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Before telling the story, take a
banana (not too ripe), and using a long needle, such as a needlepoint
needle, and push the needle through the fruit of the banana all the way to the
other side and move it back and forth, making a cut in the fruit, but
not the skin. Do this every inch down the banana, making the holes
under each other so that they can be easily hidden by keeping that side
towards you! Then put a smilie face on using a black marker.
Tell this story to the girls:
This is Anna Banana, a new girl in our trooop. She wants me
to tell you a story of what happened to her last year. She went to
a new school, and for some reason, kids made fun of her. They said mean, hurtful things
like you look different from us, we don't want to play with you.
You dress differently than we do, so we don't like you. This hurt Anna
Banana's feelings, but she didn't let anyone know it. See how she
is smiling? She always smiled no matter how she was feeling
inside. But she wants to show YOU how she felt. (Start
peeling the banana, the fruit will fall into slices. - Explain to the
girls that even though someone may look like hurtful words don't hurt
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Items Needed: one balloon, blown up
Split the girls into two teams.
Each team makes a row, with the two rows facing each other, with their
feet touching the person across from them. The leader starts the
game by throwing the balloon up in the middle, and each player has to
try and make the balloon fall behind the other team.
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AS I SAY, NOT AS I DO |
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This is a silly and fun
game to break the monotony! Have the girls stand in a line across
from you. Tell them to do as you say, not as you do. Give
them a command such as putting their fingers on their noses which you do
something different, such as put your hand on your head. If a girl
messes up, she is out and must sit down. Do this until you are the
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CHAIN
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Items needed:
30 pieces of "food" (2x2 pieces, 10 red, 10 yellow, and 10
orange)
1 paper bag per girl
Before the game starts, sprinkle all the
colored squares in a field, hiding them a bit to make sure they are not
all easily found.
Tell the girls that they are being part of a food chain.
Divide the girls into 3 groups: grasshoppers,
rats and hawks. There are 3 grasshoppers for every rat and 3 rats for every hawk.
(example: a group of 26 girls would have 2 hawks, 6 rats and 18 grasshoppers.)
Label the different groups with different colored arm bands.
Hand each 'grasshopper' a paper bag which will represent their stomach.
Give the girls their instructions: The grasshoppers hunt for food first. Hawks and
Rats are to watch quietly on the side like good predators! Grasshoppers have 30 seconds to collect food in their
"stomachs". Then the rats get to hunt grasshoppers for
30 seconds, while the grasshoppers continue to hunt for food, while the hawks watch.
When a rat touches a grasshopper, it is caught and "eaten" by
giving it's "stomach" to the rat. (Then the eaten
grasshopper sits on the side and watches the rest.) Then the hawks
get to hunt the rats for 30 seconds while the rats continue to hunt for
grasshoppers and the grasshoppers continue to hunt for food. At the end
of that 30 seconds all the grasshoppers, rats and hawks bring their
"stomachs" to the side and sit down.
Tell the girls that there is "pesticide" in the environment. The pesticide was sprayed in order to prevent crop damage by the grasshoppers. This
pesticide is one that accumulates in food chains and stays in the environment
for a long time. Tell the girls that the red pieces of paper is food
that was sprayed with pesticide. All grasshoppers not eaten by the rats are now dead
anyway if they ate any food with pesticide. Any rat with more than half of its food sprayed with pesticide is
dead also. The hawk with the most food sprayed with pesticide doesn't
die but since it has accumulated so much pesticide in its body the next
eggs produced will be so thin that the eggs will not be able to hatch.
No other hawks are affected THIS TIME.
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Put chairs into a circle
facing each other, one for each girl. Have the girls sit in the
chairs, and go around
the circle and assign
each girl a fruit, alternating between apples, bananas, peaches and
pears. Stand in the center and call out a fruit. Each girl that is
assigned that fruit has to get up and change places with another girl of
the same fruit. Every now and then call out more than one fruit,
or yell FRUIT BASKET and everyone must change places. The last girl in
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| NIGHT
SEARCH RELAY |
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Items needed:
1 index sized card per girl.
reflecting tape
3 flashlights
This game is to be done
at night or in a completely dark room
Divide girls into 3
teams: the circles, the squares and the triangles. Cut reflecting tape
into those shapes and put each girls shape on their card. Take the
cards and hide them where the girls can find them easily.
Have the girls stand on
the side in 3 lines, separated into their group. At the GO
command, the first girl from each group has to use their flashlight to
find a card representing their group. Once a girl finds one, they
are to come back to their group and hand the flashlight to the next
girl. This is done until each girl gets a chance, but make note of
who finishes first. If a girl finds a card that isn't hers (wrong
group), she is to leave it there, untouched.
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Items needed: A small rock.
The girls sit in a circle close enough to
easily hold hands. One person stands in the middle and tries to
find the rock. One girl starts with the rock in one hand and
everyone in the circle does the movements and sings the
song.
The movements: To the beat of the
song, with closed fists, hit your hands together, then hit them to the
hands of the girls on each side of you. Repeat this passing the
rock to each other when you get it without the person in the middle
figuring out who has it.
The song:
Rock Rock, how I wander,
from one hand in to the other,
is it fair? Is it fair?
To keep poor ??? standing there. (fill in the ??? with the girl's
name in the middle)
This game takes lots of practice passing
that rock without being seen, as you only have one beat of the music to
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SCOUT |
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Items needed: Cut Sally, a
paper doll figure, out of card stock.
Sit Sally in a chair and introduce her to the girls. Say something
nice about her, and someone not so nice, such as she wears weird
clothes. When you say this, tear off a piece of her, such as half
of her arm. Have each girl say one thing that is nice about her,
and one thing that isn't, and each time a negative thing is said, tear
off another piece. Once each girl has had a turn, tell them that
now that they have torn her apart, they must put her back together
again. Once Sally is in one piece again, explain to them that the
scars will never fully heal, even if they are on the inside. |
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PAPER GAME |
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Items needed:
1 roll of toilet paper
This is great to use as a
"getting to know you" activity. We did it at my first
Service Unit meeting!
Pass the roll of toilet
paper around, telling each person to take as much as she feels she
needs. Don't tell them anything else. When everyone has
taken at least one square, tell them that they are to take turns telling
something about themselves, one thing for each square taken!
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UNATURE
HIKE
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Items needed:
1 sheet of
paper and pencil for every two girls
1 garbage bag
twice as many items as their are girls that DO NOT belong in nature
(such as a napkin, a drink bottle,etc)
Place items around a
hiking trail, making most of them non-obvious. Have the girls stay
with their buddies and walk the trail. They are to write down the
items they see without touching them or pointing them out to anyone
else. At the end of the hike take the girls papers and lead them
back down the trail pointing out the litter and have them pick it up and
put it into the garbage bag. Once done give the girls back their
papers and let them compare how much they found and how much they
missed.
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Have the girls stand in a circle.
Taking turns, each girl must tell one thing about themselves or their experiences
that they think is unique. If no one else shares the experience or characteristic, the
girl gets to sit down. If another girl has had the same experience, the
girl remains in the outer circle. Keep going from girl until all girls
are seated. This game will show how we may think that we don't
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This game was sent to us via a Girl Scout
email chain letter. The source is unknown, but it's such a great
activity that we had to include it here! If anyone knows who it
originated with, we would love to give them credit!
Your family has decided that they can no longer live in Canada. There are no jobs and the prospect of finding jobs in very slim. Your family has discussed where to move to and because one of your
neighbors moved to India last year and was able to find a job the decision has been made to move your family to India. They have chosen you to go ahead, find a job and someplace for them to stay and they will follow you in about 6 months. The day has arrived for you to leave and you have said your good-byes to your family and friends and are now seated on the airplane waiting for take off. The person sitting beside you says: "Is this your first trip to India? You reply, "Yes" and the person says " what do you know about India?"
1. Write three things you say:
You have a very smooth flight to India, when you arrive at Customs, you hand your passport to the Customers Officer, he shakes his head, says something you do not understands, points over to another Officer and you have to haul all your stuff over there you do not understand anything they are saying to you.
2. What do you feel?
They finally appear to be satisfied with your passport and you are allowed out into the people filled airport. You look all around and cannot see anyone that even looks vaguely familiar. The family who moved here last year are suppose to be here to pick you up. You cannot find them.
3. What do you feel?
You have waited two hours and you no idea what you should do. You just sit and wait. You look around you at the people in their strange clothes, with their strange language that you cannot understand.
4. What do you feel as you look and listen?
People seem to be looking at you strangely and you begin to worry about what to do if these people do not come soon. As the people look at you...
5. What do you think they are thinking?
The family you have been waiting for finally arrive, full of explanations as to why they are late. They take you to their home, which is only a very small apartment and tell you that you are welcome to say there for a few days until you can find a job and a place to live.
6. What do you feel?
7. What do you want them to say?
They tell you that they know of a place that is hiring and that they will take you there the next day to see if you can get a job.
8. What kind of job do you expect to get?
The company says yes they will hire you and that you can start the next day. It is a shoe factory and you will be cutting out the leather for the tops of the shoes. You are to stand at a machine which has very sharp blades and if you do not move the blade very accurately you ruin the leather and the shoe cannot be made and you could possibly cut yourself very severely. You are not sure that you understand exactly what to do as the person who explained your job did not speak English very well and was very hard to understand. You worked in an office back home and have never had to stand all day to work.
9. Briefly list your impressions of your first day:
The other people in the factory are not very friendly and because you cannot speak their language you are finding it difficult to make any friends.
10. List your efforts:
You have been looking for a place to live, because there is not enough room for you at your friends. You have two choices. You can move in with a family who are from Canada or you can move in with an Indian family.
11. Which do you choose and why?
You are taking language classes at night and trying very hard to learn to speak their language but there are so many dialects that you find you cannot understand anything. You try very hard but feel you will never learn the new language. You get to work one morning and they tell you that they have made a rule that says you must speak their language and that you can no longer speak English at work.
12.a. What is your first thought?
12.b. When would you find yourself breaking the rule?
Christmas is fast approaching, Your family will not be with you for Christmas but the family you live with is very friendly and will help you get through Christmas.
13. List two other times when you would feel homesick?
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