Sunday 9 November 2014

BINGO!

One of the Brownies created this Human Bingo game as a challenge for her Junior BP award. The girls had great fun playing and learning more about each other, although it took them much longer than I anticipated - almost 25 minutes!

Despite receiving the same instructions it was interesting to observe how each girl went about filling up her game card.

Most of the younger girls (7-8 years) found a partner, asked a question and if their answer was no, moved onto a new person. Whereas the older girls (9-10 years) would ask another question until they received a positive response. Some even teamed up to swap answers!



Human Bingo is a great ice-breaker to use at an event where you have a group of Girl Guides that do not know each other. Below is the game I have created to use at Guide events. Please let me know if you play this game or adapt it to suit your own unit!

Download as a PDF: Girl Guide Human Bingo



How to play:
1. Distribute a bingo card and pen to each player.
2. Players mingle with each other, asking other players if a particular box applies to them. eg. Girl A asks Girl B: Have you ever camped in a tent?
3. If the answer is yes, that girls signs her name inside the box. If no, ask a different question, until you receive a positive response.
4. Each player may only sign their name once on each bingo card. However, if your unit is small you may allow girls to assign their name to more than one answer.
5. Whoever completes their game with a different signature in each box must call out "Bingo!". This player has has won the game!

Saturday 8 November 2014

Australian SWAPs

This week a Guide Leader from Canada will be visiting, so the Brownies made some Australian themed SWAPS for her to take back to her unit. 

From the Girl Scouts of the USA website:
Swaps, the tradition of Girl Scouts exchanging keepsakes, started long ago when Girl Scouts and Girl Guides first gathered for fun, song, and making new friends.

In more recent years, some Girl Scouts describe the types of objects now preferred as swaps by calling them: 
Special Whatchamacallits Affectionately Pinned Somewhere.

The finished product. A cute koala made from felt with a laminated fact card attached.




The girls had fun giving each koala its own unique look.



The cards of random Australian facts.



Some of the koalas looked more like the rare but vicious Drop Bear, a predatory marsupial related to the Koala. 



A completed pile of SWAPS ready to exchange. Mission accomplished.