This leader’s guide is full of information on how to lead young scouts.
Beginning of the Book
There are things like charts comparing 5 vs 6 year old scouts in physical, mental, emotional, and social fields. There are tips and tricks on how to handle Daisy level scouts. Help on how to plan a meeting (using the 1980s original program that had no badges) and what leaders need to do to be successful.
Here is an excerpt of the 5 Vs 6 years old charts and a summary of some of the tips.
The book gives suggestions on what to do for activities in the meeting. They break the ideas up into the 5 Worlds the 1980s program worked in.
World of Well Being
Page 57
- Several Safety Activities.
- Grooming and Self-Care Activities
- Games for Daisies
- Knee-Sit-Upon Circle
- Tail Catch
- Kim’s Game
- Hot and Cold
- Body Tracing
- Spot Tag
- Hopscotch
- Daisy to Daisy
- Clues (Like I Spy, but can be any object, not just what you see)
- (For an easy modern day print out of similar movement games, we recommend GSKSMO’s 2021 PDF or CYPSC’s one page directions)
- Familiar Games
- Bean Bags
- Bubble Blowing
- Button, Button
- Chinese Tag (Modern day it is called Tunnel Tag)
- Duck, Duck, Goose
- Hide and Seek
- Jump Rope
- Leap Frog
- Mother, May I
- Simon Says
- Stoop Tags
- Treasure Hunts
- Cooking for Daisies
- Practice selecting and preparing fruit (peel bananas, sectioning oranges, etc.)
- Tour a bakery
- Arrange food on platters to serve
- Making applesauce (Field Trip to orchard, vineyard, or grove where scouts can pick fruit. Visit a mill where juice is made.)
- Ice Fruit Cups (Field Trip for berry picking.)
- Other Activities
- Practice walking in a straight line (balance, dexterity, and confidence)
- Pouring liquids
- Kitchen Utensil Show and Tell
- Practice using Measuring Cups and Spoons (You can make a fun recipe, like Spiced Oatmeal Muffins, with lots of measuring)
- Teach Home Tool Safety
- Visit fire station or have fire fighter guest speaker to learn about fire safety.
- Make Family Puppets and play family with them – learn that families come in all shapes and sizes with a variety of fun and problems.
- Act out Different feelings, guess each others feelings by their acting, make up skits/draw pictures/tell stories/create music about feelings.
World of People
Page 69
- UNDER CONSTRUCTION
World of Today and Tomorrow
Page 81
- UNDER CONSTRUCTION
World of the Arts
Page 89
- UNDER CONSTRUCTION
World of the Out-of-Doors
Page 107
- UNDER CONSTRUCTION
End of the Book
After the activities, there are a few pages that define common terms used in Girl Scouts and the Daisy Girl Scout Story of Juliette Gordon Low.
The Badge Archive 