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Activity Descriptions

supplies

Badge

At Home

Ask your Girl Scout what she promised to do to be considerate and caring. Help her keep her promise.

Create a list of things your Daisy can do at home to show she is considerate and caring. Recognize

your Daisy for the considerate and caring things she does. 

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Craft

Puzzle Piece Frames

"I Love You To Pieces Frame" materials: 8 Popsicle sticks per frame,lots of multi-colored small puzzle pieces,one hand-made puzzle piece with the words "I love you to pieces",tacky glue, scissors, photo. Assemble the frame by gluing the Popsicle sticks into a square shape, with 2 Popsicle sticks per side. Glue the puzzle pieces haphazardly around the frame overlapping to make at least 2 layers. Cut the photo (we brought a Polaroid camera and took instant photos of the mom and Daisy) to fit into the frame. Once the glue is mostly dry and holding the frame together, glue the photo to the back of the frame. (optional: glue or tape a piece of clear plastic over the photo first). Then when it is all glued together, glue the handmade puzzle piece that says "I Love You to Pieces" onto the frame in your desired location. (I printed up the words on the computer in a fancy font and pre-cut them for the Daisies). If you like, to finish the back, you can glue cardboard over the photo and hot glue a wire to hang it with, or a triangle piece of cardboard for a stand, or however you like. 

Popsicle sticks

Puzzle pieces

glue

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Craft

Cards

We made get well cards for people we knew who were sick.

We also made "thank you" cards for someone we wanted to thank.

Paper

Crayons

Envelopes

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Craft (15 min)

Promise Pals

While enjoying snack, have each girl share with the group one thing that she is going to do at home or

at school to show others that she is considerate and caring. Ideas include:

Telling a friend why she likes her.

Being nicer to a brother or sister.

Sharing her toys with a friend or sibling.

Listening to someone without interrupting.

Asking a friend/sibling what game they want to play and then playing it.

2. Have each girl make a promise to the other girls in her group identifying how she will be considerate

and caring. The girls in the group are now Promise Pals.

3. If possible, have the small groups check in with one another at another troop meeting to make sure

they kept their promises.

4. Have girls color their Zinni the Zinnia coloring sheets.

5. Girls can write (or have an adult help them write) what they promised to do from Activity #4. This

coloring sheet will serve as a reminder of the girl’s promise. 

Zinni the Zinnia coloring sheets (one per girl)

Meeting Zinni the Zinnia.pdf

Coloring utensils

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Game

A Chance to be Nice

Players line up facing one another. Taking turns each player skips down the line while the others say something nice about that person. This is a good opportunity to talk to the girls about how learning to respect others means treating them the way you would like to be treated!

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Game

Have the girls act things out

Pretend we're walking barefoot:

On really hot pavement

On a straight tightrope

Through a muddy puddle

In chocolate pudding

On sharp rocks

Over a slippery floor

Be:

As small as you can

Wind

As wide as you can

Rain

Water

A butterfly

Pretend to eat:

An apple

A caramel apple

A melting ice-cream cone

Very hot soup

A sour pickle

Rainbow Colors.

One girl sits in the middle of a circle. She calls out a color from the rainbow and points to a girl. The girl has until the count of seven to name something that is the same color. The girl in the middle changes places with the girl who misses.

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Game

Sticky Popcorn 

• Girls pretend to be popcorn kernels. They start out "popping" or jumping
• about slowly.
• The game leader who shouts out “hotter” increases the heat! Girls hop faster.
• Since this is sticky popcorn, when the girls touch each other they stick together, but they must continue to hop.
• They continue to
• hop until they've made one giant sticky popcorn ball.

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Game

Hug Tag

• One girl is "it."
• Girls are safe only when they are hugging another girl or 3 or 4 girls.
• Girls can't hug the same girl twice in one round of the game.

Variation: Back to Back Tag

"It" can tag anyone not standing back to back with another girl. No one can stand by the same girl longer than 5 seconds.

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Game

Laughing handkerchief

Drop a handkerchief. Everyone laughs out loud until it touches the floor. Then everyone must be perfectly quiet. Give everyone a chance to release the handkerchief.

handkerchief

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Game (10 min)

Getting the Feel of Things Charades

In a container, place scraps of paper with different feelings written on them, such as excited, angry,

happy and sad.

1. Being considerate means that you think and care about how others feel. Play this game to help girls

recognize and identify other people’s feelings.

2. Have girls (or pairs of girls) take turns picking a piece of paper out of the container.

3. Instruct them to try and express the emotion on the paper to the rest of the group without using any words.

4. The group should try to guess the feeling. 

Paper bag, bowl or other type of container

Feelings written on scraps of paper (at least one per girl)

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Game (15 min)

Listen Up!

1. Listening is another important part of being a good friend. A good listener is an active listener. She’s

someone who shows that she really cares what people are saying. She does this by giving her full

attention to the speaker, not interrupting and asking good questions. Try this activity to engage girls in

active listening.

2. Partner girls up and give each pair a small token or object.

3. Instruct one girl in each pair to close her eyes or put on a bandanna with the help of her partner or an

adult. This girl will be the listener.

4. The other girl will be the talker. Once the listeners have closed their eyes or been blindfolded, the

talkers should place their small tokens somewhere in the room. They shouldn’t be hidden in tricky

spots, but should be a bit out of the way. Tell the talkers that they should remember where they

placed their tokens.

5. Once the tokens have been placed, it is the talker’s job to lead her partner to the hidden token by

giving verbal instructions.

6. Once the tokens have been found, have girls switch roles and repeat.

7. After the activity is complete, discuss the role that listening played in this activity.

Why was listening so important?

How were you a good listener?

Was it hard to be an active listener?

What might make it easier to be an even better listener?

When you’re having a real conversation with someone, what are some things you can do to

show you’re really listening and care about what he or she is saying? 

Small objects or tokens, such as coins, pencils or scraps of paper

Optional: bandanna or other items to serve as blindfolds

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Game (20 min)

The Art of Sharing

1. Ask the girls to help you set up tables with paper, crayons, markers, paints, etc.

2. Tell girls to sit down and start making art.

3. Every two to four minutes, ring a bell (or make a bell-like sound). When the bell rings, girls should trade

whatever they’re using to make their art with the Daisy sitting next to them.

4. Point out how fun it is to see how their art changes as they share different supplies.

5. At the end of the activity, tell girls that sharing is another way of caring for their friends. Ask girls if they

have ideas for other ways to care for friends.

6. Optional: ask girls to share their artistic creations with each other. 

Paper

Crayons

Markers

Optional: paint, other creative materials, bell

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