Still Summer

 We're actually most of the way through our summer holidays here in Scotland! Only 2 weeks left of School hols, which means are Brownies are back in just under 3 weeks. Our leaders are meeting on Monday to plan out activites for the new term - hopefully something good. I'd like to have a go at the Postcard Exchange and maybe we could do our World Guiding or World Traveller badge.

I'm also really excited about Halloween because we didn't have enough Brownies for a party last year! Lots of our Brownies made their promise at the end of the Summer term, so we'll have some fun working through our Adventure books and hopefully have some interesting guests like Grandpa Frank, who came to talk to us about Elephants as part of our Friend to Animals badge (we did the Endangered animals part, which included making Milk Bottle Elephants and adopting an Elephant from the WWF).

I hope you're all having a lovely summer :)

FB

Milk Bottle Elephants

A few months ago a leader at another unit told me about Milk Bottle Elephants. There's some excellent instructions at the link back there but basically what you do is cut a plastic milk bottle half way down, cut a semi-circle out of the bottom of each side, then decorate!


The Surrey East crew decorated theirs with tissue paper, but we decided to turn it into a 3-week project by first covering them with papier mache (newspapers and watery pva glue), then painting them, then decorating them with feathers, tissue paper and sequins. Circles of tissue paper make excellent 'hats'.

We really enjoyed this activity - we all got really messy the first 2 weeks with glue and newspaper and paint, and we had plenty of time to decorate this week. Don't they look excellent?
We're going to use them as part of our Friend to Animals badge. We're having a visitor next week who is going to talk to us about Elephants :)

We also enrolled 6 new Brownies tonight! It's very exciting because this time last year we only had 3 Brownies, and we're now up to 13 which is excellent. We invited all the parents, played parachute games and then sang a few songs.

Only 2 weeks to go until end of term - Scottish schools end for the summer at the end of June.
Bye for now,

FB

Craft time!

What can you make with milk bottles and newspapers?

We painted them yesterday and next week we are going to finish them off, I can't wait, they will look excellent.

This week we were going to play jump the blob, which is the old favourite of a beanbag on the end of a string which is spun round in a circle - you have to jump over it and if it hits you, you lose a life. Some of our Brownies are really good at this game and the beanbag wore out. We made a new one but someone forgot to bring it to Brownies!! Instead we played a ball game called drop it catch it. In this game everyone stands in a circle and someone (usually a leader but sometimes a Brownie) throws the ball to Brownies at random. The thrower calls out either "drop it!" or "catch it!" and you are supposed to do the opposite. Seems easy but we usually have 3 lives each and it still doesn't go on as long as you might expect.

Two new Brownies arrived this week too! One moved from another unit, and the other just moved into the area but hasn't been a Brownie before so they are both a bit older. That's good because we have LOTS of new, young Brownies at the moment, it's nice to have a few new older ones. In fact, we are enrolling 6 girls next week - we are inviting the parents and are going to play parachute games outdoors, so hopefully it will be nice weather :)

I'll be back next week with some pained Elephants and some newly enrolled Brownies!!

FB

lots and lots of holidays....

Hello all!

Don't think I've forgotten all about the blog - we've just not been doing much for various reasons. Our Brownies meet on Mondays and there are so many Monday holidays in April and May that we've not been around much, then our leader who writes the blog missed a week thanks to Moonwalking related injuries and another one due to a work event in Crete! Lucky for some!

However, we have lots of new Brownies who are all working on their Becoming a Brownie book at the moment, we should have 8 enrollments before the summer holidays :) We're also starting work on our Friend to Animals badge next week (in Edinburgh we had a Victoria day holiday last week instead of the national Bank holiday tomorrow), so watch this space...

bye for now,
FB

Vision 20:10 20/10/2010

We're on holiday this week, so here's some photos from the Vision finale which I promised to upload weeeeeks ago!!

We made cocktails

yummm

We decorated masks

Look, there's Teddy

It was a bit dark for good photos, but we learnt some dancing

Just before the end, everyone was sitting waiting, but our Brownies were DANCING

We had a lovely time, I hope something good is planned for the Brownie Centenary in 2014!!

Random photo time!

Hello followers!
WE've not had many posts for a while, first due to LOTS OF SNOW towards the end of the year, then we've hardly had any Brownies and haven't been doing much at our meetings other than playing some games. Well, we celebrated Chinese new year of the rabbit by playing games with chopsticks, games about rabbits, ate some chinese food and made rabbit tangrams. We spent an evening doing cross stitch and making beaded bracelets, made pancakes for shrove tuesday and completed our Computer badge.
You should look forward to more posts though because we have NEW BROWNIES!!! Brown owl sent postcards (which you can pick up free from the Guide shop) to the local school with our unit details on it, and word spread and we had 6 new brownies last week and another 2 this week! It is very exciting because we can play team games again! My favourite is pale pink pyjamas, and you just can't play it with only 3 Brownies...

Some sad (but good news): It was the last night for our Young Leader this week :( She's leaving because she is going to go to do her leadership qualification with a Guide unit nearby. We'll miss her, but she promises that she'll come and visit.

So, you can look forward to more regular updates again. My post about the Vision event has vanished so I'll have to find the photos from that again, I'll post that soon.
Here's some random pictures from the archives...

Centenary Launch Party!

Thinking day '10, making bracelets

Papier Mache Loch Ness Monsters!!

November already!

Hello everyone!

Very sorry that I haven't been posting as regularly as I should - you don't know how difficult it is to use a computer when you're made of card, I have to get a leader to type all this out for me, and Brownie leaders are very busy people I'm told!

Our Brownies have been quite busy too, although we've had quite a lot of nights off recently - our Brownies meet on Mondays so that means there are quite a few Mondays during term when we are not at school, so not at Brownies! We have been doing lots of fun stuff though. At the moment we are working on our artist's badge - making pop-up cards, patterned paper and bookmarks.

A couple of weeks ago we went to the big Finale event in Edinburgh's corn exchange! That was super-fun. We had a proper photo taken of our unit (with me and Teddy too) before we went in, then there was Bollywood dancing, mask making and mocktails/chocolate fountain for the Brownies before we all renewed our promise with everyone else in the whole country at 20:10 on 20/10/2010. I like numbers, maybe we should do our number fun badge in Brownies soon?

Teddy and I started this blog to try and visit 100 places as part of Adventure 100 - we didn't quite get there in time, but we've got the travel bug now -  we are going to keep visiting places, so stay tuned for more adventures!

That's all for now,

FB