Daisy Girl Scout Leaders

[Marshay]

I agree...sounds perfect! I might try to convince a mom to host something like this for our troop!

Question for y'all....what do you do to make up petals that a girl missed earning because she was absent from the meeting? I have such a hard time figuring out how to re-create that learning experience for just 1 girl.

Thanks!

We had this happen to us ... and I put the burden on the parents to recreate.

We made muffins for homeless people through one of the churches at Thanksgiving and one of the girls was sick.

So I asked the mom to make muffins/brownies or cookies with her daughter and give them to a neighbor. The mom was supposed to talk about "cooking/baking" and also what it means to be "friendly and helpful". Then the girl had to knock on the door (with mom) and tell the neighbor why she made muffins to help them out.

Another girl missed a "Cheer and Tumble" event (for a fun patch) and in order for her to get that patch (since she paid for it already), I told the mom to sign her daughter up for a free introductory class (1 visit) at a local gymnastics center and then I'd give her the patch.

We only have 4 girls but I decided from the beginning that if a girl misses it, I wasn't going to go out of my way to help her make it up. However, I will let her catch up on her own with her parents help.

This Wednesday we are making Valentine's cards for senior using all materials already found in our home for the green petal. So if someone misses it, I will tell them to make their own cards and give them to seniors in their neighborhood or at the center. Then they can still earn the patch.

Good luck!

 

[Marshay]

We had this happen to us ... and I put the burden on the parents to recreate.

Good luck!

Also forgot to mention at the next meeting the girl had to show pictures and/or tell us what she did to earn her petal.

 

[kelann7]

For girls that missed earning a petal, I'm planning on spending some time at one of our meetings doing a review of the petals we earned so far and at that time, the girl who missed will have a chance to "make it up" - I'm planning a small activity that will get the point across for the girl that missed and also be a review for the other girls. I only plan on doing an activity for the petals that someone missed - if they all have the petal, then I will just talk a little about that petal or have them tell me about what that petal means.

I already worked this into my plan for future meetings. Meanwhile, I saw on another board where they came up with a "Activity to do at home" - don't want to say homework - where they were given a sheet with a couple of ideas of things to do with a parent to make up the petal and then the parent signs it - the girl brings it to the next meeting and she has to tell the group what she did at home for this petal. I think I may do something like this next year. I have 1st year Daisies and so we will be Daisies again next year. The group I have now will earn all of the petals this year, but I expect to get new girls next year and they will earn the petals and it will be a review for the 2nd year girls. At this age, I think they need a review, because it is hard for them to remember all of the petals and what they mean.

Kelly

 

[amez]

Most of my girls earned their petels last year. Even if they missed a meeting the leader gave them the petal, simply because we are saying the law every meeting and we refer to it quite a bit. We also bring it up at different points in time. For example we are currently doing a journey but something came up at our last meeting and so we talked a few minutes again about being considerate and caring. The Journey books are good about saying "here's a chance to talk about being caring and considerate like Zinni the flower"

I had one new daisy come in this year and I loaned her mom a daisy book and told her to go through it with her daughter so she was familiar with it. With fun patches if a girls misses it, she just misses it. Girls have different fun patches - it's no big deal. Even as this age they will talk about what they did to get one. For example my dd has one from girls scouts night at a hockey game. No one else in her troop has it because we went on our own to do it. Other girls have different ones too. As a troop we did a pet care class that was only one night--so just the girls who were there got the patch for that. We also collected items for and visited the humane society. Every girl in the troop got a patch for that--simply because there were many ways to particpate--as a group one night we discussed what items to collect and how it would help the animals, we collected the items on other nights and visited the humane society another day. All the girls particpated even those who couldn't come to the humane society that day so they all got a badge.

Amy

 

[karemore]

It shouldn't really be a big deal if a girl misses an activity for a petal. Since the petals represent the Girl Scout Law, they should all be ongoing, not a one time deal.

I like the idea of doing a review of all the petals already earned, I keep meaning to do something like that but each meeting we run out of time.

We just learned that we will be able to camp this year, they added a special training class at our local council office for indoor overnight. We won't be allowed to cook over a fire, but we can bring along picnic items and spend the night in a cabin. I'm nervous and excited. It's a Peter Pan theme with a treasure hunt and fairy activities in addition to all the regular camping type activities.

Cookies sales start this friday. And we do have a booth sale in March, three hours at the mall.

We have a father daughter event coming up this month, we've been invited to participate in the Pinewood derby. DH and DD made their car last weekend and look forward to racing it in a couple weeks.

We have a bunch of stuff coming up with our community, Thinking Day, a fundraiser at Friendlys, and ice cream social, leader dinner, camping, and then the Bridging ceremony.

DD and I are really enjoying our experience with Girl Scouts!

 

[Suellen]

We had our investiture ceremony last night! Girls are all so cute! Almost without fail they all said they want to be a GS because it is fun! Except my dd who said she likes to be with her friends and one who said she liked selling cookies!

I gave them their certificates and my co-leader gave them each their daisy pin. They each ran to their parents to show them the certificate.

I just love being able to do this with and for my dd!

 

[mickey50]

Hey there,

I'm a Daisy Troop Leader too. This is our second year.

Here are some things we did the first year:

Had the girls bring their fav dress up and we had a fashion show.
Played ticks on the toliet seat. Look it up its cute
We made a poster of rules the girls came up with. (no secrets, be kind, etc)
Had a swim party.
Took donations for the SPCA and CAPS
Build Ginger Bread houses
Make knot blankets to donate.

Hope this helps and good luck. Feel free to contact me if you have other questions.

 

[solstice621]

We had our investiture ceremony last night! Girls are all so cute! Almost without fail they all said they want to be a GS because it is fun! Except my dd who said she likes to be with her friends and one who said she liked selling cookies!

I gave them their certificates and my co-leader gave them each their daisy pin. They each ran to their parents to show them the certificate.

I just love being able to do this with and for my dd!

Ours is tonight! Did you have a script you followed? We are just doing something very basic. I didn''t think about asking them why she wants to be a girl scout. I think I'll add that in

 

[Suellen]

All I did was call them up one at a time, ask them why they wanted to be a girl scout, waited for the answer, my co-leader gave them the Daisy Membership pin, I gave each girl their begininnig certificate and shook their hand. Once we went through each one of them I had them stand, face their parents and we all recited the Daisy Promise.

I also had a little zip lock bag for each of them with their daisy center and the patches they had earned, the cookie sale pin, and the pizza party patch from a few weeks ago.

Then we had cake that one of the moms made with the Daisy on it. Each of the girls went and had their pictures taken with mom and dad and chatted with them. The girls were so excited to have parents and sibs there.

I did also bring my iron and we ironed on the daisy center and the two petals they earned. that way I know they get on!

 

[amez]

Our next meeting is Thursday--we will be making our swaps, flag and poster for thinking day. Another parent volunteered to make our dish for thinking day-which is great!! I'm hoping I can give the girls their info and poster board and let them loose My co-leader is going to bring in v-day cookies to decorate and I told the girls they could bring in cards if they wanted too. I've got to head out today and buy our supplies-

 

[LisaNJ25]

Our next meeting is Thursday--we will be making our swaps, flag and poster for thinking day. Another parent volunteered to make our dish for thinking day-which is great!! I'm hoping I can give the girls their info and poster board and let them loose My co-leader is going to bring in v-day cookies to decorate and I told the girls they could bring in cards if they wanted too. I've got to head out today and buy our supplies-

What country do you have for WTD. My daisies have Guyana.

 

[amez]

Romania.

What country do you have for WTD. My daisies have Guyana.

 

[Avonlady1001]

Romania.

We're doing Cyprus for Thinking Day. I emailed a GS leader of there (her email address was on the gs website). She emailed me back some great pics of the girl scouts in uniform. If anyone wants me to forward it, I'd be happy to! Just PM me your email address.

 

[mcbj]

Joining this thread! I became a Daisy leader this fall for my DD Daisy 1st Grade Daisy Troop all of the girls are first year as is my co-leader, we are having a good year so far learning as we go along! Some great ideas on here, thanks to all for sharing!

 

[solstice621]

...all but one of your girls are working hard at selling cookies? Every one is doing an amazing job with cookie sales, except one. And by that I mean, they have not sold ANY. And we have been selling now for a month. The family is great and there's no reason (financial or otherwise) they can't sell any. They just haven't. I feel bad even posting this, but I am wondering if some of our booth sales should go towards that one girl. She is not going to get any patch or incentive, plus our box per girl average is going to be low because of her. (I was hoping to get that extra few cents per box if our girls can average 170)

Just curious what ya'll thought or if you've run into this.

 

[LisaNJ25]

...all but one of your girls are working hard at selling cookies? Every one is doing an amazing job with cookie sales, except one. And by that I mean, they have not sold ANY. And we have been selling now for a month. The family is great and there's no reason (financial or otherwise) they can't sell any. They just haven't. I feel bad even posting this, but I am wondering if some of our booth sales should go towards that one girl. She is not going to get any patch or incentive, plus our box per girl average is going to be low because of her. (I was hoping to get that extra few cents per box if our girls can average 170)

Just curious what ya'll thought or if you've run into this.

Only if she shows up and works a booth sale. Otherwise I would not give her any credit towards any incentives. Its not fair to those that actually sold.

For booth sales I divide the amount of hours each girl works by the amount of cookies sold and than ad them to their totals.

Yes, I have run into this before and it stinks.. especially when that child will get the same benefits (with the exception of incentives) just like the girl who worked to sell 200 boxes.

 

[Suellen]

I agree! Not unless she shows up for booth sales! She will benefit from the troop money enough without helping.... I wouldn't make it so she gets the pin and badge. Maybe the parents will order a bunch to sell at the end??

February here is Food Pantry Month. Is anyone else working on this project? It can be done individually or as a group. So I put it out on our Facebook page to see if there is interest ~ but even if no one else wants to do it ~ i'll be doing it with my DD.

Here's my plan:

Call the local food pantry and see what they are in need of.
Find out if they can tell me what nonfood items families need that they CAN'T buy with food stamps.
Collect as many items as we can and see if we can deliver it to the food pantry and have a tour.

We also started working on an herb garden this week. We used this kit from crayola:

Herb Garden Kit

We started by doing the base coat of paint last night ~ next meeting we will decorate them and then the following meeting we will plant them. I know it is a long drawn out process but I want it to be something they are proud of so we may as well do it right!

I finally set up a secret group on facebook so only invited people can see it (i.e. the moms of our girls) it seems to be working good... except one mom is not a part of it!

 

[MamaOfTwoPrincesses]

Hi all
I've got two new Daisies who just joined my troop. We already earned "honest and fair" and "considerate and caring." Any ideas for "make up work" that they can do to catch up on their petals?

Thanks!

ETA: Never mind. I should have read back a page!

 

[amez]

Our Romania poster turned out so good tonight--the girls worked so hard on putting it together. I think the girls put together nearly 100 swaps--thankfully the swaps were simple we had half our girls out sick tonight!

To one of the pp -- the girl who hasn't sold any yet may just be a last minute seller. I really didn't start thinking about my own daughters selling until we had about two weeks left--pretty bad since I'm the leader and the cookie mom If she doesn't sell any hopefully she will be able to help out at a cookie booth.

I have 16 girls registered in my troop, but I've not seen three of the girls in months and months (two are sisters) - no cookie sales or anything. I'm not sure what to do about them--if they weren't a part of our numbers the girls in my troop would have a really great cookie average and be eligible for troop incentives--but the three girls who are missing bring down the average. I feel odd calling their parents and saying "hey what's up" I've kept the parents updated on all events and I don't hear anything back.

 

[Suellen]

I have one too. A non shower upper. She came to the first meeting and mom told me she only wanted to do it b/c her sister wanted to do it and her sister didn't get a troop so they weren't sure if they would stay or not. So she was at that meeting. Emailed about one she wasn't coming to because she was sick. Then about 3 more meetings went by and mom emailed to see if she could still come and I said sure. She has never shown or responded to emails since then. NO IDEA what to do! My big problem... since we don't get cookie incentives... is that she is the 12th girl in our troop making it FULL. What if there is a girl that WANTS to do it and can't because she is taking a space?

I think I will ask at our leaders meeting on Thursday.

On a better note! We got a BOOTH sale at Sam's club!! There are only 13 slots so I am happy we got one!! Yea!!