Brownie weekend

Grace had a big Brownie weekend, with an activity each day. On Saturday there was a city-wide Girl Scout Day of Service. It was set up quite nicely - all girl scouts were invited to participate. Troops were assigned one of three 1 1/2 hour shifts to participate. There were probably 10 tables that each troop spent probably 8 minutes or so on each one doing a different craft to benefit some group in the community. The girls made dog toys for one of the animal shelters, jar grippers (that you use to open stuck jars) for a retirement home, bookmarks for the library, care packages for soldiers overseas, and other projects. A very fun way to teach the girls to do something for others.

Sunday had a cooking class at a local cooking school for the Tamaques Brownie troops (I think there are two of them). The beauty of that event (for me at least) is that I discovered they sharpen knives for $2 a blade. So I can finally get my kitchen knives back in shape!

Here's a couple pics from Saturday:


Making play doh, maybe for a day care?


Making cards to go in the toiletry bags for the troops. Each girl was to bring three travel size toiletries with them which went into a big bin for use at this table.


Grace and Anna (one of her two best friends here in NJ) showing off their packages for the troops ("Mom, be sure and show this picture to Granddad!")


I'm so glad she is having such an incredibly positive girl scout experience. Now hopefully Jim will still have a good experience once Cookie Mom here gets all those cases of cookies in our house this Wednesday!