{"id":5697,"date":"2018-04-03T12:08:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-03T16:08:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makingfriends.com\/girl-scout-leader\/?p=5697"},"modified":"2018-04-03T12:21:28","modified_gmt":"2018-04-03T16:21:28","slug":"celebrating-girl-scouts-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makingfriends.com\/girl-scout-leader\/girl-scout-activities\/celebrations-parties-events\/celebrating-girl-scouts-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating Girl Scouts’ Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We celebrated the Girl Scouts 106th birthday by having a great party!\u00a0 Many troops from our service unit pitched in to make the event a success. We had 93 girls sign up to attend.<\/p>\n

To start off we had a surprise sing along led by an Ambassador Girl Scout who volunteered her time to do something special for the girls.\u00a0 Since many in attendance were first year Daisies, it was great to see an older scout engage the younger ones. And of course they had fun learning traditional Girl Scout camp songs.\u00a0 After our singalong the girls were invited to go at their own pace to several stations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Four troops ran games, from duck duck goose, pick up a matching duck from a baby pool, a bean bag toss, and a pin the cupcake game.\u00a0 There was a selfie photo booth complete with props.\u00a0 We also had a SWAP station using the <\/span>GS Law SWAP kit<\/a><\/strong> from MakingFriends\u00ae.com, which was a hit!\u00a0 Since there were so many troops rotating through the stations we filled a snack size bag with the string pre-threaded to the safety pin, along with all the colored beads, and pre-punched SWAP cards that listed the Girl Scout Law.\u00a0 Baggies were packaged into troop bags and troop leaders had the option to “make or take” the kits to do at a troop meeting or at the event<\/span><\/span>.<\/div>\n
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We also had a station where we borrowed lots of old uniforms from council and had a big display of those.\u00a0 My troop also displayed their vests from Daisy to Seniors, along with their scrapbook from Daisies, a troop memory book made up detailing our Bronze Award, a time capsule the girls made in 4th grade (they are in 10th now) and\u00a0<\/span>lots of SWAPs from Rock the Mall, and other troop adventures<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Community Service: Birthday in a Box<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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Birthday in a Box patch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our big service project during the event was making 20 birthday bags to give to kids in need.\u00a0 Each had a new stuffed bear, cake mix, frosting, candles, plates, napkins, cups, blowers, crayons, a coloring poster, bubbles.\u00a0 Also we had a station where girls colored and wrote out birthday cards which were put inside the bags.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Our snack was taken from the GORP tradition. Peanuts were not used, but we did the Recipe for a Girl Scout Troop mix<\/em> found on the web.\u00a0 A long table was set up and each girl went through and filled her bag with snack items like:<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n