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To be honest and fair ...
Present scenarios, like finding money on the floor at a
friend’s house, and ask girls to share their reactions. Fun
twists: have girls dress up in old clothes and role- play
reactions; make sock puppets and enact solutions in pairs.
Explain how following the rules in a game means a person is
fair.
Distribute snacks unevenly at a meeting (giving 8 bags of
Teddy Grahams to 12 girls, for example) and ask the girls to
resolve the challenge of being fair.
Use To Be and Been bags to reinforce taking turns.
... friendly and helpful ...
Try the Daisy Girl Scout Was Here card activity. This gets
raves from both leaders and parents.
Community service projects are excellent ways to be friendly
and helpful. For ideas, check out our website,
http://www.gscsm.org,
and navigate to Troop Programs/Daisy/ Community Service.
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... considerate and caring ...
Visit a senior facility (nursing home, rehab center, assisted
living complexes) to reinforce caring and considerate attitudes.
Check out http://www.colorasmile.org.
... courageous and strong ...
Invite a fitness instructor or Physical Education teacher to your meeting
to work out with the girls.
Have the girls sample foods they have never tried before
(please don’t imitate Fear Factor).
Give girls an opportunity to speak in front of others -- just
talking for a minute about themselves while everyone else
watches quietly is a major presentation for girls this age. Let
them lead a flag ceremony in front of parents.
... be responsible for what I say and do ...
Ask girls to draw a picture, then crumple it into a ball.
Tell them this is what it’s like to hurt somebody’s feelings.
Then ask them to flatten the paper back to its original state.
Explain that no matter how hard you try to undo the damage, the
initial hurt can’t be smoothed out completely.
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... respect myself and others ...
Most suggestions for this one involved eating well, taking
turns, caring for their meeting place and listening to others.
... to use resources wisely ...
It’s a good point to make when girls work on craft projects
that require glue, tape and other consumables. It also relates
to snack time -- not wasting food.
One troop has girls bring a mug for their juice at snack time
each week. This eliminates the need to for paper cups. (And yes,
they remember them each week!)
Don’t use food to make crafts, like macaroni wreaths and
potato prints. Food should be valued as nourishment, not art
supplies.
... to make the world a better place
This overlaps with considerate and caring -- they can make
the world a better place by being honest, fair, friendly and
caring.
Just about everything you do with your troop relates to one
part of the Law or another. Although the red petal is for
Courageous and Strong and the yellow, for Friendly and Helpful,
the overall Girl Scout program is more like a rainbow with a pot
of self-confident, resourceful young women at the end. |
