Monday, 19 October 2015

Beautiful People

After we completed session three (part two) of Free Being Me, we had some extra time, so we were able to work on the extra activity I had prepared.

Girlguiding UK has a great badge program called Go For Its! This activity was found in the Life Wise activity pack and is listed under the Wellbeing activities (pages 2-11), which align really well with the Free Being Me program.




The activity for Beautiful People is listed on page 2 and is activity number four.  The template is available on page 3. I adapted the activity slightly, as I had the girl's represent themselves, rather than an imaginary person.

Activity:
Create the beautiful person you are using images from magazines to represent your personality.  You can use any images except for those with people in them.

Here are some of the pictures that the girl's created. I think if I did this with older Guides they may be more concerned about staying within the lines, but the Brownies didn't mind. They really enjoyed this activity and had really great discussion about their personality traits!






Note: I ripped pages out of magazines ahead of time with images of nature, bright colors, animals etc. I knew the girl's would be distracted by adverts, celebrities etc. I'm glad I did, because they stayed on topic the entire time.

I definitely recommend this activity if you have the time! 

Thursday, 15 October 2015

Secret messages to make someone's day!

Remember those great 'treasure inside of me' boxes that the girl's made for the initial Free Being Me meeting? As we have completed the FBM program, it's probably time to show you what was inside!

Read the original post about the boxes here.


Here are some excerpts, to give you an idea of the lovely messages that were written.








I hope these messages give the girl's a pick-me-up when they need it and remind them of their amazing lifelong 'sisters'!

Monday, 12 October 2015

Leader's Only

 Campfires, bell tents, building, cooking, chatting, eating, sharing and laughing.




Monday, 5 October 2015

WAGGGS and World Centres

WAGGGS has updated their website! Information is still being added, so hopefully the program ideas that used to be on the individual World Centre websites will be added soon.

In the meantime, here are the current resources available.

Image credit: WAGGGS.org


And i'm sure that everybody has heard that our fifth World Centre has been named!



From the WAGGGS website:
The new name, Kusafiri translated from Swahili, means 'journey' was chosen to represent and embody the Girl Guiding and Scouting journey as we deliver trainings, workshops and sessions to our members throughout the Africa region.