Christmas Fair 5th December

We had a brilliant cold but clear night and sold all our delicious chocolate brownies.
We also sold a lot of handmade lavender bags made by Abigail's mum and Nan which raised even more. We made a total of £147.00 which is a record!
Well done all.

The following day was our last meeting. We decorated hand made Christmas cakes with lovely vintage style ribbon and gingerbread biscuits.
We wrapped them in cellophane and made them look pretty. A perfect gift for someone nice!

We have now finished for Christmas but will meet again on 10th January. 

11th November 2012

My its been a long time since I updated this and that's because I forgot how to sign in. Ha!Unbelievable what being Brown Owl can do to your brain..

Since The summer we have been busy.
15 girls went to PGL in Hindhead for an action packed weekend of adventure and here's the evidence!

We actually took loads of pictures but it will take some time to load up so that's a project we are working on.
We then decided to have a Jumble sale in the Village Hall and managed to raise £230 which considering the poor turnout, was fantastic.
We had some lovely donated items and the best part was it was all taken away for us afterwards except the books which I sold to the Petersfield Book Shop.

This term we are working towards our Toymaker badge and will attempt sewing!
We are asking for extra help because, we will need it.

On top of Butser Hill on Sept 27th for 'Out and About' badge

Louisa and Ella on the Challenge Course

Doing the Sensory Trail at PGL

Later on this month we will be doing our usual stall at the Christmas fair selling chocolate brownies and other goodies....and I promise, that I will do my best, to update this Blog, to keep you informed and to keep the Brown Owl Law.

28th June 2012

We were so lucky that we had a dry and sunny evening for our magical trip to Chapel Common in Rake.
The girls did a 'Scavenger Hunt' looking for all sorts of twigs, leaves and prickly things and then took advantage of the dens that mystery people had made amongst the birch trees.
They improved them by adding more sticks and bracken and would probably have been happy to spend the night out there! They seemed happy to be running freely outside after months of being cooped up.
We were happy too letting them choose their own fun.

...looking for items on the list

Flower Festival and Scarecrow Trail- 21st June

We had a lovely meeting playing with and arranging flowers for the St Mary's Church Flower Festival. We had a windowsill to decorate and each six made a gorgeous display in a small jar and Abigail's Nanna put together a wonderful display with help from Sophie and Megan.
With all the leftover flowers, the Brownies made a hand tied posy to take home for mum.

Our Brownie scarecrow which will be getting wet and blown about, is up and standing to attention outside the 
hut.

May Fayre May 26th

What a long, hot day but great weather!
We had a good stall this year selling lovely crafty handmade items from Liz Stemp which sold like hot cakes.
We had some very good guesses at the weight of the fruit and veg basket which was very full and you could only just lift it!
Gina Logan won in the end, a very close call.
Lots of little ones took advantage of our 'make a crown' activity to get out of the sun so all in all, a great day.
It was busy and the girls worked hard, taking it in turns to sell.


This week is our last meeting for a few weeks and we'll be enrolling our Tweenies at our Jubilee tea party.

19th May

Apologies for the lack of posts recently - It's been a busy time and no decent photos to share.

 

Last week we painted some jubilee style bunting- one piece each which we will string together this week and put up.


We also discussed how we were going to build our scarecrows for the scarecrow festival in June- we have lots of work to do as the girls decided to do one for each six!
It finally stopped raining so we got outside for a much needed game- we played Port, Starboard which was a hit and they begged us to keep goingagain and again!


SATURDAY 19th MAY


The Re-scheduled Car Boot Sale took place at West Liss Rec ( very handy, just outside the hut) and we had tons of things to sell thanks to all the donations- we made £97.40! astonishing! Well done to all that helped.

29th April

What a month! It's the wettest drought I've ever known...


We'd planned all sorts of outside activities after a winter of being cooped up in the hut, but that wasn't going to happen with this weather.
We cobbled together a meeting which in the end was great- we learnt how to do a fire drill, did a quiz for our World Guiding Badge and played a mad 'Commonwealth' game which had them all squealing with excitement.
We also got letters from our Girl Scout Troop in LA which was brilliant.


We kind of knew that The planned Car Boot sale wouldn't go ahead. The Rec is so sodden and on the day, the rain just didn't stop falling so the council were forced to cancel it.
We'll do another one at the Cricket Ground or Rogate soon. We have items in the footballer's changing rooms which we'll have to move.
Ah well.
The vagaries of the English weather.
If I tell you that I had planned a BBQ with the Liss Guides for Thursday's meeting, you'll think I'm mad. But I have! Help!

22nd March

This was the last meeting of the term and the girls bought in unfinished craft projects to be tested. Most of them got their craft badges at the end of the evening. 4 new Brownies were enrolled and 3 left.
Emily's mum kindly baked us some cakes which will be her last as Emily left tonight as well.
We managed to get outside for a run around game for our World Guiding Badge work which we all enjoyed after being cooped up in the hut all winter!

                                                              OOPS- that's not right!

                                         " In and out the Brownie circle...."

  

More pictures soon!

A few photos from last week

1st March

We had half term and then had to cancel a meeting- that was going to be our 'Thinking day meeting'. Ah well, people get ill at this time of year!


So this week we played 'catch up' and managed to: Find out about our craft badge work, laid a table nicely for a proper english Cream Tea, prepared scones, whipped cream and made anzac biscuits. The Sixers and seconders wrote out a recipe for a scrapbook that we'll be putting together for our sister troop.


Mrs Goodyear kindly stepped in to help with cooking and we had a fantastic cake sale at the end raising about £15.00!


The best news is that some of the girls organised a cake sale at school for 3 days this week and raised a staggering amount of money which I will collect next week and tell you about. They did really well!


No photos as yet, but soon as they appear I'll post them.


NEXT WEEK: Yoga at church! Bring a mat if you can....

9th February

Last week we went swimming at the Taro in Petersfield which was great fun.


Tonight we were joined by the Liss Horticultural Society members Mike Boocock and Sharon Stratton who came in to judge the crocus plants that we planted last October.
Quite a few Brownies were off tonight due to school plays or illness so we had a small turnout of pots. However, 1st place was awarded to Isobel Davy, 2nd to Jessica Bryant and 3rd to Ella Woodhouse. They all got a small prize and a round of applause!

Next up, We made Valentines cards and bookmarks from the paper that we marbled a few weeks ago. It was an explosion of pink! Some lovely cards were made.

Finally, the time came for us to open our parcels from our 'Sister Pack' of Brownies in L.A!

There was great excitement as we handed out the letters and envelopes with goodies in them, the buzz in the air was great. We were sent instructions of how to make 'S'mores' - a traditional tasty campfire snack made with honey crackers, marshmallows and chocolate which we'll be making once the temperatures rise a bit. or a lot.

Half term means time to write back to our American penpals and give them a thrill upon opening their parcel like we had. Thank you troop 9915!

Back on 23rd February for 'Thinking Day'

26th January

This week we started working on our Craft Badge.
Part of the badge is to weave something like a friendship bracelet. Quite a few Brownies bought kits in and we had a good selection of threads so they divided up into groups and made a good effort. There were some lovely bracelets but I don't have any photos as yet.
Brown owl set up a table in the corner and they all took turns in ' marbling' some paper.
We had 3 colours, orange pink and red and the results were great.
We'll be using this paper to make cards in two weeks time.

This week it's swimming at the Taro Centre. See you down there!


Some more photo's of our dragon heads from last week...

19th January

Chinese New Year!
We got started straight away on making Dragon's heads. Each Six had a box,  loads of crepe and tissue paper and lots of glue.
The results were amazing and all very individual.
They took turns to dance to some Chinese music and had a great hoot by the looks of it...

A very industrious meeting and lots of shredded paper everywhere!

We even managed to take a photo of our pack for our American Pen Pals!

Two Brownies plus an Owl were missing unfortunately- Lily, Abigail and Barn Owl.

Next week we are going to start working towards our Craft Badge by making friendship Bracelets and trying our hand at 'Marbling' some paper- sounds like a busy one!

SPRING TERM 2012 - 12th January

Welcome back!
We had a good first meeting of the new term where we talked about what we'll be doing. I told the girls about our 'Sister Troop' of Girl Scouts as they are known, in Los Angeles. They were firing questions and seemed very excited to find out about their new pen pals.
More on that later.

We made New Years resolution stars and they had to come up with 5 things to work towards. without much prompting, they all knew what they should be doing - being kind to siblings, arguing and answering back less, helping with chores and all sorts. Going to know it sinks in, all our 'going on' at them...!


We were joined by our very helpful DOE's from Bohunt School, Lucy and Emily.
We had a good game of 'guess what's in the bag' and the Tweenies made things to help them settle in.
All in all a good night.


Next week its Chinese New Year- find out what sign you are!

I'm a Dragon. No really.