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Happy World Thinking Day!
This year our meeting did not actually fall on the 22nd, so we celebrated earlier in the week. I originally had grand plans to use the activities from the Living Thread pack created by WAGGGS, but as my meeting plan kept getting longer and longer, I decided to save them for later in the term.
Our meeting:
- Girl-led games
- Skip into Brownie ring
- Discussion about Thinking Day, B-P etc.
- World Centres game
- WTD Scavenger hunt
- Thinking Day (Captain's Coming)
Activity we didn't get to:
Crystal Rally relay race
Not using the Living Threads pack turned out to be a wise decision, as our concentration levels were quite low during the meeting and silliness factor at a high. Overall, a fairly basic introduction to Thinking Day, but with so many new members I'm fairly happy with how the program ran. Plus my Junior Leaders did a great job leading the activities and adding their own spin.
How did you celebrate World Thinking Day?
We used the living threads activities, but also added in activities about our founder Agnes Baden-Powell, and explained what really happened at the Crystal Palace Rally - about the several thousand Girl Scouts who were there, how most were officially and openly registered at Scout Headquarters, how the image of them meekly asking for "something for the girls" was a myth. The Guides were fascinated to see how the story of their origins had been distorted to produce an 'official story'.
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