Games for Thinking Day
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WORLD CENTRE JEOPARDY
This version is suitable for Guides, and Pathfinders.
RULES: The rules are very simple, and similar to the Jeopardy game show on TV I find it works best to divide the girls into two teams. The first two girls come up to the Guider. The Guider reads the first question. The first Girl to put up her hand, answers first. Her response must be in the form of a question. If she does not respond correctly, or does not phrase her response in the form of a question, the other girl (team) is given the opportunity to respond. The team who correctly answers receives one point. However, if neither team correctly answers the question, it is returned to the bottom of the pile. These two girls then go to the back of the line, and the next two come forward. I usually play the game until all the questions have been answered, or until the girls give up on those questions, they don't know the answer to. Also, I only play this game once a year, on Thinking Day.
1.This woman donated "Our Chalet" to the Girl Guides.
Who was Mrs. Helen Storrow from the USA?
2.This World Centre is located in Pune, India.
What is "Sangam"?
3.Pax Lodge is located in this city.
What is London, England?
4.The name of this World Centre is a Sanskrit word which means "going together".
What does "Sangam" mean?
5.Guides can swim, study arts, and crafts, and attend seminars at this World Centre.
What is "Sangam"?
6.These two World Centres have pools.
What are "Our Cabana" and "Sangam"?
7.To reach this World Centre, you must hike 30 minutes uphill from the village of Adelboden.
What is "Our Chalet"?
8.At Our Chalet, the main activities in the summer and winter are these.
What are hiking and skiing?
9.Guides and Girl Scouts staying at Our Chalet must be at least this age.
What is twelve years old?
10.This World Centre opened in 1991 in London, England.
What is "Pax Lodge"?
11.The number of World Centres.
What is Four?
12.The names of the World Centres.
What are "Our Chalet", "Our Cabana", "Pax Lodge" and "Sangam"?
13.Money for the conference room at Pax Lodge was pledged and raised by Guides from this country.
What is Canada?
14.This was the name of the original World Centre.
What was "Our Chalet"?
15.This world centre was renamed "Olave House" in 1963, in honour of Lady Baden-Powell.
What was "Our Ark"?
16.Each visitor to this World Centre spends a day providing a program of games and activities for small children for the "Village Service Project".
What is "Our Cabana"?
17."Our Cabana" is located in this city.
What is Cuernavaca, Mexico?
18."Our Chalet" is located in this city.
What is Adelboden, Switzerland?
19.The name of this World Centre means "small cabin by a stream".
What is "Our Cabana"?
20.You must be a member of this organisation in order to visit a World Centre.
What is the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts?
Kathryn Lake Hogan alias Thumper
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INTERNATIONAL SHOPPING
To play: The players are in patrols, grouped in various parts of the room. The game leader has a list of items that could be bought in a store. One person from each patrol, the "shopper" comes to the leader. All are given the same items (whisper so the rest can't hear). They return to their patrol, which is the “shop”, and act out what they want to buy, because the "shopkeepers" don't understand English. The first patrol to guess correctly wins, and new "shoppers" go to the game leader. Try these items: umbrella, pound of butter, jar of honey, wedding ring, bikini, ballet shoes, pencil sharpeners, bicycle pump, automobile tire, nosedrops.
Doris Cavallin
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ICE FLOE or SNOW SHOES
(Canada)
The idea is to race across the floor without touching said floor. Each person (or team) is given 2 pieces of newspaper (or substitute -like the plastic placemats). You put one down, step on it, put the second one down, move to it, pick up the first one, move it up front, step onto it, move the second one in front of the first, step forward onto it, etc. thus progressing across the floor. If you are playing in teams, all of the team has to get onto one ice flow so that the other ice flow can be moved ahead.... Does this make sense? So you have to be on an ice flow at all times, but you have to progress, so you need to move the ice flows ahead, one step at a time. With newspapers, rambunctious players are apt to tear the papers, so speed isn't the only factor.
Brownies can do this if it is explained/demonstrated. It is fun with Pathfinders.
Helen Archibald
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HISTORY OF THE MOVEMENT RELAY
Give each circle, patrol, (whatever your group divides into) a name or names from the list below:
1.Robert Baden-Powell (8)
2.Agnes Baden-Powell (3)
3.Olave Baden-Powell (4)
4.Boy Scouts (4)
5.Girl Scouts (5)
6.Girl Guides (5)
7.Thinking Day (3) (everybody runs)
The (numbers) indicate how many times that person runs. On the word 'Thinking Day' the whole (patrol) join hands and run together.
Read the story aloud, giving the girls time to run down the room, around a chair and back to their (Patrol), before proceeding. This game can be scored if desired.
In 1907, ROBERT BADEN-POWELL, who had returned from the Boer War with ideas for the training of boys, ran an experimental camp on Brownsea Island. The following year, he published 'Scouting for Boys', and all over the country boys began meeting together and calling themselves BOY SCOUTS. In September, 1909, Scouts attended the Rally at Crystal Palace. At the march pass, ROBERT BADEN-POWELL noticed at the back a group of girls. "Who are you?" he asked. "We are GIRL SCOUTS", they replied. "But there aren't any GIRL SCOUTS", Robert said. "Yes there are, for we are they", the girls replied.
ROBERT BADEN-POWELL realised that something would have to be done for the girls, so he asked his sister, AGNES BADEN-POWELL to organise them as GIRL GUIDES; in 1910 the first companies were registered, the first being Miss AGNES BADEN-POWELL'S own.
In 1912, ROBERT BADEN-POWELL began an eight-month tour, visiting BOY SCOUTS in West Indies, Australia, and New Zealand. On board ship, he met Olave St. Clair Saomes, and by the end of the journey they were engaged. They married on October 30, 1912 and their wedding gift from the BOY SCOUTS was a motor car, for which each Scout gave one penny.
OLAVE BADEN-POWELL quickly became involved in her husband's Scouting Activities.
By this time the country was at war and ROBERT BADEN-POWELL had offered his services, although he was close to sixty years of age. The King told him that his work with the BOY SCOUTS was more important. In 1920 he was proclaimed Chief Scout of the World. OLAVE BADEN-POWELL had been acclaimed Chief Guide in 1918.
In 1926, a French Guider made a suggestion that, since ROBERT BADEN-POWELL and OLAVE BADEN-POWELL shared the same birthday, February 22nd, this day was a special day to all GIRL GUIDES and GIRL SCOUTS around the world. In 1927, THINKING DAY began to be celebrated.
Following an idea of a Belgian Guider in 1931, everyone was encouraged to give one penny on that day towards the THINKING DAY fund.
So - now you know that Guiding began in 1910, founded by ROBERT BADEN-POWELL and AGNES BADEN-POWELL, and that every year GIRL GUIDES and GIRL SCOUTS throughout the world celebrate the joint birthday of ROBERT BADEN-POWELL and his wife OLAVE BADEN POWELL on the 22nd of February, THINKING DAY.
Kathy Brown, Nova Scotia