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.

December 7th- Village Christmas Fair

Another bit of divine intervention as far as the weather was concerned- a lovely clear night which bought loads of people out. Compared with the following day-wet, windy, revolting. Phew!


We had a bit of a buying frenzy shortly after setting up with the Chocolate Brownies selling like hot cakes ( or brownies..)
We could have sold twice the amount!
The baby owls went too along with half the bracelets so we have some stock for next summers fair at Newman Collard.


Some of the Brownies had practical maths lessons working out what change to give people! they all worked very hard when they were helping!
We took a very impressive £100!!! 


The Petersfield Herald took our photo so watch out for it in next weeks paper.
Here are some photos...

Thank you to everyone who baked brownies for our stall- you are stars!

I've got some other pics in a portrait format but cannot seem to rotate them!

These will have to do for now. if I suss it out I'll post them soon!

Have a great Christmas everyone and see you on 12th January.

The real 24th November!

First, a catch up from last week having failed to post anything at all!
Last week we enrolled 5 new Brownies!
Jessica, Emily, Amy, Louisa and Abigail. They all said their promises perfectly and although I made a 'pond' as part of the ceremony, I forgot to use it until a Brownie helpfully reminded me! So we 'twisted them and turned them' all at the end!

We made  a start on our bracelets that we will be trying to sell on the stall at the Liss Christmas Village fair next Weds.


This week- Thursday 1st December


We were joined by two lovely girls, Lucy and Emma from Bohunt School who are working towards their DOE awards. They'll be helping us each week from January for 3 months!


After a quick catch up with the Home Skills Badge because some of the girls were away when we did stuff a few weeks ago, we went on to making bracelets again to build up some actual stock- the Brownies wanted to BUY their own bracelets so we had to make more!

Christmas presents were handed out- some gorgeous handmade owls by Mrs Stemp, Abigails Mum. What about these then?!

I love them!

I promoted several Brownies to Sixers and Seconders for next term and presented the leavers, Anna, Molly and Kayleigh with a badge, certificate and a small gift to say goodbye.
In the chaos of all that excitement- we forgot to do Brownie Bells and say goodbye properly.
Goodbye!
I'll do a post next weekend with pics of the Christmas fair stall and let you know how much we raised.


Ps Thanks Mrs Park who helped out last night!

24th November

Tawny Owl was off sick with 'The Virus' ( evil and nasty) but luckily Jenny Edmondson helped out.
We had 4 'stations'- recycling, shoe polishing, Laundry care and buttons for the blind-all part of the 'Home-skills' badgework.
It was pretty full-on this week and I could have sworn it was a full moon or something as the girls were bouncing off the walls with energy.
As a result I didn't take any photos.
Bringing my camera to the meeting may have helped....


7 girls were off with various obligations here and there so we will be doing a 'catch-up' session this Thursday and then they can get their badges on our final meeting (1st Dec)


Next week we will be enrolling 5 Brownies and starting our bracelet making project a bit early which seems wise.
I'll be sending home plates and wrapping for Choc brownies on Thursday!
Get your recipes at the ready...

More Remembrance pics