Key to My Community: Your Day with Spark Guests

Guider Janice has been a long-time commenter on this site and the other day she e-mailed to ask for my opinion on how to make a talky meeting more fun.  I was honoured to be asked (she is Guider Janice of ”It Sticks” fame, after all) and I asked if she’d mind if we posted the final version here for [...]

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Christmas Crafts Meeting

Our last Brownie Meeting before Christmas was last week and boy was it fun!  We enrolled two girls, and we had Tracey come in to lead a craft that we think is the Best Craft Ever.  6:30  Game (Girls choice – they picked a Line Tag/Freeze Tag combo they made up).  Brown Owl went over [...]

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Remembrance Day Resources

In years that we do Key to my Community, we aim to have the Canada meeting around Remembrance Day.  Here is the meeting plan for November 2010.  You may also find the Simple Flag Ceremony Script useful. In opposite years (like this year) we are usually in the middle of Key to STEM so we do a [...]

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Neato! Make your own Scratch Off Cards

I’ve been stumbling again and found this from Martha Stewart!.   She says to combine one part dish soap with two parts metallic acrylic paint to make your own scratch-off cards – read the post for specific instructions.  Her post is for a Save-the-date card for a wedding (which is a sweet idea), but this could [...]

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Craft Ideas: Paper Flower Pop-up Card

Scroll down for paper flower craft mentioned in the title…  Time Suck Alert: I’ve found StumbleUpon.com.  It is a great service that really does find super neat and very appropriate things for me.  It is a huge time suck (such interesting stuff!) … you’ll sit down to Stumble and find yourself an hour later wondering where the [...]

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Simple Flag Ceremony

This is an update to my previous post on Flag Ceremonies which is getting a lot of hits.    I have added a printable one-pager here which I hope will make it even easier to include flag ceremonies into your unit meetings and events.   If you use this, please let me know how you do.

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Key to My Community: Advertisements

Gail Vaz Oxlade’s blog this morning was about kids and advertising.  I’m not sure how we’d translate this to a Brownie meeting, but I really like her suggestion of how to label different sorts of ads and identify their purpose.  Her labels - Wannabe ads; Famous People Ads, Cozy Ads, Fact Ads, and Great offer Ads - would be [...]

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Key to My Community: Flag Ceremony Script

I’m not sure if flag ceremonies are falling out of favour in Guiding units, or maybe they’re deemed “too complicated” for Brownies, or if we just don’t know how to do them anymore, but I haven’t seen a flag ceremony attempted in a couple of years.  I wonder if it is just in my little circle, [...]

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Tours and Visits

As I said in my previous post, we’re taking advantage of the Ottawa Girl Guide Archives to provide our meeting tomorrow night.  But there are lots of other neat (and often free) things available to book. Police Station Tours – The Ottawa Police Service offers evening tours of their facility for kids 8 years of age [...]

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