Jamborella Explorer

I have just discovered the most adorable clipart on the Girl Guides Victoria state website. 

Image credit: Girl Guides Victoria

Tweenie Booklet

Here is another discovery I made in my quest to organise our Brownies cupboard. This time it is a booklet for Tweenies - the name for girls before they made their Promise as a Brownie Guide.

I especially love the page for the Brownie smile. Such a sweet idea! I'll have to remember to prompt the girls next time we are selling Guide biscuits, "Use your Brownie smile, girls!"

Download the booklet here as a 13 page PDF download: Tweenie Booklet.

Clean up = new old resources!

School holidays are always a much needed break from the chaos of meetings, but they never seem to be a complete break for a Guide Leader. In fact, i've spent the time organising our Term 4 events, selling the last of our Guide biscuits (thank goodness!) and cleaning up the cupboards in the hall.

We have so many resources hidden away in boxes that I am doing my best to file, get rid of unnecessary duplicates and scan the resources we do have.

During my clean-up I discovered some wonderful old Brownie resources. The images below were found as individual pages that had previously been photocopied, so i'm not sure of their original source. A coloring book of some kind, perhaps. Does anybody recognise these from a particular resource? 

The uniforms are very similar to our current style so i'm guessing that they are from around the time Brownie Guides wore pale yellow linen shirts and navy blue culottes. So at least 20 years old if i'm calculating correctly!

I'm going to save these to use when we have a travel-back-in-time traditional Brownie Guide night. 

You can download these images as a PDF document from this link: Brownie Guides Can Do Anything!

Clipart

I love cute cartoons and graphics and wish there were more available for Girl Guides or alternatively, that I was blessed with the ability to draw! Unfortunately this is not the case, so I often use clipart from Girl Guides Canada as their uniform is similar to the Australian Guide uniform. Their pictures also show Guides and leaders participating in a wide range of activities such as camping, canoeing, craft, and first aid. 

Look at this adorable Girl Guide! 

Girl Guides NSW has a few new characters available on their online Leader's Support website, although you have to search through the pages to find them.

Here are some links for other clipart websites from other Guiding countries:

• BOGUK's clipart - Girl Guides UK
• Cherokee Scouting - Girl Scouts USA

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What websites do you use for graphics?