Celebrate!

Hooray! This meeting we found out that we got our silver award! Next week we will officially recieve it and bridge to Seniors. All of that hard work finally paid off!
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Podcasts

We are filming!

This meeting, we worked on podcasts. Filming, that is. Last meeting, our homework was to write scripts for some podacsts. They are really cool! To see them click on the Podcasts tab or on this link: http://justkiddingjusthurts.blogspot.com/p/our-podcasts.html That is all for now!

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Activity: Peace Ribbon

In this activity, you will need a ribbon and a thin fabric marker or sharpie. On the ribbon with the marker, write a peaceful message and sign your name. Then get all of your friends to sign. You can hang it up on a bulletin board or if it is short enough, wear it as a bracelet. Here are our peace ribbons:

This one we all signed. This was done in sharpie.

With a fabric marker, I wrote the Girl Scout Promise.

~Alison

Paperwork

Today's meeting was completely devoted to finishing up official Silver Award paperwork.  We all finished writing around eight responses discussing what we did for our project, and how we felt we made a difference.  We answered questions such as "How did you reach outside the Girl Scout community?"  To that particular question, we answered... you guys!  All you readers out there, you are the ones who we reached out to outside the Girl Scout community!  We also presented our pro-peace workshop to kids at a local library, further getting our project out to those not in the Girl Scout community.  We are having our leaders sign off on our forms today, and then we are sending them in.  It's all really coming together; once we get our forms in, the next step is: Silver Award!  We're almost there, guys, and we're really excited!




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Activity: Tibetan Prayer Flags

In the Himilayas, along the peaks of some of the tallest mountains of the world, there is something like a clothesline, and you hang something called a prayer flag on it. And prayer flags are not only in Tibet or the Himilayas. I have seen them at my local art center, and Margaret has some hanging in her room! So lets make our own prayer flags! Many of the Himilayan flags have peace on them and, well, as you guessed, let's write peace on them!

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What You'll Need:

• Colorful piece of fabric (preferably something thin; see picture above)
• Fabric Markers (or Sharpies)
• Scissors
• String

Instructions:

1. First, cut your colorful fabric so that there are two slits on either end of the flag
2. Now, with your markers, decorate the prayer flag with peaceful designs (like the peace cirlcle or the word peace) NOTE: You can be even more creative and sew or just remain simple!
3. Now string your prayer flag onto the string and hang!

The Evolution of my flag:

     Step 1: I used fleece, which I do NOT recommend- use very thin fabric!
     Step 2: Sorry about the cut off- my scanner is only so thick.

     Step 3: Here it is all strung up! I looped the string around the slits.

We would also love to see your finished Tibetan Prayer flag!


~Alison

Second Presentation

We presented to a group of Daisy Girl Scouts today, and it went very well! Just like at the library, all of the children seemed to really enjoy our presentation. We actually had to stop one activity because the kids were having too much fun and made too much noise! We also sang a lot of Girl Scout songs, seeing as the girls were Daisies, the first level of Girl Scouts. We heard a lot of great vocal chords out there. We reall enjoyed presenting, and hope the kids had as much fun as we did!


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