Meeting Planning

Text Box: Sample First Meeting

Supplies:

Name tags•Refreshments•Marshmallows•Spoons•Punched construction paper•Crayons•Yarn glue

Time

Activity

Description

5-10 min

Start up activity

Have girls decorate their own name tags

5 min

Opening

Introductions, “I’m a Daisy” poem Girl Scout Promise and Girl Scout Sign

10 min

Sharing Time

Play game: Marshmallow Relay Players line up with a spoon.  On signal marshmallow is placed on a spoon and player heads for the finish line.  If marshmallow falls off, player returns to start and begins again.  First player to finish with marshmallow on spoon wins, or Musical Broom Choose someone to hum or whistle.  Girls form a circle  facing center and puts one hand behind their back.  A broom is passed from girl to girl as humming starts.  When humming stops, the girl holding the broom must leave the circle. The last player in the circle wins the game.

10 min

Daisy Girl Scout Circle

Brainstorm ideas for future meetings, snack

20 min

Program Activity

Read or tell the Daisy Girl Scout story (Guide for Daisy Girl Scout Leaders p 24), Girls do Daisy Girl Scout Activity in the Guide for Daisy Girl Scout Leaders p 25 or work on Daisy Girl Scout Activity Book

10 min

Clean up

Put things away and clean up room

5 min

Closing

Friendship Circle. For songs, refer to Meeting tunes on p 50 in Guide for Daisy Girl Scout Leaders.  Adults and girls join hands in a circle and walk toward each other from all around the circle, meeting in the middle with clasped hands raised.  Say farewell and walk backward into a full circle again, still holding hands.