BC PROGRAM COMMITTEE
FunFinder June 2012
Celebrations: July through September Inside this issue:
This is the third edition of includes celebrations in ideas could be Program Events 2 the FunFinder focusing on July, August and used at any News celebrations. This issue September. However, these time of year. Chocolate Day 4 How to Order BC Challenge Crests Teddy Bear Picnic 5 I hope that all Guiders in BC and their requirements at payment (see the form itself Day are aware of the Challenges http://www.bc- for crest costs and mailing Strawberry Sundae that can be completed as a girlguides.org/resources/ instructions) OR you can 9 fun alternative way to work challenge-crests/ . On this email your completed form to Day towards your program same page, above the links OfficeClerk@bc- Thread the Needle 11 requirements. But every to the challenges girlguides.org and phone the Day week we receive the same themselves, is a link office at 1-800-565-8111 question: “How do I order entitled “BC Crests during office hours to pay by Swiss National Day 13 the challenge crests?” Interactive Request credit card. Form”. You need to On the BC Girl Guides Once payment has been download this form and fill it International Art website you can find the received, please allow 4-6 15 out. You can then print it Appreciation Day complete list of challenges weeks for delivery. and mail it in with your National Potato Day 16 Girls for Safer Communities Better Breakfast 18 In BC we have over 170 ratio and possibly a few community Month Pathfinder and Rangers supplies. Having the older where Mexican trained to visit younger girls visit your Unit can be there is 19 Units and deliver a fun beneficial in many ways, nobody already trained to Independence Day program based on safety in including giving the deliver the program? This International Peace 21 the community (covering Pathfinder/Ranger an program is available for all Day several parts of the opportunity to practice her girls at all levels – for more information check the Math Storytelling program at all levels). leadership skills. 22 These older girls are ready website. To connect with a Day Need help to connect with a and equipped to run a full Pathfinder or Ranger to trained Pathfinder or Asian Harvest meeting – the Unit being deliver the program contact Ranger? Are you in a 24 visited will need to provide [email protected]. Festivals Could YOU Be a Program Adviser? Enthusiasm wanted! Do you love to come up with become a program in terms of program. If you ideas for new and exciting adviser? All it takes is a think that you would like to We are looking for creative, ways to fulfill the Girl Guide passion for Guiding and a take on a position to ensure enthusiastic Guiders to join program? Are you willingness to take on a these types of events the BC Program enthusiastic to learn about new challenge. happen in your Guiding Committee, as follows: and work with all levels of Many districts and areas world, please contact your Guiding? Can you pull Environment Resource are in need of program district or area commissioner together a team to run a Healthy Lifestyles advisers. Take a look at the to offer your expertise. program event in your Resource next page to see what See the back page of this district or area? And did some of the areas have newsletter for a complete job Communications Liaison you know that anyone can accomplished this past year description. © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Program Events News What’s Been Happening in BC This Year?
There are so many fun events in the various areas. Maybe this throughout BC. We thought it would information will spark an idea for your be interesting to share what goes on area for next year?? North Star Lones Thompson Nicola Area Submitted by Tara Decker, past Area Program Adviser The year started with a ceremony in Riverside Park to mark the first “Day of the Girl”. Local female dignitaries came to speak to the girls. Songs and a trading session followed. In January, our area hosted the second “Snow Ball”. Over Rivers North 200 girls attended this evening dance party. This spring, our area hosted a weekend Science Camp for Thompson Nicola Sparks and Brownies at Camp Selhowtkan, our camp located Pacific Shores Monashee on the shores of Adams Lake. Lions In coordination with the International Adviser and with help Kootenay from our local Spark units, 10 international costumes were Southern purchased last year and a kit for use by Spark units was Vancouver created containing not only the costumes but flags from each Island of the countries and information on traditional games, foods West Coast and songs for each country. If the country is a member of Lougheed Fraser Skies WAGGS, information about their equivalent Spark groups Rivers North Area were included. More recently, we have introduced the “Lead the Cheer – Submitted by Lorrine Adams, Girl Programs Manager Community Challenge”. In November we hosted a Girls for Safer Communities sleepover in Prince George. The girls & Guiders that participated learned how to make their Lions Area unit meeting locations & communities safer. Many of Submitted by Jill Campbell, Area Program Adviser the participants have shared what they learned with the rest of the girls in their unit. Last year we put on the Snowflake Ball and will be doing it We are also working on our area girl event...Livin' again next year. We had 300 girls in their finest, visiting five Out Loud. A multi level camp to be held at Crooked stations. Face painting, singing, dancing, crafts and princess River Provincial Park, (Bear Lake) July 6th - 9th. Four food made a big day. Free dance at the end to get rid of any fun filled days for Sparks through Rangers. Activities remaining energy. will include canoeing, hiking, swimming, & much Lions Area also encourages activities with the Program more! Enhancement Fund. The fund covers an activity, chosen by Pacific Shores Area the Guider, that they might otherwise be unable to afford. The maximum subsidy is $15.00 per girl and adult needed for ratio. Submitted by Dawnette Humphrey, Area So far some of the activities have been snowshoeing, Commissioner geocaching and beach bonfire, a trip to Victoria, Aquarium In Pacific Shores Area we are fortunate to have an sleepover, sleigh rides, skating, Food Safe certification and Area Special Events Adviser & she has a deputy. Aboriginal education program. Each year they focus on a particular level, in the in We also ask the units to use the Program Adviser to present the last Guiding year a trip for Pathfinders was challenges; so far I have done four CSI Challenge sessions, organized to the H.R. MacMillan Space Centre in Vancouver. but would be happy to do more!
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Page 2 Monashee Area Lougheed Area Submitted by Maureen Barkley, Deputy Area Commissioner Submitted by Kirsten Goll, Area Program Adviser In October we held an Area Patrol Leader Camp, This year we launched our Lougheed Area Community “Spooktacular”. Held with a Halloween theme, this camp is Action Challenge. The goal is to have a Unit complete at for those girls who will be patrol leaders or patrol seconds least ten community related service projects, events or for their Units in that year. The girls learn how to take dues activities as well as sell one third of Unit cookies door-to- properly, flag etiquette, how to plan and lead campfire, how door and participate in at least one cookie blitz for each to teach a skill, ceremonies, knots, Unit circle and campaign. This has brought very positive feedback and communication skills—all while making Jack-o-Lantern the requests for crests have been coming in steadily. To tortillas, poison potions and playing mummy games! This is learn about our challenge, visit http:// a great camp to have girls work on leadership skills! www.girlguideslougheedarea.org/Program/Community% 20Action%20Challenge.pdf. Our Guide Arrest event was held in April and four court rooms were filled with third year Guides who had In February an area event for all levels was held: 525 girls TELUS World of Science committed “crimes.” For example: being mistaken as and Guiders attended the Camp In hooligans by an elderly woman on whom they tried to . The sleepover included access to all of the administer first aid, being mistaken as a gang because exhibits, science experiments, an Omnimax film and, of they all wore the same colour and chanted slogans – course, a campfire! actually were singing Girl Guide songs. They were We had a Pathfinder Transit Scavenger Hunt in “arrested”, processed (fingerprinted and put in a holding March. Pathfinders travelled around the Lower Mainland cell), then went to trial. They were encouraged to ask collecting points through photographs and by finding questions and had a lot of fun in the learning! Afterwards landmarks using all forms of public transit. volunteers were thanked with cookies and the girls all Guide Skills Day was held in April at Blue Mountain Park received crests. A great way for Guides to work toward the in Coquitlam. Patrols had the opportunity to learn about Law Badge. camp skills: tents, stoves, lanterns, knots, first-aid, tarping, In June we will be holding a Spark and Brownie event fire starters, flags, bedrolls and team building! Edible called Rainbow Revelee and expect about 240 girls from Campfires and time for traders were also a highlight! throughout the area to attend this colour-themed event. We had an area event for the Sparks in May called Sparks Our Heart to Heart Community Challenge has proven on Safari. It was held at the Greater Vancouver Zoo. The quite popular, and many crests have been distributed. To day included a train ride, craft, game run by the zoo staff, participate in our challenge, visit http:// hotdog lunch, event crest and sing along. www.monasheegirlguides.com/challenges/ hearttoheartchallenge.pdf. Fraser Skies Area Southern Vancouver Island Submitted by Jenni Halladay, Area Program Adviser Submitted by Brenda Fraser, Area Commissioner Last summer we put on a Guider/daughter camp for As we do not have an area program adviser in SVI, we did Guiders and their daughters, in our area, as a way to not have any area-sponsored program events this past promote program. We called it MaD About Camp Mac, a year. We did, however, promote our SVI Community Taste of Program Camp! We completed four challenges Connections Challenge which many units throughout the and will be holding another camp this August. area participated in. This challenge involves program and In the winter, we held a Snowflake Ball for all the Sparks service activities while it encourages making connections and Brownies in the area. It was a fabulous success with with the community. To view our challenge, visit http:// about 450 girls attending over three sessions scheduled in www.svigirlguides.bc.ca/sviareachallenge.htm. one day to accommodate the popularity of this event. In the spring our new community challenge called Hear Our Voice: A Community Challenge was launched. The At the time of publication, we did not receive reports Challenge is open to all of Canada and WAGGGS, and can from West Coast Area or Kootenay Area. be found at: http://www.fraserskiesgirlguides.com/ HearOurVoice.html.
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Page 3 July Chocolate Day 7 Challenge: Quebec Chocolate Challenge Adapted from: http://web.archive.org/ are the most popular? web/20041104060500/http://guides- 10.Make sweets. Make a selection of quebec.ca/page.php?id=84 sweets using melted chocolate. Who doesn’t love chocolate? Every Work out how much they cost to day is a fabulous day to celebrate make and compare this with chocolate, but on July 7th we truly similar store bought chocolate. Make a chocolate dessert. have reason to celebrate! 11. Bring it in and share it with your unit. The Quebec Chocolate Challenge Check out the following recipe was issued in 2004 and, due to known bars of an equivalent size. websites: popular demand, has been recently 3. Become a Chocolate Tester. M&M’s: http://www.m-ms.com/us/baking/ reissued. You can order crests at a Hold a chocolate tasting event. Tootsie Roll: http://www.tootsie.com/ cost of $1.50 plus shipping from their What is the difference in taste recipes_baking.php provincial office at 1-800-565-8111 or between “bitter, semi-sweet and Godiva: http://www.godiva.com/recipes/ [email protected]. sweet” and “milk, dark and white default.aspx chocolate”? Which do you like Hershey’s: http://www.hersheys.com/ All branches must do A or B and up to recipes.aspx 9 challenges below. best? 4. Find chocolate facts. There are 12.Make a chocolate craft. Check out Sparks must complete 3 other many myths and misconceptions the following websites for making a challenges, Brownies 5, Guides 7, about chocolate. Research 3 of the craft out of chocolate. Pathfinders and Rangers 9. following: chocolate and acne, http://www.hersheys.com/kisses/seasonal/ ideas.aspx A. Build a Chocolate Timeline. antioxidants, caffeine, cravings, http://crafts.kaboose.com/chocolate-spoons.html tooth decay, nutrients, weight Chocolate has been around a long http://www.craftsayings.com/sayings/ control, or cocoa butter. (http:// time. Learn about the history of www.candyusa.com/FunStuff/CandyType.cfm? chocolate.shtml chocolate and how it first came to ItemNumber=1624) http://www.essortment.com/all/ North America. Then create a timeline 5. Create a Chocolate Tree. Using chocolatecrafts_rgeq.htm showing the important dates in candy bar wrappers create a http://www.ehow.com/list_7216729_chocolate- Chocolate history. (http:// chocolate tree. Compare the crafts-kids.html Examine different cookies. www.chocolatemonthclub.com/chocolatehistory.htm) nutritional information on the 13. Buy OR wrappers. Which have the most several different brands of and least calories? Why? Organize chocolate chip cookies. Challenge B. Do Some Chocolate Geography. the wrappers to reflect their the girls to estimate how many Learn about how beans become nutritional qualities. chips are in different cookies, then chocolate. Using a world map locate 6. Share a chocolate recipe. Bring take them apart like an where cacao beans are grown. Where in your favourite recipes involving archeologist does, and find out is most chocolate processed and chocolate and share it with your how many are really there. You consumed? What journey does the friends. Put together a cookbook may find out how the cookies are cacao bean undergo from picking to for your unit. alike or different. Create chocolate drama. ending up as a bar of chocolate. (http:// 7. Be Daring. Make instant chocolate 14. Have www.candyusa.com/FunStuff/CandyType.cfm? pudding together, then finger-paint the girls create funny chocolate ItemNumber=935) with it. stories or skits.
8. Chocolate as money. Explain that (1) The Day it Rained Chocolate (2) What will I do? I’m locked in a Additional challenges: a long time ago, a group of people used cacao beans as money. candy store 1. Play a Kim’s Game. Cut 10 Have the girls pretend that Canada (3) This is so weird! I took a bite of different chocolate bars into will be using M&M’s for money. my _____ and …… pieces. How many different kinds Discuss the good points and the (4) A giant chocolate bar came up of bars can you identify by looking bad points. to me and started crying at the cross sections. 9. Do a survey. Keep a record of all saying….. 2. What is fair trade chocolate? the chocolate you eat over a week. (5) One morning, I woke up and Which companies produce it? Compare your results with the had a bad case of chocolate Compare the cost of a bar of fair other girls in your unit. What fever/chocolate sniffles/ trade chocolate with other well- brands and varieties of chocolate chocolate pops.
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Page 4 July Teddy Bear Picnic Day 10 Teddy Bear Picnic History
In 1902 a man Morris Michtom heard Picnic - little did he realize that it check calendars of an incident where President would become a celebration day in your local Roosevelt refused to shoot a black recognized over the world! community. bear he came across. He created a In 1932 Jimmy Kennedy added the While the day we small stuffed bear and called it words to the tune, and the song celebrate may Teddy's Bear (after receiving became the starting point for a day of change, having a permission from the President to fun. Teddy Bear's Picnic Day is picnic with our teddy bears is always name it after him) and placed it in his officially July 10th (no one is sure why how we celebrate. Make a whole day toy shop window. as the composer's birthday was July of it by incorporating games, songs, In 1907 John Walter Brannen wrote a 20th) but Teddy Bear's Picnic Days crafts, even learning experiences but, tune that he called The Teddy Bear's are celebrated throughout the year - above all, have fun with your bear! Music: Teddy Bears’ Picnic Song
The song Teddy Bears' Picnic is believed to be public domain; below are the lyrics while you can check out these website links for the tune: http://www.preschoolkids.net/tbear_theme.htm http://www.saturn-soft.net/Music/Music1/MIDI/Children/Menu.htm http://www.flutetunes.com/tunes.php?id=395
If you go out in the woods today If you go out in the woods today, You're sure of a big surprise. You'd better not go alone. If you go out in the woods today It's lovely out in the woods today, You'd better go in disguise. But safer to stay at home. For every bear that ever there was For every bear that ever there was Will gather there for certain, because Will gather there for certain, because Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic. Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic. CHORUS CHORUS Picnic time for teddy bears, Every teddy bear, that's been good The little teddy bears are having a lovely time today. Is sure of a treat today Watch them, catch them unawares, There's lots of wonderful things to eat And see them picnic on their holiday. And wonderful games to play See them gaily dance about. They love to play and shout. Beneath the trees, where nobody sees And never have any cares. They'll hide and seek as long as they please At six o'clock their mommies and daddies Today's the day the teddy bears have their picnic. Will take them home to bed Because they're tired little teddy bears. Teddy Bear Picnic Field Trip Look for events held within your local Vancouver. Some of these are annual community. events have been going on for 20 The BC Wildlife Park in Kamloops has years! They may give you the a Teddy bear Picnic Day as does opportunity for a field trip and to tie Stewart Farm in Surrey, and the into your own Teddy Bear Picnic Day. towns of Whistler and North
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Page 5 Game: Hunting for Bears
Supplies: game, taking into consideration or give them a time frame to find a Teddy bears or teddy bear stickers your meeting space for this day. certain number of them. If at camp, have a game where the Not many spaces to hide Instructions: girls hide with their teddy bears. teddy bears? Then use The first game that comes to mind If the girls hiding themselves is not teddy bear stickers that as it is directly mentioned in the an option, hide the teddies--you can are easy for the girls to song is Hide and Seek--use your vary the game by using noises as place in tiny hidden spots! imagination as to how to play this the seeker gets closer to the bears Game: Which Bear Am I?
Supplies: bear she is! Boo-Boo Bear Pictures or names of famous bears Need some famous bears?: Teddy Ruxpin printed onto paper Smokey the Bear ANY of the Care Bears (10 Masking tape or safety pins Yogi Bear original plus lots added) Winnie the Pooh The 3 Bears from Goldilocks Instructions: Baloo of the Jungle Book and the 3 bears This is a form of Twenty Questions. Berenstein Bears Pooky (Garfield's Bear) Each girl gets a picture or the name Paddington Bear Rupert Bear of a famous bear pinned on her Fozzie Bear Gummi Bears back-she can ask only questions Snuggles (the fabric softener Blinky Bill the Little Koala that have yes or no answers of the Bear) Brer Bear other girls until she guesses which Cindy Bear Game: Picnic Blanket Bear Toss
Supplies: Instructions: Or, use two blankets to toss teddies Teddy bears Use a blanket or your picnic from one blanket to the other Blanket tablecloth to toss teddies in the Or, have one side of the blanket air—you can see whose goes the holders try to get the teddies over highest the other side of the blanket. Game: Going on a Picnic Supplies: picnic and he/she is bringing" and a banana). none something that starts with the letter A variant of this game that can be A (for example, an apple). fun is to have the item start with the Instructions: Player 2 repeats what Player 1 said first letter of the player's name. For For a quieter game play a version of and then adds a second item example, Mary says her bear will this game where Player 1 starts with beginning with the letter B, so on bring marshmallows... the phrase "My bear is going on a and so on (for example, an apple Game: Teddy Bear Relay Supplies: while crawling, under their chin Teddy bears where they have to transfer the bear to another girl, between their Instructions: knees as they hop...use your Create relay races where girls have imagination and the possibilities are to carry their bear on their back endless!
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Page 6 Arts: Using the Arts in Your Teddy Bear Picnic
Dance: Have the girls make up a What would happen if the teddy bears are. Aside from black and white, there dance to the tune of the Teddy Bears' came to life in the toybox or playroom? are a thousand different browns. Give Picnic. Ask them to incorporate their Have the girls create a skit. the girls an outline of a teddy bear teddy bears. Music: What other songs have bears? done on heavy paper or board. Using Drama: Get the girls involved in how it The Bear Went Over the Mountain, glue or modge podge have the girls would be to be a bear: have them act Going on a Bear Hunt is a great repeat create their bear by sprinkling a variety out hibernating, stretching, trying to song found in Campfire Activities, and of materials on the picture: Cinnamon, get honey, eating honey or ants, of course, learn the words to the coconut, sand, coffee grounds, catching a fish from the stream, Teddy Bears' Picnic. sawdust, salt, pepper, whatever is available. Have them name their bear. climbing a tree, lumbering after Art: Ask the girls what colour bears another bear. STEM: Teddies and STEM Having fun with your teddy bear can for a minute. Then, taking a Ziploc bag floats to earth or crash lands! also be a chance to learn. Here are full of shortening, place a second some opportunities to incorporate Ziploc bag over the hand of a girl and STEM: have her push her hand into the center of the shortening. Then have her put Have the girls take their her hand (completely encased in Create the mystery of the missing teddies to the TEDDY shortening) back into the water. How teddy bear! Have a CSI portion where BEAR CLINIC. There they much longer is she able to keep her the girls examine different paw prints, can learn to weigh their hand there? How does this translate to examine a scene for clues, follow a teddies--is the biggest bears? trail and solve the mystery. always the heaviest? Why or why not? Can the girls Are polar bears really Have the girls read about teddies in arrange their teddies in white? Take two space--the link to this news is http:// order of size, weight, etc. glasses of hot liquid— www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/ wrap one in clear article-1091896/Out-world-British- Take a jar and fill it with graham teddy plastic and one in white cloth. Let them teddy-bears-strapped-helium-weather- bear crackers. Have the girls estimate sit and then return to them after a balloon-reach-edge-space.html how many crackers in the jar at the period of time. Which is the warmest Introduce veterinary medicine and beginning of the meeting. Reveal the still? The plastic is warmer. Polar create a Teddy Bear Clinic. Have the answer later and have fun eating the bears aren't really white as white girls stage accidents crackers. reflects heat. Their hairs are clear and (there's some DRAMA absorb heat down to their skin and again) and have them Where are bears their hairs are hollow reflecting the take their bears to a found? Well, there's light through making them look white. two in the sky-Ursa veterinary clinic where Major and Ursa Have the girls try to they learn some basic Minor–have the girls create parachutes for first aid and care of locate them on a their teddy bears—give animals. sky map, hear a them materials and Have a supply of basic first aid legend about how the bears came to have them work supplies and even toy stethoscopes, be there. together to create a doctors' bags, etc as well as parachute. Strap them on introducing the need for rest and quiet Discuss how bears stay warm. Have and see if the teddy bear when ill. the girls put their hands into ice water International: Send a Bear on Vacation!
Finish off a series of meetings with have holidays planned, or have unusual places and get into the spirit your Teddy Bear Picnic—have the parents going on a trip. Make sure of the adventure. Start the bear in a girls begin the series by sending a that their journey is recorded and small backpack so as to keep bear on vacation! comes with photographs and even everything together. Then at the Have a bear at the beginning of the mementoes. You could have a couple Teddy Bear picnic your bear(s) can year that goes with girls who either of bears going in the unit—I've had be the guest of honour as you explore some parents go overseas, to where they have been!
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Page 7 Craft: Kirigami Picnic Basket
1. Take a square piece of paper 7. Flip over the 2. Fold paper in half diagonally paper 3. With long side down, fold one 8. Fold in half corner down to edge of bottom 9. Cut along dotted 4. Unfold line, then unfold 5. Fold the right corner along the 10. Fold down the crease you just made flap on the front 6. Fold the left corner the same way 11. Tuck the back flap in Craft: Bean Bag Bear Supplies: Instructions: One sock-white 1. Fill the sock to within about 1 inch secure top piece of ovals at or tan or brown of the top of the sock (sock should divided half. Dried beans or be cut if too long). Leave some 4. Cut two felt circles to be bear ears rice room for allowing the beans to -secure at top of bean bag head Felt-white or plump down around the tied-off 5. Cut two felt circles to be bear feet- black or brown- end. secure with glue at bottom sides of one piece same 2. Put an elastic tightly around the bean bag body. colour as sock (or end to secure--this end may be 6. Cut smaller felt circles in close) and one piece contrasting glued. Place the sock on its tied contrasting colour to be paw prints Yarn and/or elastics end. Divide the sock on feet Glue approximately halfway and tie off 7. Cut three ovals and two circles in Scissors to divide. The smaller half should contrasting colour to be inner ear Wiggle eyes be the top half as this will be the pieces and mouth. Black pompom head. 8. Attach pompom nose and wiggle 3. Cut two felt ovals to be bear arms- eyes. Voila, your new bear! More Craft Ideas
Make a stick mask. Take a paper when doing the Arts. surroundings and create their teddy plate, a cupcake liner, felts, Have the girls string Honeycomb bear's home. Add some teddy construction paper or cardstock and cereal necklaces. They then can eat grahams to make the home lived in! a stick (chopstick, dowelling, large them through the picnic. Make edible playdough with honey tongue depressor) and make a bear Make a bear cave. Have the girls and/or peanut butter (the recipes mask. Cut two eyes out. Draw a staple or glue a brown paper bag abound on the internet--just type in nose and mouth on the cupcake that has been crumpled and/or cut "edible playdough") and have the liner and paste to plate. Cut out two onto a styrofoam meat tray or girls create teddy bears which they ears and paste on. Attach to stick cardboard base. Have them collect then can eat! and have girls play with their masks materials from their natural Service Project Ideas
Guiding is all about Community animals and find a Go closer to home-adopt a bear Service so why not add that aspect to charity to give them to from the BC Wildlife Park in your Teddy Bear Picnic Day. or investigate whether Kamloops--just follow this link: http:// While collecting funds for the CWFF your fire hall or www.bczoo.org/adoptananimal.htm talk about the WWF—the World hospital or police Learn about Moon Bears and visit Wildlife Fund. The girls can band station uses the the Animals Asia site http:// together to adopt a panda bear or TEDDY BEAR www.animalsasia.org/eng/kids/ polar bear. PROGRAM to help how_help/index.htm where the girls Hold a Teddy Bear Drive–collect children when they are subjected to can learn how to help by becoming teddy bears and other stuffed emergencies. activists in their own right.
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Page 8 July Strawberry Sundae Day 7 Let’s Make Strawberry Sundaes!
Who would have thought that there sweet and delicious Ingredients & instructions: would be a day designated to a and can be used in Put 2 small scoops homemade ice- delicious dessert? When the warm wide variety of cream in a bowl weather arrives, nothing cools you ways from jams, Top with 4 strawberries, hulled & better than ice cream, and nothing drinks, salads, halved goes better with ice cream than baking and more. Drizzle about 2 tbsp homemade strawberries and whipped cream, so Not only are they strawberry sauce over the top celebrate with a Strawberry Sundae! tasty, but they are Add 2 marshmallows, quartered Strawberries are the first fruit to come also full of vitamins Add colourful sprinkles & whipped out in the spring. The berries are and minerals. cream. Garnish with 1 maraschino cherry Facts About Strawberries Strawberries are the The United States grow the most meaning that they are used to make only fruit that has seeds strawberries in the world, followed other foods look better. grow on the outside. by Spain. Many butterflies and moths feed on There are more than 20 The most common is the Garden strawberry plants. types of strawberry Strawberry. The word strawberry comes from plants. The strawberry was considered the Old English word One cup of strawberries (144 poisonous in Argentina until the mid “streawberige”. grams) contains approximately 45 -1800′s. Michael Kent produced the first calories. Strawberries are “accessory” fruits cultivated strawberry in 1806. Recipe: Tin Can or Ziploc Bag Ice Cream Tin Can Method full, duct tape the lid onto the 3 lb Instructions: can. Supplies: 1. Chill ice cream mixture overnight 5. Roll between 2 or more people on in fridge, then put 1 cup in med 1-3 lb clean coffee can with lid the ground for 10 minutes – a level freezer bag and seal securely. 1-1 lb clean coffee can with lid and fairly smooth area works best. 2. Put 1st bag into a 2nd med bag Duct tape 6. Open lid and drain ice water. and seal to secure against 7. Open 1 lb lid and stir, making sure Ingredients: leakage. to scrape sides well. 1 cup milk 3. Fill large bag half full of ice, add ½ 8. Re-tape, re-pack with ice and salt, 1 cup whipping cream cup of salt & mix. Put small re-tape large can and start rolling ½ cup sugar sealed bag in the middle & cover again. ½ tsp vanilla completely with ice. 9. This recipe makes about 3 cups of Fruit (smashed), chocolate, etc. 4. Seal the larger bag securely and ice cream. Use fruit, chocolate or Kosher or Rock salt put it into a couple of layers of sprinkles to flavor ice cream if Ice (crushed or small cubes) plastic shopping bags. desired. Instructions: 5. Shake the bag or use your hands Ziploc Bag Method to move the mixture in the small 1. Pour milk, cream, sugar, vanilla Supplies: bag around for 5-10 minutes. into 1-pound coffee can. 6. Carefully remove the small bag 2. Use duct tape to tape lid on 2 med Ziploc bags & 1 lg Ziploc bag and check to see if the ice cream securely. (must be heavy duty freezer bags) & is hard enough. If not, reseal 3. Put the 1 lb can inside the 3 lb 2-3 plastic grocery bags carefully, add more ice to the big can. 1 recipe of ice cream mixture as bag, seal and shake some more. 4. Layer ice and salt around the above 7. When done, enjoy! outside of the small can. When it’s
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Page 9 Recipe: Homemade Strawberry Sauce makes 2 cups Instructions: sauce before Ingredients: 1. Combine all ingredients in a bottling) blender or food processor. 3. Pour into two 1- 450 grams (1 pound) of cup jars, strawberries, washed and hulled 2. Pulse until berries are broken up, then blend until smooth. Taste leaving ½ an 1-2 Tbsp sugar inch at the top ½ teaspoon lemon juice and add more sugar if needed. (if you don’t like seeds, strain the of the jar, and freeze. Craft: Strawberry Sundae Hat Craft Trader Supplies: Cotton ball cotton ball shaped into a peak) A small Colourful seed beads 3. Add sprinkles (dab glue onto sundae glass (a White glue cotton and sprinkle with coloured plastic shot Hot glue seed beads) glass works well) Flat backed safety pin 4. Last, but not least, top with a Pink pompoms Instructions: cherry (a large red bead or Small red pompom) 1. Fill the glass with strawberry ice pompom or large 5. Glue pin to side of the cup and cream (pink pompoms). red seed bead you have a summer strawberry 2. Add whipped cream on top (a sundae hat craft. Craft: Strawberry Sundae Bath Salts Game: Strawberry, Supplies: Strawberry, Cherry 1 bag of Epsom salts Play this game as you would play ½ a box of Baking Soda “Duck, Duck, Goose”. 1 Box Moisturizing Bath Beads Instructions: 15 Sundae cups or similar 15 white bath scrubbies 1. All the girls sit in a circle facing 15 red or pink bath beads inwards. 15 straws in colour that works with 2. One girl is “it”. She walks around your sundae 3. Pour ¾ cup of Epsom salt mixture into each sundae cup. the circle, tapping each of the Instructions: 4. Top with a bath scrubby pushed other girls’ heads. As she taps 1. Mix the ingredients together down into the cup (whipped each girl, she says “strawberry”. adding more Epsom salts and cream). 3. Finally, she will tap a girl and say baking soda to make it go further. 5. Glue one of the bath beads to the “cherry!” 2. If the beads are coloured, you top (maraschino cherry), and tuck 4. The girl who was tapped “cherry” won’t need to add any colouring. a straw down the side. must get up and run around the
If not coloured, use a paste food outside of the circle, in the These make great gifts! colour to add a little colour. opposite direction as “it”, racing Game: Strawberry Toss “it” to make it back to her (now empty) spot in the circle. Supplies: or hula hoops. 5. The girl who remains standing is Red bean bags - you could make 2. Have the girls stand at a now “it” and begins the game designated throwing line and try your own to look like strawberries again. http://tinyurl.com/6wrjav9 to land their strawberries in the Buckets, boxes or hula hoops bucket. 3. Use your imagination - give points Instructions: for landing in smaller buckets or 1. Set up a series of buckets, boxes for long distance throws.
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Page 10 July Thread the Needle Day 25 History The Oxford needle" came from the way in which The term "threading the needle" also Dictionary of the dancers joined hands and went came to mean finding your way English Folklore through the arch formed by other through a difficult passage, either describes Thread dancers, thereby "threading" the physically or metaphorically such as the Needle as "needle's eye". (see reference) maneuvering through a difficult originally being a As the game became forgotten and problem. game or part of a antiquated, seamstresses and quilters game or a dance or part of a dance adopted the day as their own, giving Reference: Oxford Dictionary of English done in the Midsummer celebrations them an opportunity to showcase Folklore A Dictionary of English Folklore. as part of the full customs and their skills and celebrate their art. Copyright © 2000, 2003 by Oxford University festivities. The term "threading the Press. Arts: Original “Thread the Needle” Tune and Game
To learn the original tune and lyrics verses to this song; we have included players make a mistake. Any tune can for the Thread the Needle dancing just one version here. be used but there is a traditional tune game, take advantage of the online This game is played much like many (as cited above) and a number of The Traditional Games of version of children's games (such as London different lyrics that can be used, if England Scotland & Ireland , circa Bridge is Falling Down): the girls line wished. 1894. This game can be found up in pairs. Turning to each other, On the internet, Mama Lisa's World: starting on page 228 of Volume Two. they join hands and form an arch. The Children's Songs has some variants Volume One: http://archive.org/ first couple, joining one hand to their to check out, even a version played in details/traditionalgames01gommuoft partner, then "thread" their way Cameroon. There are also midi files Volume Two: http://archive.org/ through the arches. As they reach the available so you can hear the tune details/traditionalgames02gommuoft end, the next couple in line then start shown above: http:// to go through. The game is played www.mamalisa.com/blog/thread-the- There are two tunes and several until the "thread" is broken or the needle-games/ Game: Thread the Needle Magic!
Threading the Needle is a magic trick the short end close to you, It is important that you take the short done with a small piece of white rope. announce you will thread the loop end to loop through as when you pull 1. Holding approximately a 2 foot with the rope without letting go of forward with that piece, one of the loops on your thumb will come up and piece of white rope between your the rope. 3. You then quickly move your hand create the illusion you have threaded thumb and fingers, leave a piece the loop. approximately 8 inches long. forward passing it over the loop 2. Then bring the rope up around and voila! The loop is threaded. Practice makes perfect so have the girls repeat until they can show it to your thumb three turns , leaving a Now for how it works... their family. loop sticking up in the air. Holding
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Page 11 Healthy Lifestyles: Yoga Thread the Needle is hip width. 6. Take 5 to 10 deep breaths and a yoga pose.. what a 2. Bring one arm through your body then slowly come out of the pose great opportunity to to the other side with palm up by using your hand to push introduce yoga into 3. Relax your hips down onto your yourself up. the meeting and get feet while bringing your shoulder This is an easy pose to start with but some stretching and of the palm up arm down to the should still be done with caution. Now relaxing happening. floor. You then should be resting experiment and try a few other poses. We all need to relieve a little stress! on the outside of that shoulder. Combine this with recognizing your 4. Your head should then be lightly If you need visuals, check out these pulse and heartbeat when resting and touching the floor with the same links: moving--see how yoga compares... side cheek and ear as the arm http://yoga.isport.com/yoga-guides/ Instructions: you have palm up. how-to-do-thread-the-needle-pose-in- 5. Your weight should be resting yoga 1. Start on your hands and knees backwards onto your hips and http://www.yoohealth.com/790/table- with your hands and knees apart legs. and equal to your shoulder and poses-thread-the-needle-pose.html STEM: Science and Needles STEM Idea #1 of the washer is directly in your vision. and right eye see things differently Use Thread the Needle to help the Support the washer in the playdough and the brain combines the two girls learn about depth perception and so that it is rooted firmly. images to help us judge depth how important it is. Now move enough away from the perception. Moving your head does the same thing though not as easily. Rather than using an actual needle washer so that you must extend your STEM Idea #2 and thread, we can use bigger arm. materials that will demonstrate the Holding the dowel, now close one eye Try floating a needle on water. same principle as when we actually and try to put the dowelling through Discuss why you might be able to. try to thread a needle... the washer. Try the task with both Are you able to if it is a threaded You will need a pencil or thin piece of eyes open. needle? Why or why not? dowelling, a washer whose inner What do you notice? Try with your STEM Idea #3 diameter is slightly larger than the other hand and other eye closed. Try Learn about the sewing diameter of the pencil or dowelling the task with having one eye closed machine--how does it and a small lump of playdough or but with moving your head to get a actually work? What is clay. different angle. How does that affect the difference between you? Place the washer on its side with the a sewing machine needle and a hole facing to the side and the edge The girls are learning that the left eye regular needle? Games: Hula Hoops and Yo-Yos Thread the Needle is used in two tutorials/thread-the-needle-hula-hoop- You then bring your free hand finger different game toys - hula hoops and tutorial/ (that is in the string) up and towards yo-yos! Thread the Needle is a yo-yo move you while you bring your yo-yo hand In hula hooping, the that can be done if you are somewhat down and away riding the yo-yo along move is done with two skilled with a yo-yo--you need to be the string. hula hoops and, while able to make the yo-yo "sleep" first of As the yo-yo actually quite easy, all. reaches your free seems a little difficult to You then take your free hand and hand finger, take describe. A video place it along the string of the yo-yo your finger away, posted by so that you can bend your string hand jerk the string and HulaHoopers.ca does a great job of down and place the string of the yo- wind the yo-yo up. showing the moves and can be a lot yo between the two halves of the yo- Easy? Not really, but with practice of fun for older girls. yo. you'll be "threading the needle" in no http://hulahoopers.ca/hula-hooping- time.
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Page 12 This issue of the FunFinder is a two part document. Please download Part 2 of the June 2012 FunFinder from: http://www.bc-girlguides.org/resources/provincial-newsletters/
Contents of Part 2 include: Swiss National Day International Art Appreciation Day National Potato Day Better Breakfast Month Mexican Independence Day International Peace Day Math Storytelling Day Asian Harvest Festival Area/District Program Adviser Position Description
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee This issue of the FunFinder is a two part document. Please download Part 1 of the June 2012 FunFinder from: http://www.bc-girlguides.org/resources/provincial-newsletters/
Contents of Part 1 include: Title Page Program Events News Chocolate Day Teddy Bear Picnic Day Strawberry Sundae Day Thread the Needle Day
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Aug Swiss National Day 1 Independence Day! In Switzer- holiday in 1891, but it was chosen spectacular sight. land they because their oath of confederation Some celebratory events on this day celebrate was signed on this day in 1291. include gymnastics demonstrations, the inde- This holiday is celebrated like other children carrying paper lanterns pendence of national holidays around the world: through the streets, special breads their country with barbeques and fireworks! They with a Swiss flag on top, and bonfires from Austrian rulers on August 1st. also illuminate the 25 meter high lit on the tops of hills. They only began celebrating this Rhine waterfalls on this day - a Craft: Swiss Cheese and Swiss Army Knife Hat Craft Traders
Cheese 4. Attach the white cross to the Instructions: handle using double-sided tape or 1. Cut a square glue. of yellow fun 5. Attach a label (if desired) with a foam (my pin. sample was 6. You can close the knife to hang Some fun and easy crafts to 1½” x 1½”). from your hat, or leave it open as represent Switzerland are these 2. Punch holes in the foam. shown. tradable hat crafts. The Swiss 3. Attach a label with a pin. cheese could be made by girls as young as Sparks, but a little more Knife Instructions: dexterity is required for the knife. 1. Cut the knife pieces from the red, Supplies: white and grey fun foam. A template is provided. There is no Red, white, grey, yellow fun foam need to cut the holes. Small fasteners (brads) 2. Place the grey knife piece behind Double-sided tape or glue the red handle piece and attach Scissors with a small fastener. Hole punches (two sizes, if 3. Place the bottle opener piece possible) behind the handle piece at the Safety pins other end and attach with a small Labels (if desired) fastener, ensuring that the knife
point does not get caught. Healthy Lifestyles: Swiss Fondue A traditional fruit and vegetables. Instructions: Swiss food is Ingredients: 1. In a medium saucepan, bring the the cheese apple juice just to the boiling point fondue. It was 1 ¼ cups apple juice 2 cups cheddar cheese, shredded then reduce to a low simmer. a winter dish, 2. Add cheeses, flour and garlic made using 2 cups Swiss or Gruyere cheese, shredded powder and stir until melted. ingredients 3. Transfer the sauce to a fondue available in the winter: cheese, wine 2 tbsp. flour ¼ tsp. garlic powder pot. and bread. In Switzerland, it is 4. Using a fondue fork, dip the traditional to only dip bread into the Dippers: chunks of bread, fruit or vegetables dippers in to the cheese mixture. fondue, but you could adapt and add No double dipping!
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Page 13 Music: Our Chalet Song One of our four and is high up in the mountains on Also on the website is a world centres is the outskirts of the Swiss alpine downloadable version of the Our located in village, Adelboden. You can learn Chalet song. Visit http:// Switzerland. Our about Our Chalet by visiting their www.ourchalet.ch/en/resources/ Chalet was website at http://www.ourchalet.ch/en/ document/view/1323 to view the lyrics founded in 1932 home. for the song and to listen to it sung. Arts: Picoulet Dance This is a traditional circle dance from body part. You can watch this dance and English lyrics at http:// Switzerland. The girls stand in a in action at http://www.youtube.com/ www.mamalisa.com/? circle and walk around while singing. watch?v=94KCtiBJDWI t=es&p=2516&c=126 as With each added body part in the Traditionally, this song is sung in well as hear the tune and song, the girls shake all the previously French, but you can find both French download the sheet music mentioned body parts plus the new at the same site. Craft: Scherenschnitte
This Swiss craft Supplies: from the edges.. you need to involves cutting coloured puncture the paper to start cutting a design out of paper (we out the design. coloured paper, used pink 2. Glue the finished Scherenschnitte usually black, construc- onto the mounting paper. and then tion paper) displaying it on - print the For more templates, check out the a lighter template following websites: coloured paper, usually white. By onto this cutting out the outline and fine http:// paper. papercutting.blogspot.ca/2010/02/ features of your design, the white white paper to mount the cut paper then shows through in the template-tuesday-papercuts-for- onto afterwards kids.html background of your picture. Your scissors http://www.basteln-mit-elisabeth.de/ entire design should be cut from one glue stick single sheet of paper. scherensch/scherens.htm Instructions: http://www.papercutters.info/SA/ We are going to make a Galleries/ scherenschnitte with a heart and a 1. Cut the design from the coloured traditional Swiss image, a tulip. paper. Be careful to NOT cut Game: Don’t Look Back, The Fox Walks Around Supplies: circle, carrying the object. 7. If, however, the fox is tagged, she A small object, 3. Behind one girl in the circle, the continues to be the fox and such as a piece fox secretly drops the object. chooses another girl to drop the of fabric. 4. When the girl who had the object object behind. dropped behind her realizes that it 8. If the fox is very sneaky, and the is there, she jumps up and tries to girl who had the object dropped catch the fox. behind her doesn’t realize that it 5. The fox runs around the circle, is there, the fox can run around Instructions: trying to reach the spot where the the circle before the girl realizes 1. To play this game, have the girls object was dropped without being that she must run, and she sit in a circle facing each other tagged. becomes a "lazy egg." The lazy (towards the center). 6. If the fox makes it back to the egg sits in the middle of the circle 2. One girl will be the fox. The fox empty spot, the other girl now until someone else becomes a walks around the outside of the becomes the fox. lazy egg and takes her place.
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Page 14 Aug International Art 9 Appreciation Day Celebrate Art! Did you know that there is a day set your eye, stop a moment and capture If you can't go visit aside in the summer for Arts that image. Share your findings and an art gallery, Appreciation? Last August, people impressions as you go or when your create your own! around the world were encouraged to walk is finished. Collect books from take a moment and ponder the art Paint to music. Play a the library and around them. Your Program few instrumental songs prints or posters Committee thought that this is a that are quite different from a specific celebration worth sharing! The links (The Nutcracker Suite artist, genre, or to Program are endless... here is just provides good variety) time period and then go on a Gallery a sampling of things you could do with and let the girls explore Walk around your meeting room. your girls and their possible program the feel of the music. Regardless of which Art activities you connections: Invite a local artist (professional or do with your unit, make sure to take Go on a walk around your other!) to your meeting and have time to appreciate the art. In your unit meeting place, digital them share their work with the girls. discussions, have them tell you what cameras or sketch pads in Then give the girls an opportunity to they see, which details stand out, how hand, and look at everyday learn and create in this style. a piece of art makes them feel. Let landmarks through an artist's (Brownies ~Artist at Work badge). them tell you what they like about it -- perspective. When something catches or what they don't. International Arts: Warli Art
For International Art Appreciation artwork reflects a connectedness to its relation to man. They depict a Day, why not try Warli Art, a mother earth and is done by women number of cultural themes related to traditional art form from Maharashtra, using powdered rice paint on the household, agriculture and other India? Local Pune artist and friend of terracotta coloured walls of their mud social activities. Mountains, forests, Sangam World Centre, Punchi huts. Warli art is a pictograph which trees, and animals are all part of the Mahtani, shared this style of art with narrates the cycle of life in nature with paintings. the Community The basic Program participants components of Warli in January 2012. The art are lines, dots styles and patterns of and triangles. Warli Art are easily Women have an adaptable for all ages extra round shape and can be created on for a hair bun to anything from paper differentiate from and cards to cloth and men. pottery. Warlis are one of the major tribes in the state of Maharashtra, north of Mumbai. They are known for their paintings throughout the world. Traditionally, this
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Page 15 Aug National Potato Day 19 Challenge: Cross Canada Challenge - Atlantic Region Consider doing Background Information: PEI is Half of the potatoes grown in PEI the Cross famous for its potatoes. Here are are used to make processed frozen Canada some interesting facts about PEI french fries, potato chips and other Challenge from potatoes: products. the Girl Guides of Farmers in PEI have been growing The potato is so important to PEI that Canada national website (found in potatoes since 1771. there is even an entire museum Member Zone). The PEI section of PEI has rich sandy soil, which is the dedicated to the vegetable. the challenge contains a lot of potato perfect environment for growing For more information on PEI check activities. potatoes. out: www.gov.pe.ca Games: Potato Olympics The Challenge Instructions: Teeing areas Set stations up Get into teams of four and put a Jump ropes or rope around the room: potato in a spoon. Try to run across Pencils, paper, cards with places in the room and back without dropping PEI on them such as: 1. Potato Sack Charlottetown, Cavendish, East Races it. If you drop it, pick it up and start again. Once you have returned, you Point, Alberton, Miminegash, 2. Potato Spoon Relay Lennox Island, Souris, and Borden. 3. Hot Potato Competition will pass the potato and spoon to the Instructions: 4. PEI Potato Golf next girl on your team. As a large group or in smaller groups Hot Potato In groups of three or four, create a participate in the following activities. golf hole, which will be named after a Supplies: place in PEI. Each group gets Potato Sack Races Potatoes materials to build their hole: markers, Can be done as an entire group or in Stop watch rope and a card with the name of the relay formation. Instructions: place on it. Once all the holes are Supplies: made, grab a partner, a scorecard Sit in a circle and pass the potato all and a “potato.” Start at any hole you Garbage bags or pillowcases the way around the circle as quickly want and alternate throwing your Instructions: as possible. You will be timed so you potato until you hit the cone or marker continue to pass the potato until you at that hole. Record the number of Get into your sack and hop to the get your best time. throws on your scorecard and add up finish line. the points at the end. At this point you PEI Potato Golf Potato Spoon Relay can discuss what you know about PEI Supplies: and if anyone has ever visited Supplies: Foam potatoes or balls that are Canada’s smallest province. Plastic spoons “pretend” potatoes Potatoes Cones or markers Game: Potato Puzzle Supplies: Instructions: potato back together like One potato per patrol, cut into about 1. Have the girls gather in circles or a 3-D puzzle. patrols. 5 pieces before the meeting 4. Work as a 2. Give each patrol a cut up potato Plastic Ziploc bags team and use toothpicks to put (in a ziploc bag) and a stack of Toothpicks (round, not flat) the potato back together. sturdy toothpicks. 3. The girls will need to put the
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Page 16 Craft: Potato Stamp Art From the PEI section of the Atlantic Supplies: be 1/8 of an inch deep. Try to Cross Canada Potatoes keep the potato moist – this will Challenge Paring knife help the graphic stay in place. Create a Acrylic or fabric paint Slice around the outside of the souvenir T- White t-shirts potato cutting about 1/8 of an inch shirt from PEI computer graphics (use simple of the top layer. Dry potato with a and decorate shapes from clip art) towel. it using potato Scissors. 2. Girls can then brush on paint and stamp the image and set aside to prints. Have you ever been given a T- Instructions: shirt from a place someone has dry. visited? What is usually on these 1. The Guiders will have to cut a Options: Instead of decorating t-shirts, shirts? This is your change to design potato in half and place the create greeting cards or wrapping your own souvenir t-shirt. Cut out the graphic on the potato and cut paper from large sheets of plain graphics that you want on your shirt. around the shape. The cut should packing paper. Environment: Grow Your Own Potatoes Directions for paper cup. Fill the bottom of the Instructions: planting white cup with pebbles. 1. Place a fat potato that fits easily potatoes in soil: 5. Fill the cup with soil. into a clear plastic cup. 6. Plant your piece of potato in the Supplies: 2. Stick toothpicks into the sides of soil. The growing eye should stick the potato around the middle. Potato out of the soil at the top. 3. Place the wide end of your potato Soil 7. Put the cup on a saucer, water into the clear plastic cup and rest Cup the soil and keep it in a sunny the toothpicks on the rim of the Knife spot. cup. Instructions: 4. Add water to your cup until the Directions for planting a white potato 1. Select potatoes that have eyes bottom of the potato is covered. in water: that have started to grow. 5. Put the cup with the potato in a 2. Using a paring knife, cut into the Supplies: cool dark place and leave there for one to two weeks. potato and around the eye in a Potato 6. When the roots and stems square shape. Clear plastic cup (shoots) grow, place your potato 3. Cut out a large piece of the potato Toothpicks near a sunny window. including the eye. Water 4. Poke holes in the bottom of your Online Resources Craft: Potato Head Potato Party colouring book: http:// Prince Edward Island Potatoes Create your own Potato Head People www.nourishinteractive.com/ activity book and teacher resource by decorating potatoes with beads, nutrition-education-printables/512- with activity sheets: http:// toothpicks, yarn and other craft chef-solus-healthy-potato-coloring- peipotato.org/english/ supplies. See these links for more story-book learning_ctr.asp ideas on how to create a unique potato person:
Potato activity sheets: http:// Potatoes to colour: http:// http://www.freekidscrafts.com/ www.nourishinteractive.com/ www.supercoloring.com/pages/ mr_and_mrs_potato_head- nutrition-education-printables/ category/vegetables/potatos/ e1348.html http://www.craftideasonline.com/ category/58-fun-potato-facts-for- potato_people.shtml kids#seven-types-of-potatoes- http://melissahoward.suite101.com/ printables make-a-st-patricks-potato-head- a44758
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Page 17 Better Breakfast Month Sept Let’s Celebrate Breakfast! breakfast to fuel our bodies. This is Once the girls have done this, you something the girls can have fun can have a meeting and do breakfast doing and learning different ways to for dinner as a unit. After the girls have a good breakfast. You can do have looked at the Canada Food this over a couple of meetings. Guide they can plan a breakfast they Get the girls to spend time looking at want to make at their meeting. When Canada’s Food Guide. They can plan they have planned out their menu out what they should be eating for they can do some of the shopping, as breakfast and make sure they are well. getting some of their daily You might also want to see if a chef September is Better Breakfast Month. requirements to start the day. If your from your area can come to a meeting How many people actually know what meeting location is somewhere with and do a fun breakfast cooking class the word breakfast means? It means internet access they can even create with the girls. Or you have a breaking the fast from not eating their own food guide. Go to http:// nutritionist come and join your since the night before. Breakfast is www.hc-sc.gc.ca/fn-an/food-guide- meeting and talk to the girls about the first meal of the day and it is so aliment/index-eng.php to see the food healthy eating and making the right important to have a good start to our guide and to create your own. choices for breakfast to fuel their day by having a healthy and filling bodies for the day. Craft: Bacon & Eggs Hat Craft Trader Supplies: Instructions: the back of the bottle cap. Bottle caps 1. Cut out the felt/foam in the shape 4. Glue the pin to the back. White, yellow and brown felt or craft of eggs, egg yolk and bacon. foam 2. Glue pieces inside the bottle cap. Popsicle sticks 3. Cut the popsicle stick to about Pins 1½” long and use a marker or Scissors paint to make it look like the White glue handle of a frying pan. Glue it to Black markers or paint More Craft Ideas Music: Ham & Eggs Buy solid-coloured aprons (Michaels sells them) and have the girls use fabric paint to create their own designs on them. Create your own placemats for your breakfast meeting. See http:// familyfun.go.com/crafts/home- garden-projects/kitchen-crafts/ kitchen-table-place-mats/ or http:// familyfun.go.com/crafts/home- garden-projects/kitchen-crafts/ kitchen-table-place-mats/ for ideas. Divide the group into two parts: one stands on “ham” and “flip,” the other Make necklaces using yarn or string stands on “eggs” and “flop.” Learn the tune at http://english4room.info/eng/songs/832-h and use different cereals that have -unit-119--ham-and-eggs- holes in them. Public domain. Reproduced from Campfire Activities, Girl Guides of Canada.
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Page 18 Sept Mexican Independence Day 16 What is Mexican Independence Day?
Did you know that September 15th with the ringing of There are many stands set up that sell September 16th is bells at 11:00 pm, and is followed by a finger foods, Mexican candies and Mexican day of celebrations on the 16th. punch. Restaurants serve traditional Independence Day? Mexicans all over the world celebrate Mexican dishes like Mole Poblano (a This is the day that the day with parades, fiestas, picnics traditional chile sauce), Chiles en Mexico celebrates and fireworks. Streets, houses, Nogada (chiles stuffed with meat, their independence buildings and cars are decorated with topped with walnut sauce and from Spain. In flags, balloons and sombreros in the garnished with pomegranate seeds), 1810, a Mexican priest, Father Hidalgo national colours of green, white and Guacamole (an avocado dip) and started a revolt against the Spanish. red. The Zócalo (main square) is chips. lighted up like Christmas. Mariachi They were finally defeated in 1821. The celebration ends in colourful bands play in the streets and people September 16th is the day that fireworks show on the evening of dress in traditional clothes or clothing Mexicans remember the beginning of September 16th during which you’ll in national colours. the struggle for freedom. hear “Viva Mexico” which means Long Today, the celebration starts on Food is very important to the holiday. Live Mexico! Craft: Papel Picado
Papel picado are paper banners that 2. Fold in half top to fold 5. Fold the top edge of the tissue are strung together and used to bottom (fig 2), then over a piece of string and tape decorate home and store windows. fold again top to into place. You can hang them Supplies: bottom individually or put several on a 3. Using a pair of sharp long piece, alternating the colours green, white and red tissue paper scissors, cut shapes Fig.2 and hang like a banner. cut into 8” X 10” rectangles. into the folded edges Scissors, glue & string of the paper (like making a paper snowflake). Use Instructions: fold simple shapes like hearts, flowers, diamonds, circles etc. 1. Fold a piece of 4. Unfold the paper to reveal the tissue paper in half Fig. 1 designs. side to side (fig1) Craft: Mexican Flag
Supplies: The section closest to the fold is over and do the other side. Just green, the middle is white and the make sure that green is behind White construction green, white behind white and red last section is red. paper behind red. Green, white & red 3. Tear tissue paper into 1.5 x 2” 6. When both sides are semi-dry, lay tissue paper squares. flag on table and open the card. 12” dowel or pencil 4. Put glue on first section of flag. Put glue down the folded edge Glue, pencil, ruler Crumple green construction paper and place the dowel or pencil into small lose balls and stick to Instructions: along it. Glue the rest of the card the glue. Make sure that the together and let dry. 1. Fold construction paper in half background is totally covered. 7. If you would like your flag to look short side to short side. Repeat with white for the middle more authentic, print a flag from 2. With fold on the left, use a ruler section and red for the last the internet, cut out the coat of and pencil to divide the section. arms and glue it onto the white construction paper into thirds. 5. Once dried, you can turn the flag section of your flag.
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Page 19 Word Search: Learn About Mexico Used with permission from http://www.earthyfamily.com/ Find the words from the list below and circle them. HINT: Words are also written backwards, diagonally, and any combination of up, down, etc. Z C V I V A V I L L A F A 1. Peso (Mexican currency) 2. Calaca (Paper skeletons seen during the Day of the Dead) D C A L A C A C M N O P M 3. Mariachi (Mexican music) 4. Maya (Pre-Hispanic culture found in Mexico and Central America) I M A R I A C L P M H U Z 5. Aztec (Pre-Hispanic culture found in central Mexico) E A Z L S A L S A F T B A 6. Chihuahua (A northern state of Mexico) 7. Tortilla (Typical flat bread in Mexico made of corn) G Y T T A M A L E S Z A C 8. Calavera (Rhyming poetry written during the Day of the Dead and public figures and family members) O A E X L V E R A C R U Z 9. Veracruz (A state in southern Mexico) 10. Chile (Hot peppers) R A C H I L E L B P Q E P 11. Mole (A typical sauce used during special occasions with I H I J L T O R T I L L A ingredients such as chocolate and plantains) 12. Maíz (Spanish for corn) V A B M L H L O A L P A T 13. Atole (A hot beverage made of corn) 14. Diego Rivera (Famous Mexican muralist, husband of Frida Kahlo) E A B A L M M W Q O A P O 15. Tamales (Typical food of Mexico made of corn and stuffed with R C H I H U A H U A H O L meat or vegetables) 16. Nopal (Edible cactus) A Z P S L S A Í A K U N E 17. Frida Kahlo (Famous Mexican artist, wife of Diego Rivera) 18. Salsa (Typical sauce used in Mexican cooking made with tomatoes P P E S O A C J Z P E Z V and chiles) 19. Orozco (Mexican artist who also painted murals) F R I D A K A H L O M G U 20. ¡Viva Villa! (Long live Villa! A typical revolutionary cry in honor of O U O R O Z C O Y E A T L revolutionary hero Pancho Villa) Game: Benito Juarez Says
Before starting the game, explain to playing the leader and asking the “Benito Juarez says, the girls that Benito Juarez (Ben-ee- others to do what she tells them. For do this” (make toe W-are-ez) was a Zapotec Indian example, the leader could say "Benito motion of clapping who was born into a family that was Juarez says spin around" or "Benito hands). Repeat very, very poor. He worked hard and, Juarez says pat your head." The other several times with with a lot of determination and love for girls must keep doing the action until different orders, then his country, became the president of the leader says "Benito Juarez says say “do this” Mexico and defeated the French who stop" for each prior instruction. The Say something in had ruled Mexico for five years. The girls can all have a turn being the casual manner like “straighten the Mexicans loved him very much! leader. line” Instructions: Getting tricky – for older children Single out players like “Sarah, move back into line” This game is similar to “Simon Says”. Give orders quickly Try something like “What’s your In the game, each girl takes a turn Give orders by making motions, ie name?” Arts: Mexican Hat Dance Music and dance are a big part of Mexican folk song girl goes to the middle of the Mexican Tradition. Children learn to with a similar beat. circle and performs her own dance at an early age, and the Instructions: dance around the sombrero. Mexican Hat Dance is part of the They can be as creative as they Elementary school curriculum. They 1. Place the sombrero in the middle like. start with a very basic dance similar to of the room. 5. The rest of the girls stand and the one that follows, then gradually 2. Have the girls form a large circle clap to the beat of the music. add the traditional elements to it. around the sombrero. 6. The girl in the centre dances until 3. When the music starts, the girls Supplies: another girl’s name is called, at should skip around the ring, which time she rejoins the rest of Sombrero holding hands. the group in the circle. Mexican Hat Dance Music or a 4. When a girl’s name is called, that
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Page 20 Sept International Peace Day 21 Service Project: Pinwheels for Peace See http:// colour or paint symbols of peace to Scouting groups can be www.pinwheelsforpeace.com/ for visually express their feelings. They ordered off a link from information on this project. will assemble these pinwheels and on this website. International Day of Peace, Sept. 21, This is an International For symbols of Peace when all of the pinwheels are planted Project done by schools and web-sites with Peace information outside as a public statement and art and youth groups try the following: around the world. exhibit/installation. The spinning of the pinwheels in the wind will spread http://www.planetpals.com/ Students create peacesymbols.html pinwheels, of all shapes thoughts and feelings about peace throughout the country, the world! Log http://www.designboom.com/ and sizes –the pinwheels will be contemporary/peace.html decorated with their thoughts about onto the above website to enter your "war and peace / tolerance/ living in location/ group onto the world map See the March 2012 issue of harmony with others" on one side. On and see where these projects are FunFinder (page 6) for instructions on the other side, the students can draw, being done. Crests for Guiding and how to make your own pinwheel. Craft: Reverse Tie-Dye T-Shirts
Create Reverse Tie- Instructions: edges of your Dye Peace T-shirts 1. Have the girls draw Peace designs. Don't which work best with saturate the shirt, or deep intense coloured symbols on old rubber placemats (found at thrift stores). You can the bleach will seep shirts. Decorate with under the design and symbols of peace also use the trefoil symbol (clip art it won't be a crisp such as flowers, from national website peace signs , doves and trefoils. www.girlguides.ca). Cut the image. 5. Wait a moment while the bleach Supplies: symbols out. 2. Lay the T-shirts out with starts to remove the colour from Rubber placemats newspaper inside the shirt (to the shirt. Ball point or permanent pens keep the bleach from running 6. Flip the shirt over and spray the Scissors back of it. onto back of shirt.) Bleach diluted 1:4 7. Plunge the shirt into a sink or pail vinegar 3. Lay the rubber symbols out on the of water with a cup of vinegar Spray bottle shirt. Gloves 4. With the bleach solution in the (this stops the bleach action). Newspaper spray bottle, spray the shirt from a 8. Hang the shirts to dry. Sink or pails of water (if outside) distance… concentrating on the 9. Enjoy and take a group photo! Music: Peace Songs
Search on youtube.com to listen to "Someday" by Alan Menken and Guide Peace Songs can be found at each of these songs. Stephen Schwartz Becky's Website: http:// “Give Peace a Chance” by John "Last Night I Had the Strangest dragon.sleepdeprived.ca/songbook/ Lennon Dream" by Ed McCurdy songbook_index.htm "Come the Day" by Bruce Woodley “Peace Train” by Cat Stevens These include : “Crystal Blue Persuasion” by "Earth" by David Roth Let There be Peace On Earth Tommy James and The Shondells "We've Been Asking Questions" by Sing for Joy "Where Have All The Flowers John Phillips of the Mamas & the Peace I Ask of Thee O River Gone" by Pete Seeger Papas. I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing "Pray Peace" by Alchemy VII
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Page 21 Sept Math Storytelling Day 25 Reading With Math
Math is Fun! Here are The Grapes of Math Sir Cumference and the First some great picture ISBN 0439598400 Roundtable (ISBN 1570911525) and books by author Greg Math Appeal Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi Tang with a Math ISBN 0439210461 (ISBN 1570911649 ), both by Cindy theme that will get your Neuschwander Other great Math stories that also girls thinking outside present riddles and problem solving in All of these books should be readily the box... a fun and creative way are: available in Math for All Seasons the children’s Apple Fractions by Jerry Pallotta ISBN 0439755379 ISBN 0439389011 section of Math-terpieces your local Pizza Counting by Christina Dobson library! ISBN 0439443881 ISBN 0881063398 STEM: Code Breakers
Since we're on the topic See if you can figure this one out: Give this one a try: of Math, give your girls 7 21 9 4 5 19 – 9 19 – 1 23 5 19 15 HFGME EITER KNHNS EDEU a chance to fine tune 13 5 PISM TNAB their code making and breaking skills with (Solution: Guides is awesome) H E K E P T these variations on Block Cipher F I N D I N cryptograms. G T H E S A We write the message in a square M E N U M B
block, one row at a time, and then E R S Numbers Stand for Letters read off the columns. (Solution: HE KEPT FINDING THE This is a very easy code to solve! Example: To encode a message, SAME NUMBERS) Each number stands for a letter. write it in a block like this: T H I S I For more ciphers and number games 1 stands for A check out: 2 stands for B S V E R Y 3 stands for C E A S Y ! http://www.cerias.purdue.edu/ and so on... education/k-12/teaching_resources/ The coded message is passed on by lessons_presentations/ To help solve this code a bit quicker looking at the columns and writing cryptology.html you can write out the whole alphabet, them out like this: TSE HVA IES SRY http://youthonline.ca/spykids/ and then write out the numbers from 1 IY! http://www.discoveryeducation.com/ to 26 below it on an index card for the The decoder then rewrites the code free-puzzlemaker/ girls. Now, whenever you see a words in a block again and reads the http://www.cryptograms.org/ number, you can either count that message across the rows. many letters, or look up the number and write down the letter above it. Arts: Oðblgshezi Oðblgshezi (pronounced oth-bleg- There are 10 letters in Oðblgshezi: How many more words can you SHEH-zi) is the perfect language to I=1; Z=2; E=3; H (h)=4; S=5; G=6; create on your calculator? tell math stories! But what is this L=7; B=8; TH (ð)=9; O=0 See http://www.langmaker.com/ strange language? It is simply Start with typing 0.7734 into a calculatorwords.htm or http:// English words written using calculator calculator, then turn it homepages.strath.ac.uk/~cjbs17/ digits. upside down. calculator/calcwords.html for ideas.
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Page 22 STEM & Arts: Make a Chinese Abacus Adapted from the BC Girl Guides the lower beads on the third pipe STEM Math Challenge cleaner are worth 100, and so on up For centuries before the days of to 100,000 on the left-most cheap digital calculators, people used pipecleaner. abacuses to do calculations. Build The top beads on each skewer are your own, and use it to add up your worth five times the white beads: cookie revenue! again starting on the right, the top Supplies: beads are worth 5, 50, 500, 5000, etc. 100,000 10,000 1,000 100 10 1 6 popsicle sticks To set the abacus to zero: 2 pipe cleaners cut into thirds (6 x 1. Lay the abacus on a flat surface 10 cm long pieces) with the two “heaven” beads at 2. On the "ones" pipe cleaner: move Ruler the top. three bottom beads up to make 3. Pen or pencil 2. Move all the “heaven” beads to 3. On the "tens" pipe cleaner: move Glue the top of the top section. Move one top bead 12 red pony beads (or colour of all the “earth” beads to the bottom down to your choice) of the bottom section. make 50, and move four 30 white pony beads (or colour of To show a number, for example 24, bottom beads your choice) on the abacus: up to make Instructions: 1. Break the number up into single 40 2 9 3 1. Marking with a pencil, divide one digits. For example, 24 becomes (40+50=90). popsicle stick so that the 6 pieces 2 tens (20) and 4 ones (4). 4. On the "hundreds" pipe cleaner: of pipe cleaner will be evenly 2. On the right-hand pipe cleaner move two bottom beads up to spaced (about 2 cm apart). (the "ones" pipe cleaner), move make 200. 2. Glue the ends of the pipe four bottom beads up to represent How to increase the Math Factor: cleaners onto the marked the 4 ones. locations on the popsicle stick, 3. On the To add two numbers together, e.g., then glue another popsicle stick second pipe 24 and 32: on top to make a “sandwich”. cleaner from 1. Show the first number on the Note that we used hot glue to do the right (the abacus. For example, show 24 by this, but you could use white glue. "tens" pipe moving four bottom beads up on 2 4 3. Thread two red beads onto each cleaner), the "ones" pipe cleaner and two pipe cleaner. move two bottom beads bottom beads up on the "tens" 4. Leaving space for your beads to up to represent the 2 tens (20). pipe cleaner. move up and down (see picture), To show 37: 2. Move more beads to represent glue another popsicle stick the second number. Use the top sandwich onto the pipe cleaners. 1. Break 37 up beads, if necessary, to show 5. Thread five white beads onto the into single totals that are greater than five. pipe cleaners. digits: 3 tens For example, to add 32 to the 24 6. Glue a popsicle stick sandwich to (30) and 7 you already have, you need to the bottom of the pipe cleaners. ones (7). show a total of 6 on the "ones" 2. On the "ones" 3 7 How it works: pipe cleaner (4+2=6), so move pipe cleaner: move one top bead down and leave Lay your abacus on a flat surface with one top bead down to make 5, only one bottom bead up. the two beads at the top. These are and move two bottom beads up to 3. Move three more bottom beads called the “heaven” beads. Starting make 2 (5+2=7). up on the "tens" pipe cleaner. You from the right-hand side of your 3. On the "tens" pipe cleaner: move should now have five "tens" and abacus, the lower beads (called the three bottom beads up to make 3 six "ones", which gives you the “earth” beads) on each pipe cleaner tens (30). total of 56. are worth multiples of 10. Specifically, To show 293: the lower beads on the right-most Can you figure out how to subtract pipe cleaner are each worth 1, the 1. Break 293 up into single digits: 2 using your abacus? lower beads on the second pipe hundreds (200), 9 tens (90), and cleaner from the right are worth 10, 3 ones (3).
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Page 23 Sept Asian Harvest Festivals 30 About the Harvest Festivals Harvest system. For 2012 the day falls on Chusok Harvest Festival festivals are September 30th. Some countries This festival is the harvest festival of celebrated all celebrate on the current system's Korea--families celebrate the bounty over the world. 15th of August while others have of the harvest with special dishes and The harvesting dates somewhere in between these remembering their ancestors. of crops meant times. Chinese Moon Festival that there was While each country in Asia has their now ample own particular traditions which we will In China the full moon that appears at food available learn about, they share some harvest time is the traditional symbol and time to commonalities in their traditions and of good luck, prosperity and relax a bit as the hard work of festivities. happiness and the Chinese represent harvesting had been done. Harvest this in their famous mooncakes. time meant different times throughout Tet-Trung-Thu Harvest Festival Lantern or Mooncake Festivals the world dependent upon the climate This is the Harvest festival of Vietnam of the region and the crops being and is also known as the Children's This is the name given to the harvest grown. Festival, believed to be so because festivals in Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan. These festivities share the In Asia the 15th day of the 8th lunar parents then had time to turn historical beginnings of the the month became the symbolic end of attention to their children with the Chinese Moon Festival but have harvest. As Asians used an ancient hard work of the harvest behind them. developed specific traditions calendar this date actually changes associated with each country. from year to year in our current Traditions Arts: Make a Mooncake
1. Fresh and flavorful foods that Looking to try a mooncake? Here are some links to recipes: celebrate the richness of the http://allrecipes.com/recipe/adzuki-mooncake/ harvest—the most celebrated Or for an easy one for the girls to make (not as authentic but being mooncakes. lots of fun): http://www.afk.com/resources/mooncakerecipe.tpl 2. Lanterns that symbolize the brightness of the harvest moon. 3. Dancing—as a celebration and as STEM and the Moon a way to tell a story or legend. All the harvest festivals use as their sky, the stars and how ancient people 4. New clothing or dressing up, focus the full moon. This is a great explained the movements of these including the making of masks. opportunity to explain the phases of celestial bodies because they did not 5. Legends and stories that the moon—from new moon to full know the science of astronomy. remember the past and moon and all the phases in between. ancestors. Brownies-Key to Stem-Reach for the This gives the girls a chance to learn Stars; Guides-Beyond You-Astronomy- 6. Games and songs. about the moon, lunar calendars and part 7; Pathfinders-Exploring a Theme-It's begin to explore the topic of the night About time part 2 Arts: Make a Family Shrine Just as the people of Mexico honour meditation and these shrines are a Have the girls consider what would be their ancestors in Dios de las Muertas way of remembering their ancestors. the important aspects of a family then so do the Korean people during Small trinkets considered precious as shrine for their own families and then Chusok. Household shrines are small well as candles, handmade cards, create posters or displays. areas set aside in the home where flowers and pictures are placed there family members go for prayer and as well as gifts of rice and fruit.
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Page 24 Craft: Paper Lanterns Supplies: crease but stopping short 1/2 inch There are many Brightly coloured paper in any size, or more of the opposite edge. shapes to the as long as the paper is rectangular 3. Unfold the paper and then join the lanterns of the Scissors short edges together with tape or harvest festivals- Tape or stapler staples. stars, fish, 4. You have a lantern that you then butterflies, suns Instructions: can hang or place over an LED and lobsters are tealight on the floor. but a few. 1. Take the paper and fold it hotdog 5. Mini hat lanterns can be made Check out the style (along the length). with coloured duct tape that has 2. From the crease make cuts internet for been stuck to itself and then cut different patterns. evenly spaced all along the into rectangles. Healthy Lifestyles: Try Some Asian Foods Try some new traditional festival foods are Asian grocery or can be found on the foods! What mooncakes (of course) (these can be internet. Foods that are red are better opportunity bought at Asian groceries or there are considered good luck so try some to have girls try many recipes), pomelos (like large others not listed. foods that they grapefruit-oranges), pomegranates, are not familiar water chestnuts, songpyeon which with. Some of the are rice cakes available also at the Craft: Masks Active Games Arts: Legends
Make a Try one of the traditional games or Listen to a legend— costume sports of Harvest festivals in Asia— whether it is the or mask! there is archery, tug-of-war, turtle tag, legend of Chang'e Do a and in Korea there is Korean planking from China or Cuoi dragon to which is dancing and balancing while from Vietnam or do the jumping on low boards that seesaw. Yueh Lao Yeh the Fire old man of the Moon, these legends Find some game instructions online Dragon will give you an insight into the at: http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/ dance of China, a unicorn for the cultures of another land and provide a traditional_chinese_games.htm traditional Vietnamese dance, a lion starting point for even more activities. for the Lion dance of Korea. Have the Some of the stories are humorous, girls make up a processional dance. others are told to explain the workings The more elaborate, the more the of nature but all are interesting. impact on the girls. Legend of Chang’e: http:// Dragon Mask: http:// enghunan.gov.cn/SP/ www.firstpalette.com/Craft_themes/ Arts: Dance L_Mid_Autumn_Festival/L_Legend/ Wearables/chinesedragonmask/ index.html chinesedragonmask.html Investigate and learn the traditional Legend of Cuoi: http://www.vietnam Unicorn mask (adapt this idea using dances of the festivals—there is -culture.com/articles-30-4/The- heavy paper): http:// Ganggangsullae from Korea which is moon-boy.aspx www.marthastewart.com/270793/ a circle dance, Vietnamese legends: http:// leather-unicorn-mask Yangko dance, www.vietnam-culture.com/zones-4- Lion mask: http:// which is rhythymic 1/Myths-and-Legends.aspx www.childbook.com/Chinese-Lion- swaying while About Yueh Lao Yeh: http:// Mask-Project-s/97.htm or http:// stepping, or the Lion www.regit.com/hongkong/festival/ tlc.howstuffworks.com/family/ dance, which uses mooncake.htm chinese-new-year-crafts3.htm many movements from the martial arts.
FunFinder (June 2012) © Girl Guides of Canada - BC Program Committee Page 25 BC Program AREA/DISTRICT PROGRAM ADVISER Committee Position Description We need program advisers in BC. But what exactly does a program adviser do? Read below for the job description. There are overlaps in duties between an area and a district BC Program Adviser program adviser, as written in black below. Red text indicates area program adviser responsibilities; blue text indicates district program adviser responsibilities. Both are very Julie Thomson rewarding positions.
Ranger Adviser Purpose Ciara Martin Stimulate interest and promote programs of all branches within the area/district Facilitate the communication of program events, activities, projects, and initiatives in the area/district Lones Adviser Qualifications Joyce Wenner Be conversant with the programs for all branches of Guiding (outgoing) Be passionate about girls and Guiders having fun, while completing the different levels of program Susan Stephen Understand the principles of change, be receptive, and have an open and positive (incoming) attitude toward suggestions and ideas Term of Office Girl Programs Specialist Appointed for a three-year term, with a further two years optional and final Colleen McKenna Responsibilities (outgoing) Attend area/district council meetings, and report regularly. Be familiar with, and enthusiastic about, all levels of the program. Ensure that district program advisers and area council are kept informed of current Roberta Franchini developments and changes within the program; Distribute information from the area (incoming) program adviser. Distribute information from the Provincial Program Committee and the Communications Liaison. Communications Pass on any concerns, opinions, ideas, or changes that are suggested to you, to the Liaison Provincial Program Committee or the area program adviser. Be aware of Lones and Members with special needs in your area/district. When Vacant necessary, ensure that these Members are receiving help with their program. Be prepared to receive and distribute information on Rangers, special needs, science Arts Resource and technology, the environment and active living. Conduct orientations with all new district program advisers. Barb Wilson Conduct regular meetings of the program advisers within the area. Represent the area/district at workshops/conferences sponsored by the Provincial Program Committee. Environment Resource Draw attention to, and/or report on program-related articles in Guiding publications, Vacant including the Fun Finder. Frequently request iMIS lists of program advisers in your area, ensuring that they are put into your contact list for communication and reporting. Healthy Lifestyles Become a member of the BC program adviser’s Facebook group. Resource Ensure all of the district program advisers are on the Facebook group. Communicate those requests to the Communications Liaison. Vacant Submit an Annual Report to the area council, and the provincial Communications Liaison or the district council and area program adviser. STEM Resource Maintain a resource file or library, which Guiders in your area/district can access for program ideas. Nadia Lee Provide resources and support to the area/district council and Unit Guider regarding delivery of the girls programs, including promoting the use of tools created by the BC Program Committee e.g., Science in a Box, Eco Pak, etc. Ensure that planned activities are aligned with the GGC Strategic Priorities. Adhere to the Pledge of Confidentiality and the Code of Conduct of GGC.
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