Brownie/Daisy Day Fun!

Brownie/Daisy Day was a rousing success. We stayed up late at night and ate s'mores, cooked over a fire, and earned a badge in Letterboxing! We're fired up now for camping and I'm thinking of planning another camping trip this fall. Pictures are below!

 The girls get ready for their first station, a hike to find letterboxes.

Taking the troop picture. 

Finding letterboxes... 

Reading clues... 

Playing freeze tag while in our down-time. 

Time to move on! 

On the troll bridge. 

At the wishing tree. 

When your stick falls out, your wish will come true! 

Leaving our mark (stamp) in the book. 

Snake! Not even dead! 

Lunch! 

Making our own stamps. 

These stamps did not work out so good. But we tried. 

Digging for treasure. 

 Ooo! Jewels!

Rings and necklaces! 

Tiaras! 

Gold coins! 

Playing games.

We are getting tired and a little loopy. 

Fierce girls! And one cutie pie.

 

Girls. Enough with the sand, already.

Making singing apples after dinner. 

Many apples fell into the fire. It was still fun though. 

Thank you Miss Amy ^ and Miss Annette for your help with dinner! 

Goodbye Camp McMillen!

Next meeting & Tin Caps

Cookie sales are officially over and the girls earned more than $600 for our troop! We talked at the last meeting about what we'd like to do to celebrate. They came up with a lot of good ideas: A spa day, Chuck E Cheese, Crazy Pins, Cedar Point (uh...no), Build-A-Bear, Painting Fun Spot. I suggested a camp I found a couple of hours away that has a rock climbing wall, zip line, and ropes course. And Lisa suggested the Girl Scouts overnight at the Tin Caps.

So the girls voted and the winner is...an overnight at the Tin Caps! It sounds like a lot of fun. The girls will attend the game with fireworks after. When that's done, they'll show a movie and have pizza, and after THAT we will all collapse into sleeping bags on the field under the stars or in a tent, exhausted. The Tin Caps provide breakfast the next morning, and then we all go home.

The nice thing about this is that families and siblings can do it too. Sure, you like your bed at home, but haven't you always wanted to sleep on a baseball field surrounded by hundreds of Girl Scouts? Wait, don't answer that. :-) Details will be coming soon.

Our next meeting would have been April 2nd but that's spring break, so we won't be meeting again until April 16. See you then!

Kristin

Cookies

Hello parents! We have a cookie booth coming up this weekend! The people I have attending are:

Sunday 2/19, 12:00-1:00 pm

Makayla Ryan/Kim

Anna Annette

Sophie Kristin

Savannah

Sunday 2/19, 1:00-2:00 pm

Sophie Kristin

Brooklyn
Savannah
Kaitlynn

Also...Cookie sales are nearing an end...we have about two weeks left to sell! There are several patches your daughter can earn for selling cookies. If she sells at least 25 boxes, she will automatically get the Cookie Patch for participation. Other prizes can be earned for selling more than that--they're listed on the order form you got.

If your Brownie is participating in a cookie booth, she'll get a patch for that. She'll also get a patch for any Cookie Share cookies she sells (cookies that are donated to the soldiers).

She can also earn a Goal-Getter patch by filling out Goals on the ABC Smart Cookie website. In the past, you had to print out this form and give it to the leaders. But not this year! This year she only needs to fill out the form and complete her goals to earn the patch. The Cookie people at Council will know who filled it out. Directions for filling out the Goal form and getting this patch are here:

1. Go to www.gsnim.org

2. Click on the COOKIES button (pink)

3. Click on COOKIE VOLUNTEER INFO button

4. Click on GIRL GOAL SETTING INSTRUCTIONS

**If the order form looks like you can't read it (items are blacked out), then you need to open it by using Adobe, etc.

If the girl cannot remember her GSUSA ID or her CookiEZone ID, have her select "Forgot ID" & proceed from there.

Please let me know if you have any questions. See you either Sunday at the booth or at Monday's meeting. We'll be practicing First Aid!

Brownie-Daisy Day

Brownie-Daisy Day is coming up and our troop is going! It's a super-fun day to spend with other girl scouts. The event will take place May 11-12 and 2nd graders are allowed to spend the night, if they'd like.

Because cabins are awarded on a first-come first-served basis, I want to get our troop's info in as soon as possible. Please let me know at Monday's meeting if you plan to attend.

For girls who spend the night, Friday's dinner and Saturday's breakfast will be provided. All girls should bring a lunch for Saturday. Saturday evening's dinner and campfire/smores supplies will be provided for everyone. After the campfire on Saturday night, everyone goes home.

We hope you can make it to this fun event!

First Aid!

On Monday we are starting work on our next badge, a first aid badge. We'll talk about 911 when the meeting starts, and at 6:45 we'll go into the fire station to take a half-hour tour. See you then!

Happy New Year!

The Father-Daughter Dance is coming up! It will be held February 4 from 6:30-8:30 at the Coliseum. If you need the sign-up form, please let me know.

Please plan to have one parent stay for the meeting on the 9th. I'll be talking about cookie stuff, and you'll be telling us how many of each kind you'd like. We are able to pick up cookies on the 13th, and if you want yours right away, you can pick them up at Kim Waugh's house after the 13th. Kim is our cookie mom. We'll have contact information for Kim at the meeting.

If you're not worried about getting cookies right away, you can wait to pick them up at our meeting on Jan. 23. Cameron is bringing snack.

See you Monday!

Meeting Monday and Painting Fun Spot!

Hello Brownie parents!

Our next meeting is Monday, Nov. 21. Anna is bringing snack.

For the December meeting (Dec. 5), we thought it would be fun to take a trip to Painting Fun Spot (where we made ornaments last year). It's located at the shopping center at the corner of Scott and Illinois Rd. Here's a map for those of you who have never been there. http://bit.ly/t4Ika6

The troop has enough funds to cover the entire cost of the trip, so all you need to do is drop off your Brownie at 6:30. We'll be done by 7:30, as usual.

That meeting in December is our last meeting before the holidays. After that, we'll see you again in January (the 9th). Cookie sales officially start the following week! I am not yet sure whether we'll have cookies available for pick up at that meeting, or if you'll be picking them up at the following one, so please check back here for updates. I'm also planning to have the cookie booth at the Scotts at Chestnut Plaza (Scott & Illinois Rd). We'll do it two Saturdays in a row, hopefully right after cookie sales start. I'll have a sign up sheet at the first meeting in January. Please be sure to sign up! All cookie sales the group makes are divided equally between the girls that attend the booth, and those sales count toward your daughter's total cookie sales. This translates into Cookie Cash!

More details will follow. See you Monday night!

Kristin