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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Key to STEM: Make your OWN Shrink Art!

It turns out that you can use Clean #6 Plastic instead of purchasing Shrink Art sheets…Follow the link to Curbly.com for instructions.  Super cool - and a lot cheaper than the $20 package of blanks I was looking at the other day.  We have no oven access our meetings, so we would likely use this as a camp [...]

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Key to STEM: CD Hovercraft Craft

Have you ever made your own hovercraft!?  The folks at http://www.thechocolatemuffintree.com/2011/06/cd-hovercraft.html have posted a neat tutorial for one that looks like loads of fun.  It probably would fit into STEM Caboosh, or Building up.   As well as Key to the Living World: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! The big thing will be to give the girls balloons that they can [...]

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Key to Living World: Weather Watcher and Seasons

We’re running out of steam in the planning and this one was planned at the last minute.  It was pretty successful though.  Our theme tonight is Weather and Seasons.  6:30 Arrival – Freeze Tag!  Easy and topical!  The girls wanted it to be tougher so they made it Line Tag Freeze Tag.  6:45 Brownie Circle [...]

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Key to Living World: Plant Life

April 26 was all about plants.  (Well, mostly – our games were not so plant oriented).  We had two plants to plant in different ways, and one experiment. Notes: I attribute the success of this meeting to (1) Planning and pre-cutting and sorting; and (2) Tall narrow freezer bags (not the zip tops, but the [...]

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Key to the Living World: Earth Day

Our April 19 meeting was pretty low key.  We had just come back from camp so everyone is pretty tired.  6:30 Arrival Activity Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Word Search (from alschutzman.com) 6:40 Circle Time 6:50 Brownie Circle 7:00 Program Earth Day Quiz http://www.squiglysplayhouse.com/Games/Quizzes/Holidays/EarthDay.html  Then we made Toilet Roll Flowers.  This was one my Mom did with my [...]

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Key to Living World: Water All Around

I take absolutely no credit for tonight’s meeting plan.  Starry Owl and Snowy Owl put this together. 6:30 Arrival Game: H2O Tag 6:40 Circle Inspections 6:45 Brownie Circle 6:55 Program – Introducing Key to Living World, and Water all Around. 7:00 Skit Practice - Water and No Water (from Brownie Book?) 7:15 – Cleaning Oiled Feathers [...]

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Key to Living World: Sprouts

We struggle with activities that require time to set because our meeting space has very limited storage and there is no place for us to leave things for the next week.  Glue, paint, or anything that needs to dry or grow just don’t work well for us. We still do them, but have to be picky. So [...]

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