GS Law Tea Party

November 24, 2023

Hold a Tea Party and practice several aspects of the Girl Scout Law. This can help towards the Daisy Petals and multi-levels may want to look in the unofficial Tea Time badge.

UPDATE

As of March 14, 2025 – This page provides an outline for activities to meet GSUSA petal requirements at a tea party. Troops must still plan the order of activities. Many have requested a printable, ready-to-use Petal Tea Party plan. We’re working on it, but we test all purchased plans to ensure quality. This will take a few months. Expect a plan by fall 2025. Until then, feel free to use this outline to create your own plan!

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Before the Tea Party

Invite a Guest Speaker to read “The Curious Garden” by Peter Brown or “Miss Rumphius” by Barbara Cooney and answer any questions on gardening or how they can help their environment.
Make a small gift or token (SWAP) to share with your Girl Scout Sisters at the party.
Make recycled party hats or another recycled party favor they can wear.
Make paper flowers for the center pieces of the tea party.
Pick out a nursing home (or something equivalent) that the paper flower centerpieces and cards the scouts will make can go to.
Make invitations so each scout can bring one friend to the tea party. (Keep in mind you plan for one new friend to attend for each, but if only one new friend from the entire scout troop may come, it still works. You may need to figure out an RSVP system to ensure you know the exact numbers to plan food and drinks for.)

At the Tea Party

Honest and Fair

Use Snack Trouble activity when handing out treats.
Play 2 Truths and a Lie.
Take turns passing tea and pouring it.

Friendly and Helpful

Considerate and Caring

Use table manners (Or Table Manners worksheet) and vow to use manners at home.
Learn about Do a Good Turn Daily motto for GSUSA
Learn the 7 principles of Leave No Trace (GSUSA Leave No Trace)

Courageous and Strong

Learn about JGL and use the Juliette Gordon Low Trivia Questions
Thank You cards to send to overseas troops serving our country
Try a new flavor of drink or new snack you haven’t tried before.

Responsible for What I Say and Do

Wrinkled Heart activity.
Use a kaper chart for who is responsible for what during set up.
Help take down and leave the place better than you found it.

Respect Myself and Others

Learn What is Respect?
Learn the Girl Scout handshake and other Girl Scout Traditions of respect.
Write Thank You Notes for the guest speaker.

Respect Authority

Decorate a Family Rules Sign.
Play Follow the Leader.
Listen to the Guest Speaker. Ask questions to show you listened and/or to show you are interested and it was important that they came to talk to you.

Use Resources Wisely

Energy Quiz
Wear your recycled party hat.
When you clean up, make sure you sort the trash into recyclables and non recyclables (bonus if you can do a compost pile as well).

Make the World a Better Place

Guest Speaker reads “The Curious Garden” by Peter Brown or “Miss Rumphius” by Barbara Cooney
Take the Paper Flower centerpieces and add the card and have them delivered to the nursing home (or equivalent).
Learn What is Climate Change?

Be a Sister to Every Scout

Play Culture Bingo
Learn about World of Girl Scouts
Share your small gift or token (SWAP) with your Girl Scout Sisters you invited.

Note to Leaders – the GS Law Tea Party is an excellent way to practice all lines of the law. We’ve listed activities that could be done at a tea party to fulfill all of the new 2022 Daisy Petal Requirements. You can sub out any activity for your own that fulfills the requirement it is replacing.

For ideas on what to replace an activity with: Daisy Petals – Activity Lists
(Troops who want to pick their own activities and make their own meeting plan)

Tia Kennard