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D/B – 3 Petals and Brownie Manners – Party Plan

Two 90 minute meetings!

Earn the Daisy Friendly and Helpful, Considerate and Caring, and Courageous and Strong petals.
Earn the Retired Brownie Manners Try-It.

Note to Leaders – These meetings fulfill the requirement for the Retired Brownies Manners Try-It. All retired badges can be earned and worn on the front of the GSUSA uniform. Finding retired badges might be difficult.
If you cannot find the retired badge to place on your uniform, finding an equivalent Fun Patch for the back of the uniform, or an unofficial badge that is in the same shape as the official GSUSA badges might work for your troop.

Meeting One

Meeting before Prep

At the meeting before this one…

Give each scout a Brown Paper Bag with their name on it at the end of the meeting to take home. Instruct them to put something inside it that they could show their Sister Girl Scouts to help the troop get to know each other better. Remind them it needs to fit inside the bag and the bag should be closed and not opened until the leader tells them to. Keep it secret for the mystery show and tell activity!

Items needed:

  • Printout of Table Manners Match for each scout.
  • Each scout should bring one object that is small enough to fit inside a Brown Paper Bag that tells others about themselves. Objects should be inside the closed paper bag until it is their turn in the Show and Tell activity.
  • Possible Props needed for ice breaker activities.
  • Printout and cut Good Deeds Flowers for each scout to take home.
  • Pen/Pencil for each scout.

Manners Match

Info Needed: Good Manners is good practice for being considerate and caring no matter where you are. But using good manners should start in your own home.

Action Needed: As a group, match the correct responses to the questions on the Table Manners Match pages.

(Daisy Considerate and Caring Requirement 1 and Brownie Manners Try-It “Table Manners” Earned)

Listening Show and Tell

Info Needed: Another way to be considerate and caring is to be a good listener. When you listen, you show you care about what people are saying. Do this by giving your full attention to whoever is talking. There should be no interrupting and when it’s your turn to ask questions, ask one about what they talked about.

Action Needed: Practice listening by doing a show and tell. All scouts should have a Brown Paper Bag, closed, with an object inside. They each take turns standing before the group and describing their object without opening the paper bag. All other scouts guess what it is. After the object is shown, it needs to return to their bag and closed up again so it doesn’t distract with the next show and tell object.

Follow Up Needed: After the activity, ask why listening was so important? What it difficult to listen?

(Daisy Considerate and Caring Requirement 2 Earned)

Movement Break (Optional)

Fun Activity: Learn the first part of the Princess Pat camp song. It’s a repeat and answer song. Listen for what to repeat and follow the actions for the song.

Plan a Party

Information Needed: It’s important to also be considerate and caring to those in our community. Giving service to others is always considerate and caring. Writing cards of thanks, congratulations, sympathy, or even just to say you’re thinking of someone is also considerate and caring. Spending time with others also shows you care and are considerate.

Question Needed: Who can you invite to join you in a party as a way to show you care? Grandparents, Favorite 55+ adult, Parents, Families, Siblings, Party at a local Senior Center/Home, Local Emergency Responders (if you know someone in the industry), Community workers, School workers, etc.

Action Needed: Plan a party to invite others (you only need one guest to show up) for the next meeting. Scouts must

  • Pick two snacks they have never tried before (courageous and strong taste testing).
  • Discuss how guest at a party should act and how the hosts should act.
  • Pick one new activity (ice breakers) they could try at the party with their new guests. Scouts can try a few out at this meeting to see if they would be a good fit for the party. They should keep in mind what guests they decided to bring – older persons will not be able to run around and younger siblings might not be able to handle some of the games.

(Daisy Considerate and Caring Requirement 3 Earned and part of Brownie Manners Try-It “Host Party” Earned)

Practice Party Manners

Information Needed: When you introduce yourself you say something like “Hi, my name is…” When you introduce someone else you say the person you are introducing them to first, then the new person. Then you reverse them. “Leader, I’d like you to meet Grandpa. Grandpa, this is Leader.”

Action Needed: Break into groups of three and rotate so everyone gets to play the three following roles:

  • Scout 1 – A new friend
  • Scout 2 – An old friend
  • Scout 3 – A friend to both

Scout 3 introduces Scout 1 to Scout 2. Then you rotate. Make it a little silly if they forget who is who while speeding through the roles.

(Brownie Manners Try-It “Meeting People” Earned)

Send Home Good Deed Flowers

Info Needed: Friendly and Helpful is the second line of the Girl Scout Law. Being Friendly and Helpful should first start at home. When we earn all our Petals, our Daisy uniforms will have 10 petals around the center. These Good Deed Flowers have 10 petals, ready for one of your family members to write a good deed.

Action Needed: Have each scout write (or get help to write) their name on their Good Deed Flowers card.

Follow Up Needed: Tell Scouts they don’t have to do all 10 good deeds in one day. “Fill up your Good Deed Flowers and bring it back to Girl Scouts to show off when you have all 10 filled out. We’ll show them off at the beginning of announcements whenever someone finishes all 10!”

(Daisy Friendly and Helpful Requirement 1 Earned)

Meeting One End

Scouts can continue to try out some of the ice breakers until it’s time to go home.

Meeting Two

Meeting before Prep

  • Make sure you can use troop funds or ask parents to bring the two snacks they picked in Meeting One.
  • Ensure there is at least one guest that can come to the next meeting or make an RSVP system that will work for you to find out how many total guests will come.

Items needed:

Welcome Guests

Info Needed: In America, a warm verbal welcome, or a handshake is how we welcome guests.

  • In Japan, a bow is a traditional greeting.
  • In Chile, a handshake and a kiss to the right cheek are customary.
  • In Fiji, a smile and an upward movement of the eyebrow are how people greet one another.

Action Needed: As a group, pick one method of welcoming, or decide everyone can chose their own favorite – and welcome everyone who is in attendance.

(Daisy Friendly and Helpful Requirement 3 and Brownie Manners Try-It “All Around the World” Earned)

Chosen Activity

Action Needed: Do the one new activity (ice breakers) Scouts voted for them to try at the party.

(Daisy Friendly and Helpful Requirement 2 Earned)

Taste Testing

Action Needed: Try the two foods the scouts voted to try for the first time.

(Daisy Courageous and Strong Requirement 3 Earned)

Cultural Etiquette

Action Needed: What we do in the U.S.A. is different from other countries sometimes. Use the Food Etiquette From Other Cultures to quiz the party goers and see what countries they think the facts match.

(Brownie Manners Try-It “Eating Customs” Earned)

Honor Someone Worthy

Info Needed: Lots of people are courageous and strong. We were courageous and strong by meeting new people, trying new foods, and doing a new activity. But sometime people do big things that deserve our respect. We honor those people by learning about them, telling others about them, and celebrating the fact they lived and did wonderful things. Juliette Gordon Low was the founder of Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. If she hadn’t done everything she could to get Girl Scouts started in America, we wouldn’t be here!

Action Needed: Use the Juliette Gordon Low Trivia Questions to quiz the party goers and see if anyone knows anything about the founder of Girl Scouts. It’s okay if they have zero knowledge before hand – they’ll learn some fun facts as the correct answers to the trivia game are revealed.

(Daisy Courageous and Strong Requirement 1 Earned)

Note to Leaders – Another person worthy of being honored can be substituted for Juliette Gordon Low.

Help Those That Serve Our Country

Info Needed: Another group of people that are courageous and strong are those that serve our country in the armed forces: Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines are just the most familiar 4 military branches most people honor.

Action Needed: Draw Thank You cards to send to overseas troops serving our country. Ensure that each party goer’s name is on the drawing with a simple message such as “Thank You for your service”.

(Daisy Courageous and Strong Requirement 2 Earned)

Meeting Two End

Scouts can continue to draw cards until it’s time to go home, but make sure they help clean up the party!

Tia Kennard