Guiders Staff Room Part 2

32! Eek!

Two weeks left. This week bird food kebabs, before finishing the term with a big wide game based loosely on the wildlife explorer to finish that off. Been a long term!

Yep. We're 32 with 3 leaders and shout out for help when we go out. Looking like all the September offersretracted with a parent rota. Just got to find where the 2 rainbows can go or if they have a term out

Crikey, 32 seems a lot for one person to manage on their own Becles!

Bit of a rubbish week tbh. One lovely leader moving 300 miles and the other flaky infuriatingly unreliable one is leaving. So me and 32 Brownies then or I scale waaaay back and retract September offers

That's true, I've had a flick through both new roundabouts & some of them are easy enough to set them off with as they arrive without needing too much supervision.

Roundabout Festivals is quite a good one for the 2nd half of the xmas term - you can sort of cover Halloween as a pagan festival, plus all saints day, Christmas, new year etc. It'll be a long term again, so you've easily got time for 2 roundabouts.

Well you only need to do 4 activities minimum for each roundabout. Some are really short and simple so you could easily do the four over 2/3 weeks. I often did a couple of activities in the same night.

Zen atmosphere...what's that then?
Glad you had a better night Imfine!

I'm wondering if it's madness to fit two roundabouts into the first term after summer (so up to Christmas) - most of our girls atm go to Brownies with nothing to show for at least a year at Rainbows but don't want to overload us.

We can't do Halloween so we're going to do a roundabout plus a couple of weeks Roald Dahl up to October half term. Haven't looked at dates up to Christmas yet to see if it's practical in reality or just in my head!

Hurrah - a MUCH better night! I chatted to the girls about being kind and helpful and what that looks like in a Rainbow meeting. I still got silly behaviour but it was quickly nipped in the bud and all done under the umbrella of being kind and helpful so I didn't feel like a moany nag!

I realised that I was partly responsible for prioritising the evening plan over behaviour so I took it really slowly tonight and we didn't move on until I felt everyone was ready.

Got two 'exciting' weeks coming up so hopefully I can maintain the zen atmosphere (gulp).

Oooh, I haven't been strawberry picking in years! Will have to google and see if there's anywhere local

Make it part of the party!

Back, and finally dry after taking the Brownies strawberry picking. They were really great, did a tour of the farm and the different crops. The girls loved it. But it rained. Oh my it rained! They still loved it [:)]

I'm having a small "aarrghh" moment.

Our oldest Rainbow's dad is a police officer and has offered to visit in full kit, and with a car, on the same Tuesday as we've sort of made plans with the Brownies for an end of term party.

Might not get another chance once she moves up to Brownies in Sept for him to come in. But I feel bad changing plans. But it'd be a good last meeting.

I dunno what to do!

It was on display at Woolfest.

Going to be a busy night next week...parents staying for promises, DC and mentor coming to give me my LQ badge and certificate and meeting a possible volunteer for Guides. As well as making fruit kebabs...I'm now wondering if they are such a good idea!

I have just found this thread and just want to say yesterday I saw the OwlProject. It was amazing. Keep up the good work all of you.

Rue
You might like Relax Kids. I did the first level training. The kids love it or you could just use a cd for 5 -10 minutes calming down. Some have stories. There is a website but I don't know how to post links.

Rue mine would probably enjoy that bit the most too!

New roundabout after the hols - can't decide whether to get cards out over the next 2 weeks or wait

Complete change of plan in the end - we did yoga and it was great! Never had such a quiet session, only a couple mucked around and even they were better than normal.

It was all a bit cobbled together, we didn't have proper mats or anything, and apparently the most exciting bit was them all taking off their shoes and socks

Phew...missing order from Trading turned out to have been wrongly addressed but still on my street. Trouble is my Queen's birthday badges are likely to be going there as well. She's going to think I'm some weirdo down the road

is there anything in the flipping magic challenge badge you could use?

Sounds good: hope it goes well :-)

Hmm, I could get them to make pompoms from carrier bags - I might even have lots a few in the cupboard from pre-5p days :o

Then perhaps I'll hit youtube for some ideas of what to do.

One of my oldest ones is mad keen on gym/cheers/chants etc so maybe I'll get her to boss the others lead a cheer?

We did pom poms from bin bags and they were really good. 2 bin bags made a great full pom pom. cheerleading.lovetoknow.com/How_to_Make_Cheerleading_Pom_Pons

google how to make cheerleader pompoms from old carrier bags then make up a simple cheer. They'll have a blast!