Tonight, we finished our Buddy Burners and cooked breakfast burritos.
You just need a large can. Use a church key or bottle opener to poke three holes along the open end of the can and three more on the opposite side near the closed end of the can. Light your burner, set your can on top, and cook.
Pics to come . . .
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Friday, April 17, 2015
Friday, March 20, 2015
March Girl Scout Meeting
I got the crazy idea to teach our girls how to use Buddy Burners. I had hoped my cafeteria manager would have the cans I needed to do this, but they weren't ready, so today, we only made the burners. Next month, we will actually cook.
Buddy Burners are great for Scouts and families to use when at camp or in the backyard.
Tonight, we layered strips of cardboard with dryer lint. A few layers of each is all you need. You then roll it so it looks like a spiral and drop it into a tuna and cat food can. Melt wax on your stove. Pour it over the cardboard and lint. Let it dry.
Next month, we will use these as the fire/heat source to cook.
Buddy Burners are great for Scouts and families to use when at camp or in the backyard.
Tonight, we layered strips of cardboard with dryer lint. A few layers of each is all you need. You then roll it so it looks like a spiral and drop it into a tuna and cat food can. Melt wax on your stove. Pour it over the cardboard and lint. Let it dry.
Next month, we will use these as the fire/heat source to cook.
Friday, December 13, 2013
December Girl Scout Meeting
Tonight, we had a small group. We sure did miss all our friends who
were sick, in church performances, or having cookies with Santa. We
went Christmas Caroling at two special houses. The girls did a great
job and even inspired a dog to sing too. They also worked on the
Detective Badge, enjoyed hot chocolate and lots of sugar, and created
Christmas crafts.
Merry Christmas from our Girl Scout Troop!
Merry Christmas from our Girl Scout Troop!
Friday, November 1, 2013
Girl Led Girl Scout Meeting
Tonight, our Girl Scout meeting was truly girl led.
One of the Brownies had chosen to lead the other Brownies in the Senses badge. She brought everything she needed, so I had them work in a separate room. She did a great job working through the activities. The girls had a great time!
Our Junior who was going to lead the badge work for her group did not make the meeting, so I had the Cadettes work with the Juniors. The Juniors chose to work on the Drawing badge. All the girls chose the parts they wanted to do and began the badge.
All I did was get out Fall/Thanksgiving foam pieces for them to do a craft while we waited for everyone to arrive. I then went between the two groups monitoring them. That's it. Great meeting!
One of the Brownies had chosen to lead the other Brownies in the Senses badge. She brought everything she needed, so I had them work in a separate room. She did a great job working through the activities. The girls had a great time!
Our Junior who was going to lead the badge work for her group did not make the meeting, so I had the Cadettes work with the Juniors. The Juniors chose to work on the Drawing badge. All the girls chose the parts they wanted to do and began the badge.
All I did was get out Fall/Thanksgiving foam pieces for them to do a craft while we waited for everyone to arrive. I then went between the two groups monitoring them. That's it. Great meeting!
Friday, June 7, 2013
Final Girl Scout Meeting of the Year
Tonight, we will hold our final Girl Scout meeting of the school year. Traditionally, we have a Bridging and Award Ceremony to end the year, but we are doing it differently this year.
We have 8 girls who could earn their Bronze Award. Each girl has between 7.5 and 13.5 hours left to complete the project. We will be talking to the girls about what they can do to finish their project and give them a due date this summer to turn in all evidence. It will be each girl's responsibility to finish. We have gotten them this far, and now it is their chance to take responsibility and finish. We will have a special celebration in late August or early September, when we will hold a Bronze Award, Bridging, Awards, and Investiture Ceremony.
We will also give the girls the opportunity tonight to plan next year. They will work in GS levels to decide on badges they want to earn and what field trips they want to take. It is our hope that they will have a great plan by night's end. This is the next step in building leadership skills and giving our girls ownership of their troop.
We have 8 girls who could earn their Bronze Award. Each girl has between 7.5 and 13.5 hours left to complete the project. We will be talking to the girls about what they can do to finish their project and give them a due date this summer to turn in all evidence. It will be each girl's responsibility to finish. We have gotten them this far, and now it is their chance to take responsibility and finish. We will have a special celebration in late August or early September, when we will hold a Bronze Award, Bridging, Awards, and Investiture Ceremony.
We will also give the girls the opportunity tonight to plan next year. They will work in GS levels to decide on badges they want to earn and what field trips they want to take. It is our hope that they will have a great plan by night's end. This is the next step in building leadership skills and giving our girls ownership of their troop.
Saturday, May 25, 2013
Our Zoo Overnight Girl Scout Experience
I spent around 22 hours 20 minutes at the zoo. Why, you ask? Our older Girl Scouts needed to learn about animal habitats for a badge. We allow our girls to vote on how to spend their troop money, and they chose to spend the night at the zoo. We finally did it last night.
All the girls met at my house, and we packed the truck. We arrived at the zoo at 6:00 and found us a picnic table to enjoy our sack dinners. Around 6:30, we loaded all of our things into a van for the zoo folks to transport to our sleeping area. In preparing for this event, we were told we could bring air mattresses, but they had to be twin size. We really knew nothing else for certain about our sleeping arrangements. We thought, by the brochure descriptor and inferring everything else, that we would be sleeping in the educational building by the elephants, giraffes, and ostriches. Oh, were we wrong!
Once everyone arrived, they took us inside the zoo for a restroom break and introductions. We split into our groups (there was another multilevel troop there), and off we went.
We saw flamingos, BugUniversity, birds of prey, giant tortoises, the reptile building, and the koalas. With everything we saw, we learned numerous facts. Because the reptiles are on a strict schedule of light and dark, we could not use our flashlights. There were pretty much no lights on inside the building. If you had a flashlight that showed red light, then you could use that. The guides were supposed to have red tissue paper for us to put over our flashlights, but they didn't. While we couldn't see everything, it was still neat to be in there in the dark.
Once back outside, they had the girls close their ears and then put a tuning fork under their chins. This represented what a snake "heard."
The Koalas are from the San Diego Zoo, and our guide is friends with the Koala keepers there, so he could give us all kinds of facts. They had red lights on inside their habitat, so we could see them without or flashlights too. (These pics were taken Saturday afternoon in the daylight.)
While looking at the Koalas, our guide got a call that a
storm was moving in, and we had to move to shelter. We went from the Koalas to the Children's Zoo
and stayed inside the Nature Exchange building for at least an hour,
maybe longer. At one point, it was raining so hard and so fast, I
thought it was hailing b/c it was so loud. The girls were entertained with
books, thousands of artifacts, zoo maps, and themselves. They gave the girls a snack
while we waited too.
The rain let up enough that we were taken to the auditorium to see Ferrets, a snake, an Opposum, and a Bearded Dragon.
They got a tiny grill and got some flames going to roast marmallows, and we ate S'mores in the auditorium.
The rain had
let up and went back and forth between drizzling and not raining at all.
We had to unload our gear from the van, and we learned we would be sleeping in platform tents. Yes, tents! I talked to the girls a
little about being in a tent. We thought we would have to split our
group in half, but instead, they moved a bed into one tent so all the
girls could be together. Wonderful! They put the adults right next to
them.
Some may be thinking . . . How are your girls this age and have not slept in a tent? Well, b/c the leaders do not prefer tent camping, and we do not go camping in locations needing tents, so . . . the girls have not had that experience yet. They will . . . someday.
There were bunk cots, so the girls picked their spots and started getting ready for bed. Of course, it was already near 11:00 pm by now. We got them all settled and got ourselves settled and then we heard great commotion. One girl's top bed collapsed on another girl's bottom bed. Thank goodness the bottom girl was curled up in a tiny ball at the corner where the bed didn't completely fall. We got everyone resettled, made sure smaller bodies were on top, and went back to bed.
We had to be up at 7:00 am. One of our adults, the first one up, said the girls were up at 6:30 am. By the time I walked in to check on them at 7:03, most were packed and just about ready to go. Greatness! We reloaded the van and walked to the Savanna area and had fruit, muffins, and juice. They hadn't let the animals out yet, so all we saw were pooper scoopers working.
At 8:30 am, we went back to about where we slept to see a lady talk about an alligator, which she carried like it was not a dangerous animal, a hawk, a tortoise, a chinchilla, and a penguin, which she let walk around, and walked straight up to me.
We had 10-15 minutes to look wherever we wanted.
At 9:30 am, we rode the monorail.
(I didn't post all of the pictures of the animals we saw while on the monorail.)
At 10:00 am, were were done.
We retrieved our gear from the van and put it in our own cars. We then started our workshop. We went to the Children's Zoo to begin and look at domestic animals--goats, pigs, rabbits, ponies.
We then looked at Tamarins, monkeys, tigers, otters, and Koalas.
We then went to see mandrills, elephants, giraffes, ostriches, and a few other things in that area. We finished around 12:15.
It was a great experience! Once all the parents picked up their children, my niece and I stayed at the zoo to explore again with my nephew and mom.
All the girls met at my house, and we packed the truck. We arrived at the zoo at 6:00 and found us a picnic table to enjoy our sack dinners. Around 6:30, we loaded all of our things into a van for the zoo folks to transport to our sleeping area. In preparing for this event, we were told we could bring air mattresses, but they had to be twin size. We really knew nothing else for certain about our sleeping arrangements. We thought, by the brochure descriptor and inferring everything else, that we would be sleeping in the educational building by the elephants, giraffes, and ostriches. Oh, were we wrong!
Once everyone arrived, they took us inside the zoo for a restroom break and introductions. We split into our groups (there was another multilevel troop there), and off we went.
We saw flamingos, BugUniversity, birds of prey, giant tortoises, the reptile building, and the koalas. With everything we saw, we learned numerous facts. Because the reptiles are on a strict schedule of light and dark, we could not use our flashlights. There were pretty much no lights on inside the building. If you had a flashlight that showed red light, then you could use that. The guides were supposed to have red tissue paper for us to put over our flashlights, but they didn't. While we couldn't see everything, it was still neat to be in there in the dark.
Flamingos
BugUniversity
Being Birds of Prey
How far can you turn your head?
Tortoises
Once back outside, they had the girls close their ears and then put a tuning fork under their chins. This represented what a snake "heard."
Being Snakes
The Koalas are from the San Diego Zoo, and our guide is friends with the Koala keepers there, so he could give us all kinds of facts. They had red lights on inside their habitat, so we could see them without or flashlights too. (These pics were taken Saturday afternoon in the daylight.)
The rain let up enough that we were taken to the auditorium to see Ferrets, a snake, an Opposum, and a Bearded Dragon.
They got a tiny grill and got some flames going to roast marmallows, and we ate S'mores in the auditorium.
These tent pictures were taken Saturday morning in the daylight.
This particular tent was where the girls slept.
I had never seen bunk cots before.
Some may be thinking . . . How are your girls this age and have not slept in a tent? Well, b/c the leaders do not prefer tent camping, and we do not go camping in locations needing tents, so . . . the girls have not had that experience yet. They will . . . someday.
There were bunk cots, so the girls picked their spots and started getting ready for bed. Of course, it was already near 11:00 pm by now. We got them all settled and got ourselves settled and then we heard great commotion. One girl's top bed collapsed on another girl's bottom bed. Thank goodness the bottom girl was curled up in a tiny ball at the corner where the bed didn't completely fall. We got everyone resettled, made sure smaller bodies were on top, and went back to bed.
We had to be up at 7:00 am. One of our adults, the first one up, said the girls were up at 6:30 am. By the time I walked in to check on them at 7:03, most were packed and just about ready to go. Greatness! We reloaded the van and walked to the Savanna area and had fruit, muffins, and juice. They hadn't let the animals out yet, so all we saw were pooper scoopers working.
At 8:30 am, we went back to about where we slept to see a lady talk about an alligator, which she carried like it was not a dangerous animal, a hawk, a tortoise, a chinchilla, and a penguin, which she let walk around, and walked straight up to me.
We had 10-15 minutes to look wherever we wanted.
At 9:30 am, we rode the monorail.
(I didn't post all of the pictures of the animals we saw while on the monorail.)
At 10:00 am, were were done.
We retrieved our gear from the van and put it in our own cars. We then started our workshop. We went to the Children's Zoo to begin and look at domestic animals--goats, pigs, rabbits, ponies.
Goats will eat maps.
Naked Mole Rats
Mongoose
From inside the mongoose habitat
We then looked at Tamarins, monkeys, tigers, otters, and Koalas.
We then went to see mandrills, elephants, giraffes, ostriches, and a few other things in that area. We finished around 12:15.
It was a great experience! Once all the parents picked up their children, my niece and I stayed at the zoo to explore again with my nephew and mom.
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