I'm so sorry, i've been terrible at keeping up to date recently! We've had a few meetings since I last wrote, so here is a quick overview of our programme and experiences since coming back from Easter! We are doing the World Traveller and World Issues badges over this half term so we're 'visiting' a different country each week. 16th April This week was an 'introductory' evening into the badges. Here we covered the sections about going on a trip. We started the evening by making our own passports and including the type of information that would be needed and we talked about the different stamps you may get. We then split the girls into smaller groups and they were all given one of three different types of holiday (Hot, Cold, Rainy) and they had to plan and make an outfit for the trip... The difference? All they had were different coloured bin bags! This activity went really well, the girls really thought about their holiday and how they might need
I thought I’d written this post, but I obviously haven’t, so apologies if I don’t remember everything! The main activity for today was making Owls out of Creme eggs and chocolate buttons: My Owl didn’t stand up very well, I think it was taking a nap, but the Brownies’ were a lot more successful than I was! I know that the girls enjoyed these as I’ve heard on the grapevine that one of the Brownies has been doing them at home with her family! As our final activity for the term we challenged the Brownies in small groups to design and make a parachute to safely guide an egg to earth! All the groups worked really well together and came up with some ingenious ideas (We made sure the groups were split so there was a mix of ages in each group!) We did this activity with plastic eggs (Which I’m pleased we did, as I think there would have been lots of egg on the floor otherwise!!) And now it’s time for two weeks off. The two weeks will be spent programme planning, sorting things for Brownie Holi