First Junior Girl Scout Meeting

It seems I get quite a few hits on Girl Scout Meeting Ideas, so, since our girls have bridged to Juniors, I thought I would continue to share what we have been doing at our meetings.  I hope these posts help you.

It's difficult planning a first meeting.  You know the girls will all be excited to see one another and will all have a lot to tell everyone.   We decided to make this a fun meeting for the girls.

Our meeting is one hour long without snack.

Our opener (when the girls start filing in) is to have the girls fill out a note card with three ideas of what they did over the summer.

We started the meeting off with our pledge, promise, law and attendance.

We went around and had each girl share just one of the fun things she did over the summer (we only have an hour, and if we let them, the girls will talk and talk).

Then we moved into the fun part of our meeting.  We had the girls make Duct Tape purses using empty Girl Scout cookie boxes.  Yes, we saved these from the previous years  We used these when the girls were younger with some of their financial badges.  We thought we would do a craft with them and the girls can use them as a purse or a place to store their Girl Scout treasures.

We purchased several rolls of duct tape.  We told the parents (prior to the meeting) that the girls can bring in their favorite duct tape for this project.

While the girls were covering their boxes and making little designs, we discussed the badges that we were going to earn during our two years as Juniors.  The girls were excited about all of them (I think they would have been happy if we started them all right then and there!).  We then discussed the Bronze Award that we would be earning during these two years.  How it's a two year project and that it's the highest honor a Junior Girl Scout can achieve.  We gave examples (ideas) of what other girls have done and a few suggestions that they might want to do for their award.  We told them to think about what they would like to do (our girls pretty much knew what they wanted to do, but, we said to think a little more and we will discuss and decide at the next meeting).

Here is one of the duct tape boxes.  Bella used white duct tape so she could use a dry erase marker on it, so there is a little green tint to it.

And, there you have it.  A quick, easy meeting that's informative and fun!