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Meeting #22: St. Patrick’s Day
Since I have been taking Irish dance lessons since I was seven, we thought it might be fun to teach our girls a simple step for St. Patrick’s Day. I brought in my wig, shoes and dress to do a … Continue reading
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Tagged Crafts, Guides, Holiday, Pinterest, St. Patrick's Day
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Passing the Torch: Monklands District Winter Camp
Monklands District decided to join in the Olympic fun with a camp of its own this last weekend at Centre Notre-Dame-de-Faitma. 47 girls, from Sparks to Pathfinders, and 9 leaders celebrated with great mild weather and lots of snow. The … Continue reading
Meeting #15: Sock Puppets
We’ve decided to work on the Heritage Home Skills badge and so our first activity was sewing. We tried doing some sewing last year, but it was a bit of a disaster. The girls had so much trouble threading the … Continue reading
Meeting #13: Christmas Party
For our Christmas party every year we tend to bridge with the other groups at our meeting place. While we waited for everyone to arrive, we set up a couple of tables at one end of the room and made … Continue reading
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Meeting #12: Christmas Carolling
Every year, some of the Brownies, Guides and Pathfinders from our district go and sing Christmas carols for the elderly. We normally sing a set of them in the basement for anyone who wants to come listen and then wander … Continue reading
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Tagged ASL, campfire, Christmas, Crafts, Guides, leadership
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Meeting #10: Peace Night
I planned a peace night a couple years ago and for various reasons never got to use it. Since it was remembrance day recently, we figured that this would be a good time to revisit what I had planned and … Continue reading
Meeting #8: Bridging and Reading
When we did our brainstorming for the year, some of our girls mentioned that they would like to do some activities with the younger girls so we asked the Spark leaders whether we might be able to do something with … Continue reading
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Meeting #4: Pen Pals
Laura, one of our leaders, has a friend with a Girl Guide group in Australia so we thought it might be fun to pen pal with them. We sent home an e-mail asking parents whether they would be okay with … Continue reading
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