We’ve been working on pulling ideas for the different Daisy Petals and Journeys – but found that some have a ton of ideas and some very few. We have pulled from other leader blogs, meeting plans, and leader Facebook Groups.

Can you help us with more ideas to add to those petals and journeys that don’t have a lot of them? Share them in the comments!

Activity Lists

Honest and Fair Activity List
Friendly and Helpful Activity List
Considerate and Caring Activity List
Courageous and Strong Activity List – NEEDS HELP Requirements 1 & 2
Responsible for What I Say and Do Activity List – NEEDS HELP Requirement 3
Respect Myself and Others Activity List – NEEDS HELP Requirement 3
Respect Authority Activity List – NEEDS HELP All
Use Resources Wisely Activity List – NEEDS HELP Reduce and Recycle Requirements
Make the World a Better Place Activity List
Be a Sister to Every Girl Scout Activity List – NEEDS HELP Requirements 1 & 2

Daisy Petal Basic Meeting Plans

JOURNEYS NEED HELP

3 Cheers

1 – Yourself

learn about yourself and your troop mates and how we can take care of ourselves. What thing can they do without an adults help? Get dress, bathe, brush hair and teeth, make a bed, sweep a floor, unload a dishwasher?

Self care charades (acting out things like ‘talking to someone,’ ‘brushing your teeth,’ ‘having a dance party,’ ‘meditation,’ etc)
A yoga break station
A health snack station with a mini lesson on how different colors in foods provide vitamins for our bodies, plus a manners game that sort of failed.\
Learn to care for themselves (discuss what they can do without adult help – get dressed, brush hair and teeth, empty a dishwasher, wipe down a counter, set the table, make a bed, pick up toys, maybe even sweep a floor.)
Earn the My Best Self Brownie badge.

2 – Animals

learn about animals and how to care for them and what can they do to care for animals that does not require an adult help? Refill water/food bowl, brush fur, play for exercise?

We had a native animal rescue worker come and share animals, talk about domestic vs native, how to volunteer, etc
field trip to learn about horses, visit the animal shelter and learn about pets,
a veterinarian come to the meeting and she talked about basic pet needs, how pets are different than wild animals, and she touched on how pets are a part of our community and it’s our responsibility to take care of all members of our community, even ones that don’t have homes.
Talk about or have pets from home – Find out what they can do themselves. i.e. help feed the pets and brush the fur, dust the aquarium, etc.
Go to an aquarium and have someone talk to the girls about how they can help sea creatures: Avoid straws and disposable plastic. Don’t dump chemicals down storm drains. Clean a beach if you are near one. Etc.
Earn the Pets Brownie Badge

3 – Take Action Project.

This does not have to be themed to the animals or self care at all, but the discussion on what to do usually starts with what they learned. As long as you have a project that has a sustainability aspect it counts. It does not have to be big or complicated for Daisy.

presentation that they put together of what they learned. record it and post online to make sustainable
made a book at the end of the journey and presented/read it to their classmates in school during library class. The book can be left in the library so it can continue to serve
Making a banner sign to put up at our school along with a big box to collect supplies for an animal shelter supply drive. Scouts can make announcements in their classrooms about the drive. Make flyers that get passed out in backpacks.
making cat toys out of baby socks or paper towel rolls to donate to the animal shelter (to use or to give to new owners). Check with the animal shelter first as some cannot take homemade toys.
clean a beach
make a display for the school or library (ask permission) about what they learned
make flyers to hand out to people
paint storm drains (some cities have a program for this)
make a pledge to try and use only reusable plastics for a week and recruit their family to participate (have to have parent permission) with a chart they have to put a tally mark each time they had to throw away something plastic. Emphasize it isn’t a bad thing if you have to use disposable plastic. The idea is to reduce the waste by trying to avoid it and see how often you actually still have to use plastic. Being aware of how you live is the first step to changing yourself. So everyone in the troop should come back with some tally marks, and the point is to see where we all are at, not judge and make fun of anyone for having a tally mark.
making a book list on a specific theme into a book mark to share as a TAP.

Between Earth and Sky

Explore nature and learn how to keep the Earth healthy visit a park or farm, talk to a scientist, or make origami butterflies to celebrate nature.

Explore

monarch butterflies as the center
An aquarium you can explore aquatic nature

Feelings

Read a book like the Pout Pout Fish and talk about feelings

TAP

packets of milkweed seeds to hand out with an educational flyer.
park clean up day
make a video PSA or “host” a workshop as to why community service is important or why a shelter needs cat toys donated or why the park needs cleaning, etc. Each girl can say a line or two, or help with script writing or help with video/editing/posting, etc.
takes different books to the local “take a book leave a book” about the topic you learned.
plant a new tree

Daisy Flower Garden

TAP

assembled a standing rack for an indoor kitchen garden for a family in need
created containers for a container garden for someone in need
help with building or adding something a community garden needs

Think like an engineer

Point is to give them a box of supplies and let them go. You can use a picture of things that others have made as inspiration if they need it, but set instructions are a no go in the Engineering badge. The whole point it to teach them to come up with their own ideas and instructions with three different challenges.

Build a Fairy House

Pick an Outdoor Fairy House.
Construct gingerbread houses – have the individual ones they will decorate already assembled but have supplies for them to make a house in small groups – telling them to try to figure out the best way to construct them. They can use the pre-assembled ones as guides if need be, but start off with nothing for examples except their imagination. (If assembling individual ones, used the pint milk cartons. Wash them out and let dry. They stick Graham crackers to the sides and top with icing. They decorate them with candy, etc.) (For pre-assembled ones, you can assemble with hot glue and they hold well. They aren’t edible, but can serve as a decoration.)
Indoor fairy houses – building materials like marshmallows, toothpicks, sugar cubes etc in addition to graham crackers and icing to make a snow fairy house.

A car powered by air

a way to get across a canyon

Set some tables that are set a distance apart
Make two stacks of books a set distance apart
Get two boxes that are a set distance apart

TAP

help the scouts write a letter to the city for a new crosswalk or similar improvement needed in the community
donate a book about engineering to the school and having the troop sign their names on the inside cover.
Engineering kits to give out at a recruitment event
Set up a stem activity at a community event
make and pass out catapult and candy corn tower kits
constructing birthday cake kits for the local food bank
teach younger scouts the Engineering Process/Cycle and walk them through a challenge
new troop welcome kits for daisy troops, sustainable with online resources that could continue to be used by troops in the future
Build bat homes or bee houses for installing around the community
educational campaign (make posters, present to their class, etc.) to spread the information or a collection of materials (either make them or do a donation drive) to provide the materials

Note from The Badge Archive

Please ignore the typos and bad grammar. This list is what a rough draft of Activity Lists looks like. We

compile a list of ideas
look up websites that have instructions for those activities or crafts
organize the list to be a little easier to go through
eliminate any ideas that don’t have clear instructions or easy to understand idea
post it on the correct page in The Badge Archive page

Right now – we’re in the compile a list of ideas for the journeys. If you have a website with clear instructions – let us know in the comments!

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