Girl Scouting in the USA

Girl Scout handshake

We opened our first meeting as Junior Juliettes with a quick recap of Girl Scout history, traditions, and songs -all part of earning our Girl Scouting in the USA badge.  We were able to complete four of the six activities to earn our badge -1,2,4 & 7.  All that is left is to start our Journey and for the girls to plan our next ceremony.

We also delved into what it means to be a Junior Girl Scout and chose the journey we want to complete on the way to earning our bronze award.  Our choice was unanimous - It's Your Story Tell It.  We will start this in December when it is released!

Penguins Unite!

Girl Scout promise and law cootie catchers

Magic balancing butterflies

Toymaker

What do you do when it is a balmy 105 degree August day? Making super cool balancing butterflies seemed like a good idea!

Sarah and Miriam used watercolor paper to give the butterflies their required weightiness and watercolors to make them beautiful.

Now that the butterflies have their color, all that is left is to weight them with a few coins to create the balancing magic.

Tada! Beautiful balancing butterflies that just happen to meet the requirements for activity 1 (It's Your Design) of the Toymaker badge.

Highway to Health (activities 5 & 8)

Highway to Health

Saturday was a good day to bring Miriam into the granola bar making fold.  Making this healthy snack  was step one toward earning the Highway to Health badge.

completing activity 5 - eating on the run

finished and very yummy!

Miriam also tried her hand at activity 8 - Mirror Mirror.  The result...

 Well, the aluminum foil mirror isn't very reflective, but the affirmation is nice.

Mirror Mirror, in my hand,

I want to be the healthiest 

in the land.

To live the life that is good for me,

I will tell you what's the key.

One Way I am healthy is (getting exercise at Tae Kwon Do).

What is one thing that you do for yourself that is healthy?

National Dance Day - global dance party!

Dance

Did you know that July 31st is National Dance Day?  Well, that's today, so if you aren't dancing now then you should find some great music and start moving your feet.

Miriam and Breier spent the morning dancing and completing activity 10 -Dance Party- of the Dance badge.  I suspect that the rest of the troop will get into the Dance Party action the evening of August 11th ;)

Art to Wear

Art to Wear

Sunday's needlecraft activities led to a headband embroidery project that helped Miriam meet two requirements for the Art to Wear badge - #2 Fashion Friendship and #6 Fashion Add-ons.  It turns out needlecraft is addictive and a great solution to attacks of restlessness and boredom :)

Miriam's first headband creation.

 butterfly for Breier

Folk arts badge

embroidery

Today turned out to be craft day in the Galan house.  Miriam tried her hand at embroidery and learned six different stitches - in and out, weave, couching, whip, cross, and satin.  We discovered that this activity meets requirement #5 Traditional Art of the Folk Arts badge.

Folk Arts

Here is a little history of the art of embroidery from the American Needlepoint Guild:
A Quick Run Through History, Part 1 - by Chottie Alderson
A Quick run Through History, Part 2

We worked with this Simple Embroidery book and it was really easy to use.

If you want to try out embroidery, here are some helpful free videos at needlenthread.com.

Have fun! We did :)

Badges, badges everywhere

small craft

making it matter

sky search

Besides being a lot of fun, two weeks at camp (Owl Prowl and Harriet Potter) definitely gave Miriam a boost with badge earning :)  She also earned her safe boating certificate.