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