Thinking Day 2012: Our International Fair

Last night we held an International Fair for Thinking Day.  We had about 70 Spark, Brownie, Guide, Ranger and Guider participants from our area; it was completely a girl driven event – there wasn’t much the adults needed to do; and it went really well – we were afraid that there’d be some losing interest, but it [...]

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Thinking Day 2012: Passport

We’re always talking about creating a passport for some event or other and there are a few templates on the web.  When I say passport, I’m thinking of something that the girls get as they arrive at an event, then run around getting stamps or stickers or something on, and then have for later in their memory [...]

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Thinking Day 2012: Our Plan

In my area we have Sparks, Brownies, Guides, and Rangers.  The SBG group met last night to talk about Thinking Day and the Guide Unit proposed a neat idea for our event.  We’re going to hold an International Fair.  (This event will be based on one that a Guide Guider participated in years ago in [...]

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Thinking Day 2012: What’s the Plan?

This post is for Tonya from PEI.  She, like all of us, is looking ahead to Thinking Day.  In our area we have a planning meeting next week so I’ve been doing some preliminary work to prepare (I’m also a Community Guider - Ontario’s version of District Commissioner – so I’m chairing the meeting). Update – Here’s our plan. World Thinking Day (WTD) is [...]

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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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Key to … Everything!

Some meetings don’t have one single objective and tonight’s meeting is definitely one of them.  We’ve got four things to accomplish… Finish Key to I Can Sewing Magic.  We were working on sewing books in early January and, what with a meeting cancelled and a lot of other stuff to do, we haven’t been back [...]

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