I have some Daisy petal activities for you today. I am a Daisy leader this year. I have tried to make the meetings fun and interactive for the girls. I’m going to show you two different activities today, but I’ve got more Girl Scout ideas for you as well if you just click that link.
Girl Scout Law/Promise Bracelet
For one of our first meetings, while we were working on learning the Girl Scout promise and understanding that each of the petals is part of the law or promise, we made bracelets. If you are a Girl Scout leader, you have likely seen bracelets similar to this using plain plastic beads (pony beads). I wanted to cute ours up a bit for our cute Daisy’s. I also thought that flower beads would be much better for my Daisy scouts!
Aren’t they so cute? To make these bracelets, you will need flower beads
(affiliate link) and elastic cording. The beads I found didn’t have quite enough colors to make the whole representation. I just added some cute plastic crystal beads (affiliate link) to add a little sparkle and glamor for my Daisy’s.
(affiliate link) and elastic cording. The beads I found didn’t have quite enough colors to make the whole representation. I just added some cute plastic crystal beads (affiliate link) to add a little sparkle and glamor for my Daisy’s.
You will need beads in dark blue, light blue, yellow, spring (light) green, red, orange, purple, magenta (mine wasn’t very magenta), green, rose (or light pink) and violet. I made up a ‘kit’ for each girl. I had one of each bead and some elastic cording in a bag for each girl. It made it easier to get the activity going rather than try to distribute everything with 9 Daisy’s clamoring around.
I have 8 Kindergarten Daisy’s and 1 1st Grade Daisy. They were all able to make these bracelets with small amounts of help. Then we practiced the Girl Scout promise and talked about the law and the petals we would be earning.
Yellow Daisy Petal
The other activity I want to show you today is for the Yellow Daisy petal. The yellow petal is working on being friendly and helpful. I used my Cricut (affiliate link) before the meeting and cut out 3 blue flowers and 3 yellow centers for each girl. If you don’t have a Cricut, you could use foam flowers from the kid’s craft section at a craft store. Using paper was less expensive because I only needed a few sheets of paper rather than a huge pack of foam. It also allowed me to have all blue flowers rather than a multi-colored pack. I wanted blue Daisy flowers….can you guess why? (In case you really don’t know, a Daisy Girl Scout vest is blue.)
I bought one pack of Daisy stickers, gems, and some sparkly pieces so we could decorate our flowers. Because there was a limited number of each of those items, we had to talk about how it would be fair to split things up (working on our honest and fair petal from the week before). We talked about some ideas of what it means to be considerate and caring and acted out one idea as well.
Each girl then took home the 3 flowers they had decorated. They were to do some of the considerate or caring things we had talked about. Once they completed a caring or considerate act for a friend or family member. They were to leave their Daisy flower behind. That would let the person know a caring or considerate Daisy scout had been there.
I found a blue flower in my shoes that had been put away. Snowflake, my older daughter, found a blue flower on her bed, which had been made. Pumpkin, my Daisy scout, also did a bunch of things for Momo (my mom), who was visiting at the time. Momo kept giving the flowers back and kept getting them back. Suffice it to say that Pumpkin got lots of practice being considerate and caring.
We did another cute Daisy Girl Scout craft making this flower together at another meeting. Check it out for more ideas.
I still remember the girl scout promise! these projects are great ideas!
Great memory! Thanks.
KC
Cute! We’ve done similar with pony beads. I’ve talked to another blogger about creating a network of scout bloggers. Not sure if we will do it or not, but we should all share with each other and make sure to pin!
Thanks! If you do put a network together, let me know. I plan to blog about some other ideas as well. Maybe we could make a community board on pinterest and all pin our GS ideas there. Just an idea.
KC
Absulutely adorable!CM
Thanks!
KC
those girls are blessed to have you in their lives!
Aww, Thank you! I think I have a fantastic group of girls! They are so cute and sweet. I’m enjoying being a leader.
KC
The GS were a part of my family when
my girls were young.. where can I find
the cookies? Or do I really need them?
It’s a good thing to get your girls
involved in the GS world.
Nice post
Sandy
If you google for Girl Scouts, on their site they have a way to find a cookie booth near you. Depending on your council it may be another month or so before you start seeing booths around.
Thanks,
KC
I love this idea!
I’m a Brownie Guider (7-10yrs) and Guide Guider (10-14+) in England. With a couple of tweeks (for our different promises and laws) I can use this idea with my girls!
Thank You! 🙂
Oh, I’m so glad you can tweak the idea and make it work for your Girl Guides! Love!
Enjoy!
KC
where did you find those cute flower beads? we are doing the yellow petal next month…thanks for the cute ideas!
I got them at Michael’s. Hope that helps.
KC
Where did you find the flower beads?
I found them in the kids craft section at Michael’s. Hope that helps.
KC
I have my first meeting as a Daisy leader next week and I’m using these ideas. Yikes! I’m a little nervous.. 13 1st graders!!
You are going to do great! They are such a fun age. Do you have a good co-leader or assistant? With 13, you will need it(and it is necessary under the Girl Scout safety policies). We had 12 at the end of last year and it was fun and kept us busy. Enjoy! I have other ideas on the blog if you need them. 🙂
May I ask what cricut cartridge you used? I am borrowing one to do this activity & she doesn’t have any flowers….
I think I used the Cricut Essentials cartridge. It has been a long time and I’m not sure, but the only other one it would have been would have been the Creative Memories This & That cartridge. Hope that helps or that you were able to figure something out.
This is awesome… Great idea and thank you for sharing.