Girl Scout Way - Legacy Patch

This is for Brownies.  The Girl Scout Way Legacy patch.

We earned this patch over a couple of meetings.  I thought I would share a little about what we did in order to earn this patch and maybe offer a few suggestions, too.

This badge is to show the sisterhood, celebrate traditions and make the world a better place.

These are the steps to achieve the Girl Scout Way patch.

1.  Sing everywhere.
2.  Celebrate Juliette Gordon Low's birthday.
3.  Share sisterhood.
4.  Leave a place better than you found it.
5.  Enjoy Girl Scout Traditions.

For "Sing Everywhere" we learned several new songs.  I was only going to have them sing one or two, but, the girls insisted on singing all of them! 

I listed the songs in this post HERE so you can take a look at them.  They are pretty easy (and fun) to sing.

Luckily, for "Celebrate Juliette Gordon Low's Birthday" we were doing this around the end of October (JGL's birthday is October 31).  We talked about JGL and how she founded Girl Scouts.  We did two interactive stories.  We sang "Happy Birthday" to JGL and we celebrated with cupcakes! 

*If you are doing this at a different time of year,  you can celebrate Girl Scout's birthday (March 12).  You can talk about JGL and how she started girl scouts. 

For "Share Sisterhood" we wrote thank you notes to a (daisy) troop that sent us friendship bracelets and cards.
*another idea would be to make a gift for another troop.

For "Leave a place better than you found it" we had the girls write what they can do to have their room clean (most added a few chores in the morning).  We also talked about how to keep our meeting room neat and how it is important to clean up when we are done.  At this point, we learned the Tidying Up Song (listed in the Brown Brownie book)  A song from the 1960's sung to the tune of "London Bridge"

Weave the magic in and out, in and out, in and out.
Weave the magic in and out for we are Brownies.

We have tidied everything, everything, everything
We have tidied everything for we are Brownies.

The girls LOVED this song SO SO much that they kept singing it until our meeting room was neat and tidy!

Finally, for "Enjoy Girl Scout Traditions" we went outside for this part.  We played a couple of games that are played by other girls scouts in other countries.

One of the games was played in Sweden.  One girl is the bear who is sleeping.  The other girls stand around her and ask, "Mr. Bear, are you awake?"  (the sleeping bear ignores them)  The girls then yell, "MR. BEAR ARE YOU AWAKE?"  At that, Mr. Bear gets up and chases the girls (who run to safety) and tries to tag as many girls as she can.  The girls that are tagged become cubs and help Mr. Bear the next time around.

We also played a game from Africa, the Hawk and the Hens.  There are two safe areas (almost like running bases).  The "Hawk" stands in the center and says, "Come out little hens."  The hen's have to run from one safe spot to the other without getting tagged.  If they are tagged, they have to sit out.

We did this over two meetings (believe it or not).  Our meetings last one hour (no snack).