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Activity Descriptions

supplies

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Craft

Stone Soup 

Read the story “Stone Soup” by Marcia Brown to your troop/group.

Have girls bring in the ingredients for their own “Stone Soup”.

Variation: Make A Friendship Fruit Salad 

Each girl in the troop/group is asked to bring in a piece of fruit. Each

piece of fruit is cut up into little pieces. Place all the fruit in a large bowl.

Mix up the fruit. Serve the fruit in small cups with whipped topping. You

have “Friendship Fruit Salad” (note: leaders may want to add a can of

cut up pineapple to the recipe, this adds juice to the salad).

Variation: Fruit yogurt sundae 

Fruit, yogurt, toppings

Get book

Pot

Broth

Plastic bowls and spoons

Arrange for kids to bring ingredients

Or

Big bowl

Knives

Cutting board

Plastic bowls and forks

Whipped topping

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Make puppets and act out a book 

Read the fable “The Lion & The Mouse”. What is the moral of this story?

Little friends may prove to be great friends.Good things come in small packages.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Make a Lion and a Mouse paper bag puppet and have girls re-create the fable.

Paper bags

Construction paper

Markers

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Craft

Sock Puppet 

Two girls work together on this project.  Take a sock.  One girl places in on their hand.  The other girl marks where she want to place the puppet’s eye, mouth, and nose.  The girls switch roles.  Now they glue on button, ribbons, etc.

Socks

Markers

Glue

Ribbons

Buttons

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Craft

Make friendship necklaces using straws and paper 

Directions – cut a piece of yarn slightly larger than the girls wrist. Cut different colored straws into pieces about 1” long. Cut 2” squares out of construction paper. Put the name of each girl on individual squares. Have each girl place one piece of straw on her yarn, then a square with her friends name on it, a straw, a name, etc. until all the girls names have been used. Tie the two ends together to make a bracelet.

String

Construction paper

Colored straws cut into pieces

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Helpful Hand Coupons 

Encourage girls to express their helpful heart by creating "Helping Hand" coupons to use at home.

Directions: have girls make a list of 5 ways to be a helper at home. Suggestions: Making bed, picking up toys, setting the table, turning off lights, playing with a sibling, feeding the family pet, and helping in the kitchen. Talk about each job/task on the list. Trace each girl’s handprint on the colored paper(s). Cut out handprints. Write each helping job/task on a handprint.

Variation: Helpful Hand Flower pot 

This week's activity revolves around the yellow petal -- Friendly and Helpful. Last week the girls traced their hands five times on construction paper. They then added a helpful thing they could do at home on each hand.

This week we'll cut out the hands and glue them to tongue depressors. We'll then stick them into styrofoam and into a small flower pot, like the sample I made here:

Throughout the next week, the girls' families will choose a "helping hand" flower when they need some help around the house.

Variation: Helpful Hands and Bingo

Make copies of the Helpful Hands BINGO sheets.

Optional: Print and cut out Helpful Hands at Home sheets.

1. Place coloring utensils in the center of the table and distribute a Helpful Hands BINGO sheet to each girl.

2. Tell girls that you are going to read them a situation, or explain something that could happen. In each

of the situations, someone needs a helping hand. Use the situations provided below.

Your little brother or sister is crying. How can you help?

Your dad is going to do the laundry. How can you help?

Your mom is trying to get dinner ready for your family. How can you help?

You just played with your dog outside and he got really dirty and messy. How can you help?

You just had an after-school snack with a friend. You notice that you left a lot of crumbs on

the floor. How can you help?

Your grandma did the laundry and there is a pile of your clean clothes in the laundry room.

How can you help?

Recycling is a good way for people to take care of the planet. How can you help?

You spilled your juice on the kitchen floor. How can you help?

Your dad usually does the grocery shopping for your family. This time, there is a really big

grocery list of items to get. How can you help?

3. Girls should look at their sheets and circle the helpful action she could take in response to the

situation. For example, if you read, “Recycling is a good way for people to take care of the planet. How

can you help?” girls would find the picture of the girl with the recycling bin and circle it.

4. Continue playing until girls have circled all of the helpful behaviors on their BINGO sheets. All girls will

be “winners” in this cover-all BINGO game.

5. Next, ask the girls which of those helpful behaviors they can personally do at home or at school. How

can they be helpful hands? Ask them to try and do at least one helpful thing during the next week.

6. Optional: print and cut out the “Helpful Hands at Home” sheet and distribute several to each girl. She

can leave one of these behind after she has done a chore or helped around the house.       Helpful Hands BINGO sheets (one per girl)

Coloring utensils

Optional: Helpful Hands at Home sheets (3-4 per girl)

Construction paper

Markers

Or

construction paper

scissors

glue

markers

styrofoam

flower pots

or

Helpful Hands BINGO sheets (one per girl)

Coloring utensils

Optional: Helpful Hands at Home sheets (3-4 per girl)

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Community Service Placemats 

Put a smile on someone’s face with art work. Decorate placemats for soup kitchens and similar programs as a community service.

Placemats are one way to share your creativity and thoughts with others You could use plain white placemats or legal-size copy paper.

Choose your theme. This project works any time of year---Valentine’s Day, Halloween, Cinco de Mayo, Martin Luther King Day of Service---and is nearly always welcomed. Let their imagination soar. Draw landscapes, messages, poems, flowers, or designs. Make as many different or similar placemats as you want. Recipients sometimes hang these pictures in their rooms!

Variation: Write a letter or draw a picture to share 

Write simple letters or draw pictures and exchange them with people in your community, such as at a nursing home, etc.

Arrange with group to give placemats

Legal sized paper

Markers

Crayons

Decorating materials

Or

Paper

crayons

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Get to Know Me Necklace 

Girls will create bead necklaces with beads representing their interests. Name tags will go on these.  If there is time, girls can play a game where they find girls with similar interest.

Revised from: http://sunnydaysinsecondgrade.blogspot.com/2011/07/contest-winner-fun-freebie.html 

Notes:

We used paper bowls for the girls to collect the beads and gave them a bunch of white beads to use to fill in the necklace.  We started by having the girls go up and pick out the beads themselves, but there were too many girls and it got chaotic, so we ended up having the rest of the girls in a circle and the leaders and helpers went around the circle asking girls the questions and then giving them beads.  Overall, this was a little too complex for the Kindergartener.  I liked the outcome and the kids got a kick out of me being able to read their necklaces, but too difficult for Kindergartners.  Worked okay for 1^st graders. 

Beads

stretchy string

bowls

printout instructions

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Compliment game 

Break the girls into 3 groups

The girls sit in a circle. The girls go around the circle giving the girl next to them a compliment.  The girls can then choose anyone in the circle to compliment.  Then the girls thought of a compliment for themselves.

Notes:  We have a large group and the girls didn't know each other so well to give detailed compliments.  It worked well and they liked it, but it would be more fun with kids who know each other better.

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Make a Friendship Chain 

Give each girl strips of construction paper. Have everyone decorate and write their name and the name of a friend on the strips. Let girls take turns adding their strips to the chain. Display the chain in your meeting room. Keep a supply of construction paper strips on hand and invite the girls to continue adding strips to the troop/group friendship chain.

Construction paper

stapler

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“A girl scout was here” 

Read the Brownie Story. Each time the girls hear the word helpful, have them stand up and shout "Helpful!" Then send them home with little sheets of paper that say, "A girl scout was here". Each time they do a good deed/chore without being asked, they can leave a slip of paper.

Variation: “A Daisy was here” Daisies 

We took some foam precut flower shapes and wrote "A Daisy was Here" on each one in permanent marker, we made 4 for each girl. The girls decorated their daisies with stickers, glitter, and general "stuff" from our craft

supplies box. Each girl took home their daisies and could leave one when she did something helpful – like straightening the magazines on the coffee table or feeding the fish. The next week the girls

Variation: Daisy Kindness Keeper 

Every time your Daisy does a good deed, she glues on a flower. Each flower represents one of the petal colors! When all done, she can make her Kindness Keeper into a crown or a belt.

Cut two strips of white craft foam 1-1/2" x 12". Glue ends together to make one long piece. Round the ends and punch a hole in each end. Have your Daisies hang them from a door or cabinet. Each time she does a good deed, she can glue on a flower. Use a clothespin to keep it in place while drying. Have the girls bring their finished keepers to the next meeting. Glue a gem on the middle of each flower. Make them into a crown by stapling ends together or a belt by tying a string through the end holes.

http://www.makingfriends.com/scouts/daisy_deed_counter.htm 

Book

“A girl scout was here” slips

Or

Foamie Daisies

White Craft Foam

Tacky Glue Clothespins

Hole Punch

Satin Cord

Gemstones

Scissors

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Craft and Game

Read the story “Winnie The Pooh Friendship Day” from Disney. 

Make paper hats, read friendship stories, have a bouncing contest, make award ribbons and celebrate your own troop/group Friendship Day. 

large paper

award ribbons

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Meet new people

We had the girls find someone in the room whose name they didn't know.  They had to introduce themselves and find out one thing about the other person. 

We did two rounds of this.

Notes: We have a large group and this was one of our first few meetings, so this activity worked well. I liked this one.

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Game

Rabbit Without a House - Sweden

Pick someone to be "it" (the rabbit without a house) and someone to be the caller.

Divide the others into groups of three.

Each group makes a rabbit house by two girls holding hands (the house) and one girl (a rabbit) standing outside.

The caller yells out "find a house" and all the rabbits, including the one without a house, have to run to find another house.

The rabbit left without a house becomes "it."

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Ducks and Cows

This is a good game to divide a group of people into two teams. Depending on the size of the crowd, 1 or 2 people circulate among the crowd and tap people on their shoulders saying to them either duck or cow. Players are then instructed to close their eyes and by quacking or mooing, find their other teammates, until you have one large group of quacking ducks and one of mooing cows.

Variations: Mating Game (from More New Games)

Give names of veggies, fruits, animals, careers (one category for each round of game). Giving at least two people in the group the same "title". Then with animals/people items everyone makes the noise and action of their title; with veggies/fruits, no noise is made, just actions and body language of their title. All must try and find their "mate" (same title).

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Balloon Relay

Circle relay. Each team forms a circle, and a balloon is placed in front of each team captain. On signal, each captain used her broom to sweep the balloon around the outside of her circle and back to her original place. She hands the broom to the player on her left, who continues to sweep the balloon around the circle. All players take a turn. The first team to finish wins.

Balloon

Broom for each team

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Game

Stand Up

This is a cooperative game. Sit on the ground, back-to-back with your partner, knees bent and elbows linked. Now simply stand up together. After succeeding, try it with three people, four people, etc.

Notes: This was pretty fun.  It gets easier with more people.  Some groups needed help with the first round and could not get up without a little help from the adults.

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Differences Game

Explain to the girls that it is okay to look different from other people. Play the following game to show girls how they have differences yet are all the same.

Tell girls to run to different designated areas in the room with the following.

When I say go; everyone with...

brown eyes--run to the left corner (point to which corner)

green eyes--run to the right corner (point to which corner)

blue eyes--run to the door

hazel eyes--run to the middle

Do the same with: curly, straight, short and long hair, height, shoes, wearing certain colors.

Once they have played the game. Ask girls: Does everyone look the same? Help girls understand that we all have eyes, yet our eyes are different. We all have skin, yet the color can be different. Ask girls to come up with more ways that we are all the same and ways we are different.

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Hulahoop Game

We took 3 hulahoops and put them on the floor. The girls had to figure out how they could help each other get across the room when they could only be "safe" standing in a hulahoop. They figured out that if they put all of them in 2 the back hulahoop could come to the front and then they could all move forward

Variation: TURTLES

Split into teams of about 6 girls per group

Each girl is given a paper plate called a “turtle.”

The team is expected to cross an area called the “Peanut Butter Swamp.” The troop leader selects the size and position of aforesaid “swamp.”

Not only must the girls step only on the “turtles,” but the “turtle” must always have someone incontact with it. If anyone touches the ground with any part of her body, they are devoured by analligator that lives in the “Peanut Butter Swamp.”

The girl must drop out of the crossing, and take her “turtle,” too! 

If a “turtle” is left untouched, it is devoured by the alligator, leaving the team with fewer “turtles.”

The person leading the team across the “Peanut Butter Swamp” must keep receiving “turtles” from her teammates in order to advance.

Once all members are on their “turtles” over the “swamp,” the last girl has to pick up her“turtle” and pass it forward. It is up to the team to figure out how to get the last person and her “turtle” across the “swamp” without being eaten.

The team which makes it across the “Peanut Butter Swamp” with the greatest number of survivors wins the “Best Turtle” award.

3 hulahoops 

or paper plates

ropes or tape to designate starting and stopping point

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Game

Act out being friendly and helpful  

• Give the girls scenarios and ask how they would be friendly and helpful
• Lady pushing a stroller trying to get out a door. Daisy went over and opened and held the door for her. Play stroller with a doll from my house. 
• Someone shopping had too many things in their hands and dropped some items. Daisy took her a reuseable shopping bag and picked up dropped items. Items from my home were play food and a canvas shopping bag. 
• A Daisy is asked to pick up her clothes without assistance from anyone. Daisy does so and also picks up some toys on floor. Items from my home were clean, rolled up socks and a few small toys and a plastic bin to put them in.

We ran through each skit twice so each girl on the team could play each role. 

Variation: We have a large group, so we tried this variation

Break girls into 3 groups and have them line up in two row.  One row is the “damsel in distress” who needs help and the other row is the helper. The rows will switch after each thing.

1) Have the “damsel” be a new girl who is feeling shy

Ask the girls what the helper should do.  Have the helper row act out some helpful things.  Like saying hello and introducing themselves.

2) Have the “damsel” fall down and hurt herself.  As above, ask what they should do and then have them act it out

3) Mom, the “damsel” comes home and there is a big mess in the playroom.

4) The “damsel” is someone who is sitting all alone at recess

5) The “damsel” is your baby sister and she is crying while dad is trying to fix dinner.

Notes:  Different groups went at different rates, so when the first group was done, we stopped and moved onto the games.  This work surprisingly well.  The girls who were more shy took a little time to get into it, but they eventually did 

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Game (10 min)

Meeting New Friends in Many Languages

1. Part of being friendly is greeting other people and making them feel welcome. Tell girls that today, they will practice being friendly by mingling, then greeting one another and introducing themselves.

2. Tell girls to start by walking (or skipping, or hopping) around the room at random, mumbling “mingle,

mingle, mingle…,” as they go.

3. After just a bit of mingling, call out one of the “hellos” in the chart below.

Greeting Language

مﻡرﺭحﺡبﺏاﺍ , mArHAbAN (pronounced Marha-

ban)

Arabic

Namaskar Bengali

Ni Hao (pronounced nee how) Chinese (Mandarin)

Bonjour French

Guten Tag German

Namaste (pronounced nah-mah-STAY) Hindi

Ciao Italian

Oi Portuguese

Privet (pronounced pree-vyet) Russian

Hola Spanish

4. When girls hear you call out, they should stop where they are and turn and face the person nearest

them (note: If there isn’t an even number of girls, permit groups of three).

5. When girls stop and face one another, ask them to introduce themselves with a smile, a handshake

and a friendly greeting. They can say something like, “Hi, my name is _____. Nice to meet you.”

6. Repeat so that girls get to “meet” new people and practice greeting them in a friendly way.

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Game (10 min)

The Friend Line

Mark a line on the floor with tape long enough for all the girls to stand along it in a single-file line.

Designate one side as “Friendly” and one side as “Not Friendly” (you can do this by creating signs and

posting them or you can simply designate sides every time you call out a behavior).

1. Ask the girls to stand single-file along the marked line.

2. Tell girls that you are going to call out some behaviors, or ways that people act. Use the behaviors

below or come up with some of your own.

3. Girls should decide if the behavior is friendly or not friendly. If they think it is friendly, they should jump

to the “Friendly” side of the line. If they think it is not friendly, they should jump to the “Not Friendly”

side of the line.

Behavior

There is a new student in your class. You invite her to play with you and your friends.

A girl from school smiles and says hello to you on the playground. You don’t say anything

and go find your friends.

Your friend Maddie tells you that you should only play with her and not any of your other

friends.

You invite some kids from your neighborhood over to your house to play. You share your

favorite toys with them.

You are playing tag on the playground and you get “tagged.” You don’t want to be “it” so

you shout out, “I don’t want to be it. I’m not playing anymore!”

Your mom’s friend Mrs. Kale comes over to your house to see your mom. Your mom

asks you to open the door. You open the door for Mrs. Kale, smile and say hello.

You’re making teams to play a game at school. You only choose your friends to be on

your team and you tell the other kids that you don’t want them on your team.

Your older sister is so annoying sometimes. Sometimes she bosses you around and

makes fun of you, so you make fun of her.

At a Girl Scout meeting, your friend Celia drops her fruit snacks on the dirty floor. There

aren’t any extras. You help Celia pick up and throw away her fruit snacks. Then, you

share some of yours with her.

Your birthday party is coming up and you invited all the girls from your class. A new girl

just moved to town and joined your class. You invite her to your party.

4. Discuss any behaviors that the girls have trouble identifying as friendly or not friendly.

Masking tape

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Time

Description

Supplies

Who will lead

Opening Activity

(10 min)

Snack

Friendly and Helpful coloring page

Crayons

handouts

Circle

(5min)

• Opening ceremony – pledge of allegiance and GS promise

• Take attendance

Choose activity

(5 min)

Discuss how we want to go on some outings as a group and the girls get to choose between two things. Explain that there are signs on the wall and we will vote with our feet by going over to the sign. Explain that not everyone will get what they want this time.

The choice is: Do you want to go to a fire station or a police station?

Signs

tape

Read story

(5 min)

• Discuss how we earn badges

• Read Friendly and Helpful story from Daisy Guide

• Girls will then break into three groups to discuss examples in the story of being friendly and helpful

• Describe the next activity

  Notes: Discussion went quickly. Next time need to come up with more interesting things to discuss.

Daisy Guide

Copies of the questions for each group

Activity

(10 min)

Act out being friendly and helpful

Break girls into 3 groups and have them line up in two row. One row is the “damsel in distress” who needs help and the other row is the helper. The rows will switch after each thing.

1) Have the “damsel” be a new girl who is feeling shy

Ask the girls what the helper should do. Have the helper row act out some helpful things. Like saying hello and introducing themselves.

2) Have the “damsel” fall down and hurt herself. As above, ask what they should do and then have them act it out

3) Mom, the “damsel” comes home and there is a big mess in the playroom.

4) The “damsel” is someone who is sitting all alone at recess

5) The “damsel” is your baby sister and she is crying while dad is trying to fix dinner.

Notes: Different groups went at different rates, so when the first group was done, we stopped and moved onto the games. This work surprisingly well. The girls who were more shy took a little time to get into it, but they eventually did.

Sheet for each group with the scenarios written out

Games (10 min all together)

Stand Up

This is a cooperative game. Sit on the ground, back-to-back with your partner, knees bent and elbows linked. Now simply stand up together. After succeeding, try it with three people, four people, etc.

Notes: This was pretty fun. It gets easier with more people. Some groups needed help with the first round and could not get up without a little help from the adults.

Game

Compliment game.

Break the girls into 3 groups

The girls sit in a circle. The girls go around the circle giving the girl next to them a compliment. The girls can then choose anyone in the circle to compliment. Then the girls thought of a compliment for themselves.

Notes: We have a large group and the girls didn't know each other so well to give detailed compliments. It worked well and they liked it, but it would be more fun with kids who know each other better.

Game

Meet new people

We had the girls find someone in the room whose name they didn't know. They had to introduce themselves and find out one thing about the other person.

We did two rounds of this.

Notes: We have a large group and this was one of our first few meetings, so this activity worked well. I liked this one.

Clean up

(5 min)

Closing

(5 min)

• Talk about what we learned

• Remind the girls that they should practice being helpful and friendly. Explain that the girls will be taking home sheet of paper where they should write down what they did to be friendly and helpful. Tell them they can share what they did at the next meeting.

• Closing ceremony – Learned Taps with hand motions, friendship circle, friendship squeeze

• Handout friendly and helpful sheets

• Handout beads and string to girls who missed first meeting