Each year we celebrate Armed Forces Day as our unit has close ties with the military community. We have Brownies with serving parents, uncles, aunties and brothers plus lots of parent, grandparent and great-grandparent veterans. We also have 2 leaders serving in the RAF and 4 leaders with husbands currently serving in the RAF too. …
This week, the Brownies chose to do Father’s Day crafts which was perfect as we had a few bits and pieces left over from previous years to use up so didn’t have to buy any new resources! The girls had the choice of colouring in a 3D Super Dad card with envelope or decorate a …
Last week the Brownies voted to ‘make something with wood’ and try some acorn-themed crafts’ as part of Trefoil Guild 80th anniversary challenge badge. So that’s what we did! First though we had a pow wow to catch up after the half term break and share stories of any adventures we had been on. Lots …
This week we started the Trefoil guild 80th anniversary challenge badge. The theme of which is from small acorns to big trees so we are focusing on lots of outside activities. To start we had a gardening session: tidying and pruning the shop planters that we have looked after for the last few years plus …
This week was a little strange as Daffodil was away on her holidays and it is very unusual for her to miss a meeting! Buttercup was in charge with Blossom, Lilly and Snowdrop in attendance and they had a fabulous chilled out meeting of crafts and games. Buttercup started the meeting by sharing the postcard …
This week we held our termly Team Building night. The Brownies had a choice of 3 different themes and last term they chose to do our dexterity/hands free night (which coincidentally we did last April too!). Firstly though, we welcomed 3 new members to our unit: Charis who has transferred from 4th Waddington Brownies, plus …
This week we finished the term with some fabulous Easter crafts and our awards ceremony. We made Easter bunnies, turning a simple flannel into an amazing Easter bunny! These were super easy to make and only required a flannel, elastic band plus decorations to make it look so cute! We also decorated sparkly Easter egg shape …
This weekend was our much-anticipated (and much delayed!) trip to the Museum of Lincolnshire Life. For those who don’t know anything about this Museum: it is housed in a Victorian barracks built for the Royal North Lincoln Militia in 1857. It’s rich and varied social history collection reflects and celebrates the culture of Lincolnshire and …
This week we finished the fabulous Free Being Me challenge badge. We started with Airbrushing Spot the Difference. The aim of this activity was to show the Brownies that pictures in the media aren’t always true, as they have often been changed using airbrushing. Each Six had a set of photographs and had to compare …
This week we continued building our body confidence and self-esteem through the Free Being Me challenge badge. We reminded the Brownies about our Free Being Me wall, a place to collect positive statements throughout the meeting and our leaders wore our caring friend necklaces which contained 5 beads; one for each of the words “I …
