Brownie Camping: Kit Lists

Brownie and Spark camp was a lot more popular than I expected and we are three people over capacity in the building we booked.  After asking for permission from the property people to allow us to have three extras in the cabin (answer was no), we were either going to have to limit the number [...]

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Key to Camping: Camp Prep Meeting

Brownies and Sparks are going camping in a couple of weeks and we had our camp prep meeting last night.  This one is a particular favourite of mine – mostly because it means we’re going CAMPING!  =) Here’s what happened… 6:30 Arrival.  The girls suggested Evolution. I had never heard about it before but it [...]

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Key to the Living World: Growing Celery and Onions

Here are three gardening projects for regrowing veggies from the root from www.17apart.com Growing Celery; Growing Onions, and Growing Bok Choy.  This would be great at camp or a good start it at Brownies, but watch it at home thing for Key to the Living World.

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Brownie Camping: What to Charge

When Brownies go on outings that cost money, you’ve always got to figure out what to charge. Some things to think about (aka obvious lessons learned as a Brown Owl who is an idiot with finances): In my opinion, Volunteers do not pay for admission!   Work out the cost of admission for the whole group and divide the [...]

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Brownie Sleepover: Night at the Museum

The girls love sleepovers.  They get to go someplace neat and see it in an unusual way.  Suggestions: Church Hall (try setting up a tenting site!), Museums, Cosmic Adventures (Guider Sara from Ottawa tells me that the girls can sleep anywhere in the play structure except the ball pit and at the top or bottom of a slide… super [...]

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Christmas Lights Walk

It is December and we’ve been going pretty hard on program so it is nice that tomorrow night is our annual Christmas lights walk.  (please don’t rain!) Simple, easy, one activity meetings like this are nice breaks from the regular meeting plan.  There is no badge work.  We don’t have to accomplish anything.  We just [...]

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Sing Ontario Sing 2011

Every year we approach our singing program in an unplanned, let’s see what happens kind of way.  The result of that is that we end up repeating about eight favourites through the whole year – and year-to-year.  Then we look at the Sing Ontario Sing program around Spring Camp - and we have a LOT of songs [...]

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Brownie Camping: Headbands

You know how on Survivor they have Buffs that designate each team?  Well, when we go camping with Brownies I have been known to try to re-create the idea with dollar store head scarfs, hair bands or scrunchies for the different patrol groups.   But these headbands (Tutorial: Sew a fabric headband from //Between the Lines//) would work beautifully – [...]

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Brownie Camping: Saying Thank you (Grace before meals)

Sitting down to dinner together is part of the ritual of camp and we need to balance the need to be thankful with the need to be consious that not everyone says Grace. In our unit, we have taken a non-denominational approach to Grace (or Thank You) at Brownie Camp.  We usually pick a sung [...]

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Brownie Camping: Edible Campfire

The Edible Campfire activity is an excellent way to demonstrate how to build a campfire without actually lighting a match. Here are some Edible Campfire ideas. From Dragon Scouting Web GuideZone Our Edible Campfire Text from Snowy Owl’s bag of tricks (Brackets = Supplies) When we make a campfire, we need a clear area (dinner [...]

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