Key to the Arts: Drama and Storytelling

I attended a Guider training in January and it got me looking for resources for storytelling and drama. Drama Warmups and Circle Games from Primary Resources.  You’ve got to get the girls into the right frame of mind for drama and these are perfect to “set the stage”.  I like “Fortunately, Unfortunately”. Icebreakers, Warmups, Energizers and [...]

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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 Active Living: Health, ZZZZ, Germ Buster

This week we’re starting off Key to Active Living with Germ Buster, ZZZZ and Good Health. The three sections fit together nicely. And we’ve done this before and Snowy Owl brilliantly kept it, so there isn’t much work to do to prepare. (To give proper credit, I think Snowy Owl Christine and Grey Owl Kelly [...]

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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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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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Back From Camp

I am still composing my thoughts about camp – but it was a true joy to be there and I will write a full post on it.  For now, I’ll post links to my most Brownie relavant learnings. Edelweiss – Did you know that this beautiful song has ACTIONS!??  It does!  How did I not know this? [...]

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Key to Guides: Brownie Memories

 I am looking forward to the end of the year (I always do), but I’m also always a little sad to see it go.  If I’m honest, (and as much as I love Brownies) the best day of the entire year is the first Tuesday without Brownies – June 7 is so close! We have [...]

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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 Camping: Ditty Bag

A ditty bag is generally a bag or stuff sack that carries personal items such as toiletries (Wikipedia).   In the context of Girl Guides, it is a fabric bag with the camper’s name on it that holds the camper’s marked dishes and cutlery at camp. About the Bag: A good ditty bag is breathable fabric or mesh, [...]

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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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