Brownies Making Friends badge

Our meetings last one hour with no snack time.  We try to keep our girls busy throughout the meeting.

When the girls first arrive, we have them pick a popsicle stick (each stick has a girls name on it from our troop).  They were then given a piece of paper and wrote the girl's name (from top to bottom) and had to come up with something nice to say with each letter. (an acrostic)

example:

B eautiful
E nthusiastic
L oving
L ikable
A dorable

 We moved onto attendance, pledge, promise and Girl Scout Law (we are going to have the girls learn it but for now it is printed out on small sheets that we collect).

We did a little role playing.  First, we had the girls get into groups of 3 and had them introduce themselves to the other two.  Then we had each one introduce the other two in their group to each other.  < If they are on the playground playing and another friend walks up to them, they can then take the time and introduce their friends to each other. 

Next we gave the girls scenarios (we called them disagreements).  Example:  You are at a friends house and you want to play outside, but your friend wants to play Barbies.  The girls then had to act out the scenario and work it out nicely.  Another "disagreement" : You are playing at recess and you want to go on the swings but your friend wants to play kick ball.  We have a couple of girls who really are good at acting.

Our final fun part that the girls waited SO patiently for...make rainbow loom bracelets for each other.  (this satisfies the do a friends' favorite thing, share something with your friend and do an activity that is new to you).  We asked the parents to make sure looms, boxes and hooks were labeled with their child's name.  Not all of the girls have a rainbow loom, so some girls shared.  This was a perfect way to have a girl show another girl how to make a rainbow loom bracelet.  The girl who did not have one was then able to make one.  The girls then shared their bracelets they made with each other.

We ended our meeting with our friendship squeeze.