Materials needed:

Puppets

Leader read “Berenstain Bears Manners Book” interactively with puppets. The girls decorated paper bags with faces and a verbal expression (please, thank you, welcome).

Get “Berenstain Bears Manners Book”

Paper bags

Markers

Manners Skits

Do little skits with the girls where they have to role-play using good manners. For example, set up some chairs in bus formation and have one girl get on the bus who needs to sit down for one reason or another (is elderly, expecting, carrying m bags, all of the above.) Of course there are no seats available! Who will be nice enough to offer a seat. The leader assigned the parts by choosing straws and set up the scenes. You can do telephone calls, offering to share an umbrella, whatever. Be creative. They liked all the props – cane, baby dolls, overstuffed shopping bags and more.

props

Plant some flowers at your meeting place

Shovels

Fertilizer

Plants

Prearrange with location

Plant vegetable seeds for the girls to take home.

Explain to girls they are going to grow their own plant from a seed. Ask them

what a seed needs to make it grow? Good soil, water, sunlight and nutrients. A plant needs just enough of each of these items to grow sufficiently--not toomuch or too little. Spread newspaper upon the desks, give each girl a plastic cup, piece of plastic wrap for the top, rubber band, soil and seed. Have them plant their seed in the soil, water seed and put a plastic cover on top. Explain to thegirls that once the seed starts to grow (sprout) they must take the plastic off so the seed can be watered everyday and the sun can get to it.

Cups

Potting Soil

Seeds

Pick up trash

Do a service project that helps the environment. Pick up trash around the school, park or playground (wear gloves, of course!). Talk to the girls about how each person should help take care of the earth. Maybe plant a tree or some flowers.

Gloves

Trash bags

Prearrange with location