For Daisy Leaders
 

Evaluation: Level or Community Meeting

Evaluation: Council-Sponsored Troop Program Event
by an Adult  |  by a Girl
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Program Activity: A Daisy Was Here

Idea Exchange

Troop 91, Freetown
To help learn each other’s names, the girls play Duck, Duck, Goose and they say their name. At the first meetings we had them tell something fun they did during the summer when they sat down.

Tips with a Track Record
Meeting tips that really work.

Petal Earning Ideas from Leaders

Daisy Troop Trips

Local adventures are great for Daisy Girl Scouts. They don’t need to go a great distance or to something fabulous to enjoy themselves and to learn something. Consider a park, fire station, post office and library.

Librarians offer story hours. Some police take the girls for a ride in a cruiser through the parking lot with lights flashing. Firefighters let Girl Scouts tour ambulances. The Post Office shows girls how a letter gets from the mailbox to their house. Grocery stores show them how milk and eggs are loaded from behind the display units. Restaurants show behind the scenes and often provide a sampling of dessert. Gyms, veterinarians and dentists are good.

Ask families to drop off and pick up the girls at the location of your trip instead of at the meeting place. That way, you don’t have to arrange for drivers and carseats.

Before You Go
Leaders and girls should talk about what to expect and how they should behave on a trip at the meeting before they actually go. The girls could make something to bring to their host.

1 Read Safety-Wise about trips
2 Confirm plans with the host
3 Notify parents well in advance
4 Get enough adult supervision
5 Arrange snacks, if needed
6 Assemble a First Aid kit

Program FAQs
FAQs for New Leaders

Who pays for what?

Troop activities are supported wholly by the troop treasury, which comes from weekly dues and earnings from the fall magazine, candy and nut sale and the Girl Scout Cookie Sale.  Volunteers don't foot the bill or ask for funds from families (aside from dues).

Family adults pay for:

• Troop dues
• Uniform tunic
• Uniform tab for pins
• American flag patch

The troop treasury pays for:

• Daisy Girl Scout pin
• World Trefoil pin
• Rededication patch
• Petal patches
• Any participation patches
• Supplies and materials
• Trip and admission expenses

The correct placement of pins and petal patches is shown above.  Nothing else is permitted on the front of the Daisy tunic -- other official and fun patches go on the back.

Second-Year Daisies

How do we reward second-year Daisies who earned all of the petal patches last year?  Leaders made great suggestions for this at the last round of Service Unit meetings.  Here they are: 

Award a second full set of petals to second year members to be attached to the tunic front, around and between the first set, so it resembles a dahlia.

Award a second set, to be displayed in smaller flower sets of 5 each on the two front tunic pockets.

Give second year Daisies opportunities to serve as teachers for younger girls as various petal-related activities are presented.  Award Teacher Certificates of the petal color.

Using fabric paints, have second year girls make petal color thumbprints on the back of the tunic in flower pattern.

Award petal color beads to be made into a bracelet later.

Create a simple 10 page scrapbook for each second year girl (one page for each part of the law) and acknowledge accomplishments with stickers as  petals are presented to first year girls.

Leaders may want to begin the process of awarding half the petals one year and the other half the second year.

If you would like to come up with your own idea, please follow these Girl Scouts of the USA guildelines:

Only official GSUSA insignia, patches and badges may appear on tunic front, and they may not appear on the back.

Because a tunic is not required for membership, girls can wear their pins on their regular clothes if they wish.

The Girl Scout program is more about the values and qualities expressed in the Girl Scout Law than about the petal patches.  Focus on the content, rather than the reward.

Girl Scout Pins

When girls join as Daisies, they receive a Daisy pin and a World Trefoil pin. The next year, they receive a rededication patch for the back of their tunics.

If a girl didn't receive the two pins during her first year as a Daisy,  please give them to her in her second, along with a Rededication patch.  This gives the girl appropriate inclusion and the recognition she deserves for rededicating herself to Girl Scouts at the same time.

More on Uniforms and Pins

The rededication patch goes on the back of the tunic. The membership star, with blue disc back, goes on the front of the tunic, on the right shoulder, below the flag.  Membership stars can be presented any time.  They are eligible for it soon as they join.  Daisy tunics can be purchased at the Service Center. Unlike petal patches and official Daisy pins, which can be purchased by leaders only, tunics may be purchased by family adults.

Whose award is it?

Our volunteers are very enthusiastic about the awards and patches the girls earn, because they guide them through the process. Along the way, they do so much of the program, and become so intimately involved with it, that they sometimes want to get a patch for themselves. However, in Girl Scouts there’s a distinction between awards and patches the girls earn and fun patches for adults. Please leave the girl awards for the girls, and take pride in wearing the insignia of adult Girl Scouts.  It's important that a person wear only awards that she has earned, and adults don't earn girl awards. 

Troop First Aid Kit

Have one with you on all trips and at meetings. Include:
First Aid book
Coins for phone calls
GSEM emergency info (orange)
GS activity insurance forms
Parent consent forms and health histories
Adhesive tape and bandaids
Alcohol wipes
Distilled water to clean wounds
Flashlight
Instant chemical icepack
Non-latex gloves
Emergency phone numbers
Oral thermometer
Paper drinking cups
Plastic bags
Safety pins
Scissors
Soap
Splints
Triangular bandages
Tweezers