Daisy Scouts: Earning our Friendly and Helpful

Being friendly and helpful is a Girl Scout must. In our troop everyone helps clean up and we remind the girls that being friendly to each girl is important. Being "friendly" if different than "having to be everyone's friend" however.

For us part of being friendly and helpful goes beyond the basics and we use it to show how every girl can make a difference in our world.

In our troop we worked on this petal at the same time we worked on "honest and fair". We worked on this as we prepared and executed every meeting.

The girls not only began using their Kapers Chart but they also were told that they were expected at every meeting to be friendly and helpful because we hold meetings at my house, this was an easy concept to understand. I told them that they were to make sure that everything was clean and put away at the end of each meeting and that they always has to use please and thank you words.

This resulted in some interesting things!

• Some of the girls took this to heart and asked if they could remove their shoes after entering the house. They said it was helpful because they would not track dirt into the house and help keep things clean.
• We made our Kaper Chart and chose chores like cleaning off the tables, putting away supplies, handing out snack, watering the Daisy garden we planted and being the assistant leader.

When we went to our first "away meeting" at the local Botanic Garden, we were presented with an interesting event!  After our craft, we went outside to continue our meeting. For some reason parents of the other children attending the event did not realize that the group of girls, all dressed in Blue Daisy Tunics were a Girl Scout troop and they wanted to participate in our meeting.

The girls did not seem to be worried and in fact began sharing and inviting the others to play. Although it was more of a challenge for me, the girls did such a great job. They even helped the kids with blowing bubbles and using the rainbow ribbons.

This petal is again, one of the easier to earn and builds on concepts they already know and hear about everyday.

Again the stories that are provided by the Girl Scouts did not really work for us and all I did was use the questions at the end to facilitate conversation. If you are looking for another way for the girls to relate Applejack from My Little Pony is a great example.

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