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smallhobbitIt's ages since I last did a Brownie post. I missed the first week, since I was travelling home from Italy (a good an excuse as any) and then the weeks seemed to come very fast. Anyway ...
A couple of weeks ago we took the Brownies to Tesco's for a Farm to Fork Visit. This is part of Tesco contribution to the community - or making themselves look good. However, it was a free evening out and there was a badge at the end. Plus most of our parents will already be shopping in Tesco (we have a superstore very close) so it was hardly a promotion. The girls got to see a number of different types of fish - and poke them (they were wearing gloves, but I wouldn't fancy a Brownie-poked fish for tea). We looked at different colours of fruit and veg. And then they made faces out of small pieces of fruit and veg and paper plates, before eating them. They all enjoyed themselves and found it interesting. The woman who took us round commented on how well behaved they were, and suggested we return in the spring to learn about some more of the departments, which I'm now organising. So a good time was had by all.
Last week we played games and had an enrolment for six new Brownies. Two of the new girls admitted they hadn't read the Brownie story, so I got the pack acting it out, which was surprisingly good fun and they all joined in enthusiastically.
And yesterday we handed out digestive biscuits and lots of writing icing tubes in different colours and gave them free range to decorate the biscuits. We suggested they might like to make them look like Christmas tree baubles and once again they were very happily engaged. Some of them produced some very pretty biscuits, others less so, but they were all very happy to be taking home four highly decorated biscuits each.
This term we've moved a few of the girls into different sixes, so they can have a chance to lead them, and it's been really encouraging seeing the difference they've made and see a couple of the sixes which weren't working very well suddenly improving and managing to achieve things.
A couple of weeks ago we took the Brownies to Tesco's for a Farm to Fork Visit. This is part of Tesco contribution to the community - or making themselves look good. However, it was a free evening out and there was a badge at the end. Plus most of our parents will already be shopping in Tesco (we have a superstore very close) so it was hardly a promotion. The girls got to see a number of different types of fish - and poke them (they were wearing gloves, but I wouldn't fancy a Brownie-poked fish for tea). We looked at different colours of fruit and veg. And then they made faces out of small pieces of fruit and veg and paper plates, before eating them. They all enjoyed themselves and found it interesting. The woman who took us round commented on how well behaved they were, and suggested we return in the spring to learn about some more of the departments, which I'm now organising. So a good time was had by all.
Last week we played games and had an enrolment for six new Brownies. Two of the new girls admitted they hadn't read the Brownie story, so I got the pack acting it out, which was surprisingly good fun and they all joined in enthusiastically.
And yesterday we handed out digestive biscuits and lots of writing icing tubes in different colours and gave them free range to decorate the biscuits. We suggested they might like to make them look like Christmas tree baubles and once again they were very happily engaged. Some of them produced some very pretty biscuits, others less so, but they were all very happy to be taking home four highly decorated biscuits each.
This term we've moved a few of the girls into different sixes, so they can have a chance to lead them, and it's been really encouraging seeing the difference they've made and see a couple of the sixes which weren't working very well suddenly improving and managing to achieve things.
