Hi ladies,

I'm looking for ideas for the girls (brownies, age 6) to work on for their "Brownie Girl Scouts Through the Years" Try-It. I've got a couple ideas swimming around in my head but I wanted to know what you guys did for it. I checked a few sites online and they had some ideas (not far from what I had thought) about but I wanted fresh ( Read more... )

Anyone in the Southern Cali area?

My girls and I were thinking about doing a drive to donate items for victims of the wildfires.

We just need a group contact in that region.

I grew up in a small remote town in southern Maine. Granted it was a tourist town so there were a lot of people during the summer, but in the winter it was just 250 people at the most. Somehow we ended up with a troop of 8 brownies, my mom was the leader. I still have a picture of that troop (I carry with my in my leader bag) from 1977 ( Read more... )

http://sbcbaptistpress.org/BPnews.asp?ID=25503

This is the craziest article ever, and really just makes me very happy with the Girl Scout movement.  my favorite section is where they talk about how Girl Scouts should be teaching servitude, and how it is an evil movement ( Read more... )

This summer I went through the process of becoming a full Girl Scout leader. I had some differences with how my daughter's former leader ran the Troop so I decided to just start my own Troop ( Read more... )

Do you guys do a newsletter for your troop or (if you still in a troop) does your leader do a newsletter for you ( Read more... )

So our Service Unit leader has asked who would like to put on an event. I am really thinking about it.  I want to do a class on swaps. I don't know about in other areas but around here doing and trading SWAPS are almost dead ( Read more... )

http://scouts.elysiumgates.com/daisy/dl1.html

I thought everyone might enjoy this.

hope anyone and everyone who went to the sing along yesterday had fun. though i live barely 20minutes away, i was unable to go due to relatives in town. but the real reason behind this post is an article i saw in the washington post today. it was about the sing along but actually it's main focus was on older girls. it had a line i found amusing ( Read more... )

See you all on the National Mall, with 150,000 other Girl Scouts in a couple hours! I went to the last one when I was younger, and this promises to be even bigger ( Read more... )