Petals, Petals, Petals.

Just for the update:

Everyone has completed the Red petal.

Everyone who completed the Good Deed Daisy has completed the Yellow petal.

Girls who attended the Eagle field trip in February will complete the Green petal when they finish their Grocery Bag Jump rope; those who were unable to go along on the field trip, or don't want to make a jump rope, there are a couple of other easy options:

• Do a little backyard birding. Check out this picture of common Missouri winter birds. What species are still around? How many of each kind hang out in your backyard? Are there other birds? How are they like or different from the birds in the picture? There are lots of great birding resources on the Missouri DNR website.
• If you'd prefer to do something more active or have a family outing, the Department of Conservation has frequent free programs that might be fun. Wetland for Kids will be held at August A. Busch Conservation Area in St. Charles county this Saturday; a Wildflower program at Powder Valley in Kirkwood next weekend; other events are posted here.
• Or, just have your girl help sort the recycling & take it to the recycling center or the curb. Teach her to look for the triangle on the bottom and how to tell the difference between materials.
  

We will be completing more petals--spring green, violet, orange, and rose are in progress--in future meetings, as well as beginning to prepare to Bridge to Brownies!

Secret Pal

Since there's so much time between yesterday's meeting and our next gathering on April 20, I thought it would be fun for the girls to do a little activity in between now and then--making a card to mail to a secret pal in the troop.

Yesterday each girl addressed an envelope to herself. We distributed these randomly at the end of the meeting. Between now and the next meeting, each girl should make a card and mail it to her secret pal.

We gave the girls the following guidelines:

• the card must fit inside the sealed envelope.
• it can be no heavier than 4 normal pieces of paper.
• they may not buy anything to use in making the card, but use things they already have at home.

This activity counts towards our Spring Green petal, the one focused on being considerate and caring.

a GREEN Thing for Spring!

First of all, everyone remember we have a meeting on Monday, one of the few we are squeezing in among the Spring Breaks and other holidays and days out of school this semester ... we'll send out an email detailing the other activities we're working on for the rest of year in the next day or two!

In the meantime, here's a fun craft to help our girls focus on the Green petal, the one that symbolizes the part of the Girl Scout law about using resources wisely ... while having fun at the same time, of course!

Dig a stack of those flimsy Schnucks & Target bags out of the pantry, and click here to the instructions on how to make Braided Bag Ropes out of them!

Bonus: Jack Johnson and some Hawaiian elementary schoolers remind us about the 3Rs:

Jack's Music Lesson #4
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y'all have fun ... see ya soon!