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Orange, Responsible for What I Say and Do

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on March 28, 2013 at 2:56:41 am
 

Ideas for Orange, Responsible for What I Say and Do Meetings

Circle

Read a book

  • The leader read the book “David Gets in Trouble” by David Shannon. David’s antics have consequences.

  • Read your troop the story of Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister or have them watch the movie (we found both at our local library). After the story discuss how Rainbow Fish had to respect his friends in order to share with them. Also talk about the good feeling we get when we share with other people and how that relates to respecting ourselves.

 

Discussion topic

  • Chore chart

Have the girls think about what chore they could do to help mom do around the house and one that they can do at the Daisy meetings to help out, like take out the trash or push in the chairs at the end of the meetings. They have a chart to take home and check off for two weeks.

  • Help the girls make a list of “helping” words and phrases (“please,” “thank you,” “sorry,” etc.) and “hurting” words and phrases. Ask them which words they would rather speak-and hear from others.

  • Ask girls to remember a time when their actions caused a problem, and a time when their actions caused good things to happen. How did they feel each time?

 

Activity/Craft

Instructions

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

Following Safety Rules

Responsible for what I do can be as simple as having the girls always wear their seat belts when in a car and wear a helmet when riding a bike.

 

Chart with safety items and days of the week

 
   
   
   
   

 

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Songs

 

Outings

Plant some flowers in a public place

 

Pick up trash at a public place or as part of a community activity

 

 

 

 

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