First Brownie Meeting

As you know from some past posts, Bella is a girl scout and I am a girl scout leader.  We just bridged to Brownies in May.  With the start of the school year, we began planning our first Brownie meeting.

If you search "first Brownie meeting" you get quite a few ideas.  The majority of these ideas revolve around introducing everyone to the Girl Scout Promise.  All of our girls were returning to our troop this year and were very familiar with the Girl Scout Promise.  We needed something easy and fun to ease them back into back to our troop and our meetings.

For our first meeting we started the girls off with a "getting to know you" activity.  This was handed out as soon as the girls walked into the room.  The girls had to go around and find another girl that matched one of the descriptions.  This is a great ice breaker and gets the girls talking to one another and finding out a little more about the girls in her troop.  Each girl is to sign only once.  Leaders can sign too.  :)

Find a girl who:

Has curly hair
Wears glasses
Has an older brother
Has a younger sister
Has brown hair and brown eyes
Has Mr./Mrs.______ for a teacher
Likes the band One Direction
Went to Michigan this summer
Has more than one pet
Thinks P.E. is her favorite subject
Is wearing earrings
Takes dance class
Is new to our Girl scout troop

Once this was completed we had the girls move on to our next activity.  We had index cards with: What three things do you want to do this year in Brownies? on them.  We did a quick sharing time and let each girl share one thing from their list.  We also let them talk about one thing they did over the summer.

We talked about the rules for our troop.  Stressing the hand signal for quiet and respect for our fellow girl scouts.

Next we took attendance, the pledge and promise.  Normally this would be done in the beginning of the meeting, but, we had the girls doing activities so we could collect dues and get all the health forms signed. 

We used the Kubit to Me (I put a link to their web site, if it's new to you, check it out) game.  We put our own questions in there for the girls.  Some questions:  What's your favorite color?  If you won a million dollars what would you do?  Where would you like to go and why? 

We had time for a couple of songs.  We sang, "Make New friends (but keep the old)" and the "Brownie Smile Song."

Friendship squeeze and meeting was over.

Since this was our first meeting of the year, we wanted to keep it simple.  We knew the girls were excited.  We meet on Fridays and for some reason, they get pretty wild.  Today was no exception.  We try to keep them busy during the meeting so there is little time for goofing around.  And, they like to be busy doing new things.

Our meetings are one hour (no snack).