The Girl Scouts spent the day collecting food for the local food pantry. Mrs. Miller, the troop leader, passes out fliers in her neighborhood a few days before the meeting and neighbors have been wonderful over the years. This year 75 fliers went out and the girls, a Junior troop and a Daisy troop, were divided up and headed in four different directions.
The older girls have done this for several years, so the Daisies were divided up amongst the four patrols so the older girls could show them the ropes. It was a wonderful warm and sunny day to be out walking.
Many homes had left bags of food on their front porches for collection. The girls would go up and collect the bags and then leave a thank you card.
Even if there wasn’t a bag waiting on the porch, the girls took turns going up to the doors and asking if they would like to make a food donation for the pantry.
Several made donations!!
All four patrols returned back at the house at the same time. So, we carried all the food in, got some refreshing water, and then started sorting.
The girls had to check the expiration dates on all the cans and boxes to make sure the donated food had not expired. Mrs. Miller will finalize everything and take the items to the local pantry.
The girls showing off the many items they collected.
Time to celebrate!! Juliette Low, the founder of Girl Scouts, was born on October 31, 1860. So the troops celebrated her birthday at the October meeting. What better way to celebrate but with cake & cupcakes!!! They even sang happy birthday to Juliette. You may notice the troop number on the sash is 1912. Well, that’s not the number for the Juniors nor the Daisies that were there, but that number represents the year Juliette Low had the first Girl Scout meeting.
Game time . . . Mrs. Miller had the girls gather in a circle for a quick game. She read a story that gave some history about Juliette Low. As the story was read, if she said ‘Juliette Low’ the girls were to hold hands, if she said ‘scout’ they had to salute, if she said ‘world’ they spun around in a circle, and if she said ‘fund’ they were to yell ‘cha-ching.’
“Juliette Low”
“scout”
“CHA-CHING!!!!”
To close the meeting, the girls did the ‘friendship squeeze’ to close the meeting, and then they were off for free play!!
2 comments:
Great pictures! Megan had such a good time but she said her favorite part was the cake ;)
(bet you didn't know that!)
Thanks for posting these photos! I certainly recognized more than one little cutie up there (especially the one belonging to me!) and it was neat to see all the stuff I missed! You captured some seriously darling moments!
Your cake was VERY cool--as always!!!
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