Apologies for the lack of posts over the last 2 months... Things just got busier and I couldn't find time to write. Here is what we did for the last few weeks of term and the first two weeks of this term will follow in the next day or so.
28/11/13
This week we made 3D foam Christmas trees.
We bought kits which contained all that the girls needed; the tree, a
star, baubles, snowflakes and candy canes. Each kit came with enough for
4 trees so we had to cut up the sheets of baubles so the girls could
have 4 of each colour bauble which left me with a lot to do at the
beginning of the meeting because we'd forgotten to do it before the
meeting. The girls seemed to enjoy themselves and there were quite a few
really detailed trees.
Once they had finished they could chose a colourful sheet of paper and make paper chains. We had loads of really long chains by the end of the evening and it was definitely a big hit with the girls!
5/12/13
This week we did some more Christmas crafts - baubles and cutlery holders. The baubles were made from clear plastic balls and the girls made a snowman from polystyrene balls. They had cardboard hats and scarves and beads on needles for eyes and noses! Each bauble also had a small amount of fake snow at the bottom. It was quite a tricky craft so we had one table making them with Brown Owl (who invented the craft!) while all the other girls did Snowy's craft; cutlery holders.
Each girl had a piece of red card from which they cut out the main shape using a template Snowy had made. They then folded it up and stapled the edge together. They had to cut out a square of white card and then cut out two slits in it for the belt buckle and then they had to thread sticky black felt through the buckle before sticking it round the main body. This was extremely tricky for the majority of girls and, if we did it again, I would use regular felt and glue instead.They also had the option of putting a parcel label on it with a name on (for use on their table at Christmas). Snowy had provided enough material for each girl to make 4 but they started to get bored after one so I think she needed to have chosen something else too. Luckily we still had paper from last week so the girls made even more paper chains!
12/12/13
This week we had gingerbread cookies to decorate so 5 girls at a time went
into the kitchen with our 2 other adult helpers and decorated stars with
icing and sprinkles. Surprisingly, the girls didn't go excessively
overboard with this as they usually do - some of the cookies leaving at
the end of the meeting were actually really good quality!
Unfortunately, I can't remember what we did this week other than the cookies... I really need to keep on top of this...
19/12/13
This week was party week! Two girls who were leaving this week organised the evening for the other girls. It was a Christmas colours or onsie theme so naturally most girls showed up in their onsies - I mean, who's going to turn down the opportunity to go out in their pyjamas at that age!? They started off by playing coaches (instructions here) and then fishes (instructions also here) while the other Young Leader and I set up the food on the tables ready for when they were done. We then had to stand by the tables making sure they didn't run into it though..!
Once they were done playing, we let them loose with the food. Before a party, we send home a slip of paper with each girl telling them what food to bring. That way we can have some say over the amount of savoury and sweet items we have (and that we don't end up with 24 lots of the same food!). We let the girls sit on the floor or chairs with their friends so naturally we have a few drinks spillages but it's generally a good atmosphere.
At the end of the meeting we gave each girl a Christmas card and the two girls who were leaving got their certificates and teddy bear keyring before the girls all went home.
It's been a good term with lots going on. I feel I've deserved this rest though! Bring on next term... :D
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Saturday, 18 January 2014
Thursday, 31 October 2013
Halloween evening
24/10/13
I ran this evening as a Halloween themed evening. We told the girls at the end of last week to come in fancy dress and we had loads of different outfits, ranging from princesses to witches and vampires. Some of them had really gone to town with their outfit and had face paint or had died their hair with a shop bought costume and others had clearly tried their best with what they had at home. We've had Halloween evenings in the past and they've not gone as smoothly as we would have liked so I decided to try something a little different. Instead of having them all doing one activity and then the next I decided to have it as a rotation type evening, like our craft evening from a few weeks back. I chose 4 Halloween themed activities and then let the girls move from one to the next whenever they were ready.
We did apple bobbing, doughnut-on-string eating, Halloween biscuit decorating and face painting. Each leader was assigned an activity which they stayed on all evening and the Young Leaders mingled with the girls. I was in the kitchen, doing the biscuits. We bought a few boxes of Halloween shaped biscuits and used the icing left over from pack holiday. Sadly we only had yellow, blue and black but the girls made use of them the best they could (some of them realised that yellow and blue make green and were mixing them together on their biscuit however this became a little out of control and I had to put a stop to it). Some of the biscuits came out looking really good and others didn't so much! We also had the issue that the scouts in the next hall were having their AGM so we had to be quieter than we normally would and we couldn't have as many girls in the kitchen as we would ordinarily have had so we had to rush them to make sure everyone could have a go.
The girls seemed to be split down the middle about apple bobbing - some of them thought it was unhygienic and refused to do it and others were so keen we couldn't keep them out of the bucket! We had a separate apple for each girl and the water was changed regularly so it was perfectly hygienic but it was quite funny listening to some of them talking to their friends about how 'disgusting' it was to 'share saliva with someone'!
The face painting started off with mum painting small motifs on the girls' cheeks (we'd emailed all the parents a few days before to check that none of the girls were allergic) and then some of the girls asked if they could do each others' faces. This was going OK and the girls ended up looking quite nice with little bats although several of them commented on how talented mum was to be able to do it so well!
Overall, I think this evening was a success and went a lot better than Halloween evenings have in the past (usually we have a load of girls stood around with nothing to do...) however I think that it could have gone even better if we had had more space in the kitchen so we could have had more girls in there at one time.
Now for a week off for half term and then back on the 7th of November.
I ran this evening as a Halloween themed evening. We told the girls at the end of last week to come in fancy dress and we had loads of different outfits, ranging from princesses to witches and vampires. Some of them had really gone to town with their outfit and had face paint or had died their hair with a shop bought costume and others had clearly tried their best with what they had at home. We've had Halloween evenings in the past and they've not gone as smoothly as we would have liked so I decided to try something a little different. Instead of having them all doing one activity and then the next I decided to have it as a rotation type evening, like our craft evening from a few weeks back. I chose 4 Halloween themed activities and then let the girls move from one to the next whenever they were ready.
We did apple bobbing, doughnut-on-string eating, Halloween biscuit decorating and face painting. Each leader was assigned an activity which they stayed on all evening and the Young Leaders mingled with the girls. I was in the kitchen, doing the biscuits. We bought a few boxes of Halloween shaped biscuits and used the icing left over from pack holiday. Sadly we only had yellow, blue and black but the girls made use of them the best they could (some of them realised that yellow and blue make green and were mixing them together on their biscuit however this became a little out of control and I had to put a stop to it). Some of the biscuits came out looking really good and others didn't so much! We also had the issue that the scouts in the next hall were having their AGM so we had to be quieter than we normally would and we couldn't have as many girls in the kitchen as we would ordinarily have had so we had to rush them to make sure everyone could have a go.
The girls seemed to be split down the middle about apple bobbing - some of them thought it was unhygienic and refused to do it and others were so keen we couldn't keep them out of the bucket! We had a separate apple for each girl and the water was changed regularly so it was perfectly hygienic but it was quite funny listening to some of them talking to their friends about how 'disgusting' it was to 'share saliva with someone'!
The face painting started off with mum painting small motifs on the girls' cheeks (we'd emailed all the parents a few days before to check that none of the girls were allergic) and then some of the girls asked if they could do each others' faces. This was going OK and the girls ended up looking quite nice with little bats although several of them commented on how talented mum was to be able to do it so well!
Overall, I think this evening was a success and went a lot better than Halloween evenings have in the past (usually we have a load of girls stood around with nothing to do...) however I think that it could have gone even better if we had had more space in the kitchen so we could have had more girls in there at one time.
Now for a week off for half term and then back on the 7th of November.
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