similar – please let me know where I should give credit) and it is based on the Toadstool Story in the Brownie Book. Enrollment ceremony schedule: 6:30 Arrival game for [...]

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Key to Brownies: Brownie Circles

Putting together a meeting plan is one of the things that makes our meetings possible.  It means that everyone knows where they’re supposed to be, and what’s happening.  It works great.  Unless you forget to print it and bring it to the meeting.  Last week I had to pull up the meeting in my iPhone [...]

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Key to Brownies: Promise & Law

Tonight’s meeting theme (our second meeting of the year) is Key to Brownies: Promise and Law.  Here’s the plan: 6:30 Arrival Activity: Brownies Word Search (We made up our own using a Word Search Generator like this one. The search terms are: Brownie Words like: Kind, Best, Honest, True, Friends, Canada, Toadstool, World, Crafts, Promise, Law, Help, Care, [...]

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Key to Brownies: Brown Owl has her hand up

In my post about what to do on a first night I may have tripped across (created?) a new game.   And Joanne (a commenter who thinks a lot like me) has made it better. Brown Owl Has Her Hand Up Game Objective – to teach common signals and rules at Brownie and Spark meetings You need [...]

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Key to Brownies: First Night

Are you planning your meetings yet?  I’ve been avoiding it, but it is time to get my head back in the game.  I write this post to respond to those of you who searched for “Brownie Structure”, “Brownie First Meeting”, and anything that got you here by asking what the heck do we do on [...]

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Key to Brownies: Owl Craft

I saw this on Whatever this morning. Maybe a craft for the beginning of the year.  Am I really already starting to think about next year ???  Yeesh.

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Key to … Everything!

Some meetings don’t have one single objective and tonight’s meeting is definitely one of them.  We’ve got four things to accomplish… Finish Key to I Can Sewing Magic.  We were working on sewing books in early January and, what with a meeting cancelled and a lot of other stuff to do, we haven’t been back [...]

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