I just heard that our old Young Leader (who has moved to be an adult leader with Guides) is going to carry the Olympic Torch!! Can't wait to see it :)
FB
Tuesday 29 November 2011
Sunday 27 November 2011
Seasons Badge
At the moment we are working on our Seasons badge. We have done this before, but not with any of the current Brownies. Last time, we did Autumn - Kestrel made up a booklet and we had activities to work through. It went quite well but there was a bit too much reading for the younger girls, so this time we are doing things a bit differently.
Last week, each Six worked on a small booklet about a winter festival from a different culture. Each booklet had some information, a colouring page, a wordsearch or crossword and an activity. For Diwali, the activity was an acrostic poem with the word FIREWORKS. K was a difficult word to think of, Brown Owl and Kestrel couldn't think of anything but one of the Brownies from another six came up with Kaboom!! Perfect. The Rabbits were working on Chinese new year and their activity was to find out which sign of the zodiac everyone else was. We had lots of Horses, Brown Owl is an Ox and Kestrel is a Tiger. grrrrrrrr. They finished their booklet quickly so also made some paper lanterns. Lastly the Foxes were working on Kwanzaa and made a woven mat. When we were having a little presentation we found out that a lot of the Brownies had learnt a Swahili song in school so they sang it to us, it was beautiful :)
Next week we will be playing some fun games to do with staying safe in the dark. This time last year Edinburgh was knee-deep in snow and all of the Schools were closed. Luckily we haven't had any snow yet! It's very cold though. Brr.
Until next time,
FB
Last week, each Six worked on a small booklet about a winter festival from a different culture. Each booklet had some information, a colouring page, a wordsearch or crossword and an activity. For Diwali, the activity was an acrostic poem with the word FIREWORKS. K was a difficult word to think of, Brown Owl and Kestrel couldn't think of anything but one of the Brownies from another six came up with Kaboom!! Perfect. The Rabbits were working on Chinese new year and their activity was to find out which sign of the zodiac everyone else was. We had lots of Horses, Brown Owl is an Ox and Kestrel is a Tiger. grrrrrrrr. They finished their booklet quickly so also made some paper lanterns. Lastly the Foxes were working on Kwanzaa and made a woven mat. When we were having a little presentation we found out that a lot of the Brownies had learnt a Swahili song in school so they sang it to us, it was beautiful :)
Next week we will be playing some fun games to do with staying safe in the dark. This time last year Edinburgh was knee-deep in snow and all of the Schools were closed. Luckily we haven't had any snow yet! It's very cold though. Brr.
Until next time,
FB
Sunday 13 November 2011
New Sixes
Tomorrow night at Brownies we are introducing new Sixes! If you've been following my blog you will know that we hardly had any Brownies for ages, then we got a bunch all at once. We had two sixes with a sixer each, but since our oldest Brownie moved to Guides in September, we've only had one sixer, and 2 sixes.
So, now everyone has made their promise and we all know each other a bit more, we are going to have 3 sixes!
Foxes, Rabbits and Squirrels. The other Brownies who meet in the same place as us are the more traditional Kelpies, Pixies, etc, but we are animals! I would have liked a Mole or Badger six, but we already had these badges.
We're also re-starting INSPECTION. Every week at Brownies we have to make sure we have our hair tied back, have uniform on, wearing trainers or gym shoes, and have clean hands and nails.
Kestrel says that when she was a Brownie she had to bring a bum-bag every week with 7 things in it: 10p (to make an emergency phone call), a handkerchief (which can be used as a bandage), safety pin (many uses), notepad and pencil (to write important things down), a piece of string (for tying a gate shut?!) and an elastic band (many uses). Even now Kestrel usually has a safety pin with her, and it comes in useful a lot! Recently it was used to pin a decoration on to someone's shirt when it fell off, the time before that a lady's handbag strap broke off and Kestrel was able to give her a safety pin to fix it to carry home! Amazing. The bum-bags weren't very cool though.
We're starting the Season's badge soon, that should be exciting - I'm off to look up how to stay safe in the dark. It gets dark very early here in Edinburgh in the winter.
Bye for now
FB
So, now everyone has made their promise and we all know each other a bit more, we are going to have 3 sixes!
We're also re-starting INSPECTION. Every week at Brownies we have to make sure we have our hair tied back, have uniform on, wearing trainers or gym shoes, and have clean hands and nails.
Kestrel says that when she was a Brownie she had to bring a bum-bag every week with 7 things in it: 10p (to make an emergency phone call), a handkerchief (which can be used as a bandage), safety pin (many uses), notepad and pencil (to write important things down), a piece of string (for tying a gate shut?!) and an elastic band (many uses). Even now Kestrel usually has a safety pin with her, and it comes in useful a lot! Recently it was used to pin a decoration on to someone's shirt when it fell off, the time before that a lady's handbag strap broke off and Kestrel was able to give her a safety pin to fix it to carry home! Amazing. The bum-bags weren't very cool though.
We're starting the Season's badge soon, that should be exciting - I'm off to look up how to stay safe in the dark. It gets dark very early here in Edinburgh in the winter.
Bye for now
FB
Sunday 6 November 2011
Happy Halloween
Dooking for Apples
Pumpkin Bowling
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGGHHHH!
Spooky Brownies and Merlin's little Rainbow!
Friday 14 October 2011
"Best night at Brownies EVER"
FOOD NIGHT!
This week, we decorated biscuits and made cocktails, mmmmmmmm.
WE also played Port and Starboard, we haven't done that for ages, and our newest
Brownie was enrolled - we now have 13 Brownies, all enrolled! This is great
news because this time last year we only had 3 and were thinking about having
to close the unit
That's all I have to say... Brownies are on October holidays for the next 2
weeks and when we get back it's Halloween :)
Friday 7 October 2011
Rugby World Cup 2011
Hello!
This week Brown Owl was away on
holidays, so Kestrel and Merlin were in charge of us for the evening and we had
the Rugby World Cup!
This year the World cup was hosted by New Zealand, so first we decorated
some Koru pendants. (From the guiding magazine). We then stuck these onto some
cardboard which Kestrel had cut into ovals, and made a hole in the top to make
them into necklaces. Very nice :)
We then split into 3 teams for the competition - first each team were given
their name (Italy, USA and South Africa) and we had to go to our correct flag.
USA was easy but we weren't sure about Italy and South Africa at first...
We played a relay race where we had to throw balls backwards (because
that's what they do in Rugby), and the 'Stop game'. This is one of my most
favourite games - each Brownie is given 3 counters (we use old smartie lids).
The Brownies run around, and a leader walks about the room. At some point, the
leader puts her hand up in a 'stop' sign, but doesn't say anything, and the
last person to stop loses a counter. After a few stops, the groups gather back
and count how many counters they have left as a team. The team with the
most left is the winner.
We also played the spaceships game,
where counters are spread across the room and as teams we have to collect as
many counters as possible and bring them back to their circle (chalked on the
floor), but we can only pick up one at a time!
Scoring is a bit complicated in
Rugby - you get points for winning, drawing, and extra points for all sorts of
things.. Instead we made it simple by making 3 points for the team in first
place, 2 for second and 1 for third.
In the end, South Africa and USA were joint second with 17 points but Italy
were the winners with 21!
Thursday 29 September 2011
Denmark
Hello Friends!
Sorry for the lack of updates, but Kestrel doesn't have internet at home
yet and she is the one who types up all these entries for me.
I've been visiting Europe recently... we had a lovely evening learning
about Denmark from one of the Guides - she went there for a big Jambourette in
the summer, and to raise money she was hosting theme nights and we each got a
badge from it.
So we learnt about what Denmark is famous for (Hans Christian Anderson, who wrote the Ugly Duckling and the Little Mermaid; Lego and Lurpak Butter). We looked up the country on our map and we can see it's not very far from Edinburgh really!
We also played a game and decorated some mermaids. It was great fun, and we
all have a new badge and I have some mermaid friends :)
FB
Thursday 1 September 2011
We are BACK
Brownies are back!
This week we were mainly working on our handbooks - a lot of our girls enrolled at the end of last term so we have plenty of pages to work through. Everyone came back, except from our old Brownie who is moving up to Guides when they start back, but we recruited a new girl who moved from one of the other packs.
Other than handbooks we played a couple of games:
A game to learn people's names - we had to go round the circle and say our name and something we like, and remember everyone else's..
eg. "My name is Brown Owl and I like Cats"
"My name is Flat Brownie and I like chocolate, this is Brown Owl and she likes cats"
We all managed it, and it was surprising the girls who managed to remember lots without help from the rest of us!
We also played Johnny Went to the Zoo, which is a team game - each member of the team has a name like Johnny, Mummy, Daddy, Elephant, Giraffe, Monkey... and a leader tells a story about Johnny and his day at the zoo. Whenever your name is mentioned you have to run and the first person back to their team gets a point.
We have lots of fun things planned for this term, including learning more songs. Our current group of girls seem to enjoy singing more than others we've had recently so we need to dust off our song books and get learning some new ones. This site has loooads of songs if you're ever looking for any... I want to try Flea Fly Flo!
Look out for me from an exotic location next week....
Flat Brownie
This week we were mainly working on our handbooks - a lot of our girls enrolled at the end of last term so we have plenty of pages to work through. Everyone came back, except from our old Brownie who is moving up to Guides when they start back, but we recruited a new girl who moved from one of the other packs.
Other than handbooks we played a couple of games:
A game to learn people's names - we had to go round the circle and say our name and something we like, and remember everyone else's..
eg. "My name is Brown Owl and I like Cats"
"My name is Flat Brownie and I like chocolate, this is Brown Owl and she likes cats"
We all managed it, and it was surprising the girls who managed to remember lots without help from the rest of us!
We also played Johnny Went to the Zoo, which is a team game - each member of the team has a name like Johnny, Mummy, Daddy, Elephant, Giraffe, Monkey... and a leader tells a story about Johnny and his day at the zoo. Whenever your name is mentioned you have to run and the first person back to their team gets a point.
We have lots of fun things planned for this term, including learning more songs. Our current group of girls seem to enjoy singing more than others we've had recently so we need to dust off our song books and get learning some new ones. This site has loooads of songs if you're ever looking for any... I want to try Flea Fly Flo!
Look out for me from an exotic location next week....
Flat Brownie
Wednesday 3 August 2011
Still Summer
I'm also really excited about Halloween because we didn't have enough Brownies for a party last year! Lots of our Brownies made their promise at the end of the Summer term, so we'll have some fun working through our Adventure books and hopefully have some interesting guests like Grandpa Frank, who came to talk to us about Elephants as part of our Friend to Animals badge (we did the Endangered animals part, which included making Milk Bottle Elephants and adopting an Elephant from the WWF).
FB
Monday 13 June 2011
Milk Bottle Elephants
A few months ago a leader at another unit told me about Milk Bottle Elephants. There's some excellent instructions at the link back there but basically what you do is cut a plastic milk bottle half way down, cut a semi-circle out of the bottom of each side, then decorate!
The Surrey East crew decorated theirs with tissue paper, but we decided to turn it into a 3-week project by first covering them with papier mache (newspapers and watery pva glue), then painting them, then decorating them with feathers, tissue paper and sequins. Circles of tissue paper make excellent 'hats'.
We're going to use them as part of our Friend to Animals badge. We're having a visitor next week who is going to talk to us about Elephants :)
We also enrolled 6 new Brownies tonight! It's very exciting because this time last year we only had 3 Brownies, and we're now up to 13 which is excellent. We invited all the parents, played parachute games and then sang a few songs.
Only 2 weeks to go until end of term - Scottish schools end for the summer at the end of June.
Bye for now,
FB
Tuesday 7 June 2011
Craft time!
What can you make with milk bottles and newspapers?
We painted them yesterday and next week we are going to finish them off, I can't wait, they will look excellent.
This week we were going to play jump the blob, which is the old favourite of a beanbag on the end of a string which is spun round in a circle - you have to jump over it and if it hits you, you lose a life. Some of our Brownies are really good at this game and the beanbag wore out. We made a new one but someone forgot to bring it to Brownies!! Instead we played a ball game called drop it catch it. In this game everyone stands in a circle and someone (usually a leader but sometimes a Brownie) throws the ball to Brownies at random. The thrower calls out either "drop it!" or "catch it!" and you are supposed to do the opposite. Seems easy but we usually have 3 lives each and it still doesn't go on as long as you might expect.
Two new Brownies arrived this week too! One moved from another unit, and the other just moved into the area but hasn't been a Brownie before so they are both a bit older. That's good because we have LOTS of new, young Brownies at the moment, it's nice to have a few new older ones. In fact, we are enrolling 6 girls next week - we are inviting the parents and are going to play parachute games outdoors, so hopefully it will be nice weather :)
I'll be back next week with some pained Elephants and some newly enrolled Brownies!!
FB
This week we were going to play jump the blob, which is the old favourite of a beanbag on the end of a string which is spun round in a circle - you have to jump over it and if it hits you, you lose a life. Some of our Brownies are really good at this game and the beanbag wore out. We made a new one but someone forgot to bring it to Brownies!! Instead we played a ball game called drop it catch it. In this game everyone stands in a circle and someone (usually a leader but sometimes a Brownie) throws the ball to Brownies at random. The thrower calls out either "drop it!" or "catch it!" and you are supposed to do the opposite. Seems easy but we usually have 3 lives each and it still doesn't go on as long as you might expect.
Two new Brownies arrived this week too! One moved from another unit, and the other just moved into the area but hasn't been a Brownie before so they are both a bit older. That's good because we have LOTS of new, young Brownies at the moment, it's nice to have a few new older ones. In fact, we are enrolling 6 girls next week - we are inviting the parents and are going to play parachute games outdoors, so hopefully it will be nice weather :)
I'll be back next week with some pained Elephants and some newly enrolled Brownies!!
FB
Sunday 29 May 2011
lots and lots of holidays....
Hello all!
Don't think I've forgotten all about the blog - we've just not been doing much for various reasons. Our Brownies meet on Mondays and there are so many Monday holidays in April and May that we've not been around much, then our leader who writes the blog missed a week thanks to Moonwalking related injuries and another one due to a work event in Crete! Lucky for some!
However, we have lots of new Brownies who are all working on their Becoming a Brownie book at the moment, we should have 8 enrollments before the summer holidays :) We're also starting work on our Friend to Animals badge next week (in Edinburgh we had a Victoria day holiday last week instead of the national Bank holiday tomorrow), so watch this space...
bye for now,
FB
Don't think I've forgotten all about the blog - we've just not been doing much for various reasons. Our Brownies meet on Mondays and there are so many Monday holidays in April and May that we've not been around much, then our leader who writes the blog missed a week thanks to Moonwalking related injuries and another one due to a work event in Crete! Lucky for some!
However, we have lots of new Brownies who are all working on their Becoming a Brownie book at the moment, we should have 8 enrollments before the summer holidays :) We're also starting work on our Friend to Animals badge next week (in Edinburgh we had a Victoria day holiday last week instead of the national Bank holiday tomorrow), so watch this space...
bye for now,
FB
Tuesday 26 April 2011
Vision 20:10 20/10/2010
We're on holiday this week, so here's some photos from the Vision finale which I promised to upload weeeeeks ago!!
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| We made cocktails |
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| yummm |
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| We decorated masks |
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| Look, there's Teddy |
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| It was a bit dark for good photos, but we learnt some dancing |
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| Just before the end, everyone was sitting waiting, but our Brownies were DANCING |
Wednesday 30 March 2011
Random photo time!
Hello followers!
WE've not had many posts for a while, first due to LOTS OF SNOW towards the end of the year, then we've hardly had any Brownies and haven't been doing much at our meetings other than playing some games. Well, we celebrated Chinese new year of the rabbit by playing games with chopsticks, games about rabbits, ate some chinese food and made rabbit tangrams. We spent an evening doing cross stitch and making beaded bracelets, made pancakes for shrove tuesday and completed our Computer badge.
You should look forward to more posts though because we have NEW BROWNIES!!! Brown owl sent postcards (which you can pick up free from the Guide shop) to the local school with our unit details on it, and word spread and we had 6 new brownies last week and another 2 this week! It is very exciting because we can play team games again! My favourite is pale pink pyjamas, and you just can't play it with only 3 Brownies...
Some sad (but good news): It was the last night for our Young Leader this week :( She's leaving because she is going to go to do her leadership qualification with a Guide unit nearby. We'll miss her, but she promises that she'll come and visit.
So, you can look forward to more regular updates again. My post about the Vision event has vanished so I'll have to find the photos from that again, I'll post that soon.
Here's some random pictures from the archives...
WE've not had many posts for a while, first due to LOTS OF SNOW towards the end of the year, then we've hardly had any Brownies and haven't been doing much at our meetings other than playing some games. Well, we celebrated Chinese new year of the rabbit by playing games with chopsticks, games about rabbits, ate some chinese food and made rabbit tangrams. We spent an evening doing cross stitch and making beaded bracelets, made pancakes for shrove tuesday and completed our Computer badge.
You should look forward to more posts though because we have NEW BROWNIES!!! Brown owl sent postcards (which you can pick up free from the Guide shop) to the local school with our unit details on it, and word spread and we had 6 new brownies last week and another 2 this week! It is very exciting because we can play team games again! My favourite is pale pink pyjamas, and you just can't play it with only 3 Brownies...
Some sad (but good news): It was the last night for our Young Leader this week :( She's leaving because she is going to go to do her leadership qualification with a Guide unit nearby. We'll miss her, but she promises that she'll come and visit.
So, you can look forward to more regular updates again. My post about the Vision event has vanished so I'll have to find the photos from that again, I'll post that soon.
Here's some random pictures from the archives...
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| Centenary Launch Party! |
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| Thinking day '10, making bracelets |
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| Papier Mache Loch Ness Monsters!! |
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