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It's really getting hard to find suitable activities for the Brownies over zoom.  We've now started to work towards the Take Action theme and finding things which will work is quite a challenge.  Each theme has a number of activities: the five activities for the Skills Builder are compulsory, although there are a couple of choices as to which Skills Builder we can do; and there are a wide selection of Unit Meeting Activities which we can mix and match.  Each activity comes with an A4 card which tells you how to run the activity.
 
All of which sounds really helpful, except that units have to buy the cards in the first place - we were fortunate to get a Guiding grant which meant we could afford a complete set.  And, of course, the activities are designed to be done as a unit, meeting together face to face.  We have been adapting as best we can but it's not always possible.  At our recent meeting in the leader's garden we instantly discarded a good number of the cards, which might have been quite fun, but just wouldn't work.

However, we have managed some things.  Last week we looked at being super-Brownies.  Each girl stated something which needed improving in our location - several mentioned litter.  They then made a super-Brownie costume of a cardboard mask and a cape from a plastic bag and came up with a solution to the problem.

This week we talked about the idea of doing good turns, and how it should be something that benefits others and not just themselves.  After which they made paper chains with a good turn done by each of the Brownies on a separate link.  They're now being encouraged to continue the chain with more good turns.

Nearly there ...
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