Is that blood all around my finger?
Nov. 26th, 2015 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
smallhobbitNo, of course not, it's red paint. It goes with the blue and purple paint I also had on my hand. We were painting candles, only the special candle painting paint didn't squeeze out of the tubes, so in desperation Sparkly Owl and I cut the tops off the tubes and squeezed the paint into little pots. Consequently we were covered in paint before the Brownies had even got started. Nevertheless they enjoyed painting their candles and most of them made a good job of it. Some of the girls are clearly very artistic and took the time and trouble to produce something very pretty. Others have less ability but still managed a reasonable decoration. And when the parents/carers came to collect their Brownies I stood at the door and said cheerfully "the candles are wet and wobbly". But it was nice to see parents looking genuinely pleased at a craft which was good enough to be displayed, rather than discretely hidden behind something.
This week the Brownies decorated tumblers with torn pieces of thin wrapping paper which were glued onto the tumblers. Each girl was then given an LED nightlight which would shine through the glass. It's an easy craft, but again effective and popular - everyone can produce something and it means working with sticky glue. We had done a similar craft just over a year ago, but interestingly out of the 20 Brownies we now have, only two had been with us then.
Brown Owl told me we have seven girls on our waiting list, and with four spaces and two leaving at Christmas because they will be 10, we can take the six who will be old enough (one won't be 7 until the end of February) at the begin of next term. It's nice to feel wanted, I think.
Neither craft took up the whole evening, so we've been able to play games afterwards. We've had the old favourites: port and starboard; fishes; and of course, pink knickers (why this is the most popular game I have no idea, but the disappointment when we don't play it is immense).
This week the Brownies decorated tumblers with torn pieces of thin wrapping paper which were glued onto the tumblers. Each girl was then given an LED nightlight which would shine through the glass. It's an easy craft, but again effective and popular - everyone can produce something and it means working with sticky glue. We had done a similar craft just over a year ago, but interestingly out of the 20 Brownies we now have, only two had been with us then.
Brown Owl told me we have seven girls on our waiting list, and with four spaces and two leaving at Christmas because they will be 10, we can take the six who will be old enough (one won't be 7 until the end of February) at the begin of next term. It's nice to feel wanted, I think.
Neither craft took up the whole evening, so we've been able to play games afterwards. We've had the old favourites: port and starboard; fishes; and of course, pink knickers (why this is the most popular game I have no idea, but the disappointment when we don't play it is immense).
