Daisies: Extra Events

Our first year "Extra Events" included some of the following:

1. Story teller @ the library
2. The Nutcracker
3. Cookie Rally
4. Investiture
5. World Thinking Day
6. Firestation Visit
7. Meeting with a Brownie Troop
8. Ingathering/Camporee
9. Braves Game
10. Medieval Times
11. Camp
12. Service Activity for Homeless
13. Bridging Ceremony

Year 1 Daisies, Schedule

For our first year as Daisies, we came up with a fairly simple schedule. We meet two days a month for 1 hour each meeting. We use one meeting/month to focus on earning a badge, and one meeting/month to focus on something else we want to do.

Typically there is one "extra" event / month. This may be a service unit hosted event (cookie rally, thinking day, camporee) or it may just be something fun the girls want to do (zoo, park, theme park, etc.)

We have two ceremonies/year: investiture and bridging.

A troop meeting goes as follows:

1. Winding down time for first five minutes or so - could be a song, a coloring page, jump rope, whatever.
2. Collect dues (dues are not required, but girls pay $2/visit as they can - this was essential as we were a starting troop because we hadn't earned any cookie money yet.)
3. Pledge of Allegiance, Girl Scout Promise, Girl Scout Law
4. Snack
5. Do activities related to badge that is being earned (for our first year we are earning our petals and leaves.)
6. Wrap up with any business that needs to be discussed.
7. Clean up.