Girl Scout Daisies, Second Meeting - Courageous and Strong Petal (Tula Petal)

For the Tula Petal I tried to think of lots of ways the girls could practice being courageous and strong.  For snack we tried new foods!  I got dried pomegranate, dried persimmon, seaweed chips, starfruit, taro chips, and we also had regular crackers and raisins.  The girls loved trying all of the foods!  It was fun to hear which girls liked which things - not always what I expected.  We do have to be careful, as we have one girl with a dairy allergy and one who is vegetarian.

Then we took advantage of our gym meeting area to do a giant "stop, drop, and roll" practice.  The girls tried to see if they could make it across the gym floor by stopping, dropping and rolling.  We then moved on to some other physical games to try to make ourselves stronger; we played red light green light, did "crab" races (on hand and feet in a bridge pose), and popcorn.

After we were worn out (or at least the leaders were!) playing games we made "superhero" Daisy bracelets.  Each color of the petals and the promise center were represented.  We talked about needing reminders sometimes to help us be courageous and strong.  I didn't take a picture of our bracelets, but we did something similar to this:

http://www.realcoake.com/2013/01/daisy-petals-lawpromise-yellow-petal.html

At our closing circle, we talked about what we each could do to be courageous and strong.  At carpool time, each girl got to color a "Tula" flower coloring sheet.  I can't for the life of me find the link where I found these originally three years ago (it was on the main GS website), but I have included an image of the coloring sheet below.

3:05 Get out sit upons, snack, water, and bathroom break

3:15 Form a circle - tell the girls this is our "opening circle," and we will do it at each meeting

3:20 Pledge of Allegiance

3:25 Girl Scout Promise and Girl Scout Law - read and girls repeat

3:30 Talk about the badges (petals) we are earning this year - today we are earning the Courageous & Strong Petal

3:35 Try a new food!  A way to be courageous 

3:45 Practice "stop drop and roll" - being courageous in an emergency

3:50 Physical games to get strong: freeze tag; red light green light; crab races; popcorn

4:00 Craft: make superhero Daisy bracelets - the Girl Scout petals and law are represented - they help us be courageous and strong

4:15 Closing circle: talk about something we could do to be courageous or strong; sing "Make new friend" and do friendship squeeze

4:25 Pass out badges and coloring sheets

4:30 Carpool!