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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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: 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 Camping: Sing & Shout, Safety First, and Lost & Found

We’ve got a lot to cover tonight.  Here’s the plan. 6:30 Arrival Game – Going with Double Simon Says from Becky’s site.  Our original plan was to try to do a matching game for Dress Right, but I can’t find anything online and it was a big job to make one.  Does anyone have a [...]

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Key to Camping: Camping Know How

We’ve got a camp booked and are launching into Key to Camping.  We need to be careful that not all the girls are going camping – but they’re still going to get a lot out of the skills learned from K2C. Here’s our meeting plan for tonight. 6:30 arrival – Camp word search 6:40 Circle [...]

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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 I Can: Party Planner (Ice Cream!)

This meeting is a big effort to squash the winter blues.  We’re using the “Party Planner” portion of Key to I Can to have some fun.  And we get to make Ice Cream! Where we got the idea: We relied on Girl Guides of New Brunswick’s “I Scream Meeting” for this entire program. I love meetings in a [...]

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Welcome to Brownies – Our Structure

I am Brown Owl for the 119th Ottawa Brownies in Ottawa Canada – we also have a Snowy Owl, Starry Owl, and Spotty Owl.  We currently follow the Girl Guides of Canada Brownie Program and, as most of our ideas come from online and are documented electronically, I thought it would be cool to be [...]

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