Troop pictures

Troop 925 has decided it's time to make a yearbook, so we're looking to contact a printer and get pictures and info and everything all in time for June...We can do this!

Picture preparation has already started. All of the girls are determined to have the best group shot, which leads to multiple picture taking days:


923:

and 925:

Etiquette Party design

Well, it all started with a picture I found in the Mother's day issue of a magazine in the waiting room....

and suddenly, I needed it! I needed the vase, the plates, the rock candy! All of it!

I got none of it.

But isn't it pretty?

 This is THE BACKSIDE of mine ( my child-photographer makes me a little sad sometimes because she didn't get the pretty front display of the table......) but , points for intent regardless....


I spent the day making little booklets on Etiquette for the party, only to realize (gasp) that it's no longer 2010! (Did this party happen a year ago?) But the books were cute, the girls loved them, it kept them separate! haha






The girls made notecards to send out Thank-You's to someone special....a very important Etiquette Rule










And learned how to properly set a table and the rules for eating at a table (including cellphone usage!)

Look at that posture!

 We had one gentleman, perfectly outfitted for the evening!

And Imara won a prize for having the most stickers for the evening.

New Years Eve Bowling

We celebrated the coming year with a bowling Party.  I got the girls 'Happy New Year' Headbands and noisemakers, but the alley was so noisy that we certainly didn't need those! They had a great night eating pizza and drinking soda and pretending to bowl.

Please also enjoy the faux 'professional bowling stance' pics I took of a few of the 'pose-able' girls...unfortunately, not all of the girls were agreeable to pose, so I only took a couple, about 6 of the 17...so I guess, not everyone will get a picture with their group shot...








The only thing that I would have preferred would be that they wore the expensive sweatshirts (or t-shirts) so that we could look like an actual group...*sigh* Instead, everyone decided to wear whatever they thought best, and we looked like a mishmash...I guess I'll have to start bribing them

At least they had fun.

Holiday Party

After much planning , our Holiday Party has finally come and gone! All I can say is 'whew!'

I really do need to get more parent volunteers, I feel bad for the children forced to miss events because they're off manning an activity. That be said, thanks to my child-photographer who took an individual picture of every girl at the party so that they could have a keepsake.

thanks, lady!

Overall, the girls (and 1 boy) enjoyed themselves...

They made ornaments; squeezing paint into glass balls and turning them upside down to drain the excess paint. After empty; the caps were replaced and ribbons and hooks attached.

Voila!

A finished ornament! A great addition to any tree!

They also made mats for Kwanzaa, by weaving red and green strips of paper into a sheet a black. A simple project to celebrate the season

The girls also colored icing and decorated gingerbread cookies. I was so set on traditional icing colors; green, red, white, maybe blue...but the moms got a hold of my gel colors and let the girls go to town with the colors choices, and I'm glad they did. 

The pink was adorable, as was the yellow, and maybe even the brown pants I saw one wearing!

and when it was all said and done, they ate them!

Overall, not a bad night, but I could not have done it without the parent volunteers who mixed icing and glued pictures; served pasta and cut paper!

So late with this!

I have not been posting as much as I should be! I am a bad leader! This year I have 3 troops and most of a full time job. I am also trying out side jobs...(getting my side hustle on), as well as working on my novel. Sounds like a lot, but I can do more! (I know I can!)

For the most up-to-date information; please visit the girls at our facebook page , that's where I put all of my successes. This is where I put all of my hopes and the disappointment when it doesn't work (Moms don't need to see that)

It's been a wild ride so far, I have a co-leader and then I don't, then I find a new one, who always says she can't make it last minute ...but here's hoping we have a working group now. There are a lot of new girls, the troop is on a complete overhaul, but it's great! I love new girls!

I'm currently planning a Scavenger Hunt to Manhattan, the American Museum of Natural History and am trying to get a grasp of exactly how many girls and adults will be going. We have two complete teams arranged so far:

Blue team

Purple team

The only thing is arranging moms to lead the teams, and convincing them to give up their daughters for the afternoon. (At  some point, the girls will want to be without their moms,and this seems like a good opportunity) I myself will not have a group as I made the questions and have been all over the site gathering information :(

The plan is to get the girls to take pictures with certain items in the museum (so each team needs to have a digital camera) and find out information on others. The first team that arrives back with everything complete will win a pack of movie tickets. I'm thinking about offering another group of tickets for best picture because realistically, I want them to go in there and get great pictures...so I bribe them.

Fingers crossed that this goes well

Corn Maze

Today we travelled to the end of the island again to visit a corn maze. We tried a corn maze last year, but the corn was barely taller than my head, and therefore non satisfactory! lol..This year we went to a different farm that was recommended by another leader; this one larger, and farther away! 


Four girls came out today (Really need to figure out ways to get more girls to go on trips) but these four had a great time. For $10 per person, we were able to go through the 3 different mazes, and a hay ride.

Diagram of the 3 corn mazes

In an effort to kill some time I allowed the girls to browse through the items for sale, basically gourds and pumpkins, a few squashes, nothing too exciting for them to ask for....

..actually, most of the items looked a little....diseased, although I'm sure that's the way they're supposed to look. (The visual status kept me away.)

We took a lot of group pictures ( I needed to update the picture for my facebook page!) and the girls got along really well with each other. For the most part they are not in troops together, so it was nice to see them get along with girls they're not too familiar with

I also took a bunch of individual shots, and will be giving the four girls an 5x7 (and maybe wallets) of their individual pics, and a 4x6 group shot. I figure if the other girls see what they missed out on, they'll want to go on a trip. These pictures will be handed out during meetings!

Troop 923 -Patch work

We had the opportunity to create individualized business cards while working on a patch. The girls thought it was all a joke when I asked them to design a card that they could hand out now. (Most of them used fake numbers and then 'corrected' their cards)

All of the girls were asked to take a standard sheet of paper and design a business card for themselves:

Handmade design

Computerized Version

Overall the girls really enjoyed the project, and the best thing, it was free! Made completely with products already owned!