Daisy Day, Teddy Bear Tea, Daisy Camp Ideas
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Debbie, as there may be others interested I decided to send this to the
list... :-)
We have done large Daisy events for years, and my girls have been in
charge of them many times. We try to host two Daisy events for all our
Daisy troops each year.
Our Teddy Bear Tea Party is always a hit... it's usually held in late fall
or the winter. Basically, we have nice decor (blue and white and yellow
color scheme with daisies and teddy bears to decorate and usually helium
balloons that each girl gets one of to take home) and refreshments (punch
and cookies or cupcakes and cheese puffs or goldfish crackers and
miniature marshmallows - again following the color scheme). The activities
vary every year - crafts, color sheets, easy word searches or puzzles,
games, songs - everything with a teddy theme. This year they made pastel
pony bead bracelets (with a few teddy beads added in) strung on elastic
cord, little paper mache trinket boxes with teddy bear stickers on them,
cardstock bookmarks with teddy stickers and ribbon, a friendship booklet
(again with teddy bear stickers - I got a box load of them free :-), and
little straw hats decorated with ribbons and beads and tiny silk flowers
(okay, these weren't bears - but they were left over from last year when
we did glue them to heads of miniature teddy bears). Everyone brings their
favorite teddy bear with them. We have had a teddy bear parade around the
room to the Teddy Bears' Picnic song - we have had everyone stand up and
introduce your bear - we have had "new ribbons" to tie around your bear's
neck and dress them up. We have made teddy bear placemats to eat off -
we've done dress up a paper teddy... played teddy bear videos while they
were eating - had puppet shows... too many things to remember! This is run
like a wide game, with groups of girls going from station to station. We
hold it in a nice meeting room or church fellowship hall, and everyone
wears "party" clothes or dress up outfits or their uniforms.
The other event is Daisy Fun Day - usually held outdoors in the late
spring at our council camp that is ten miles down the road from us -
sometimes at a local park if we can't get camp. Again, activities vary -
but it's usually games (like Daisy to Daisy or Rabbit Without a House),
crafts (paper bag puppets of Juliette Low from a pattern I've had for
years), snacks (cookies or pb crackers or trail mix and drink - easy
stuff). We always sing songs, and if we're at camp we take a hike. There's
always a story about Daisy and how special they are to be named in her
honor, etc. There's usually a pep talk about how fun it will be to be
Brownies next, and a plug to come back to our camp in a month or so for
Day Camp. (I'm the Director... :-)
Anyway, these events are free to our Daisy troops - paid for by our
Service Unit. They are run by Cadette and/or Senior troops - the Daisies
LOVE to get to be with the big girls! My seventh graders ran the Teddy
Bear Tea for the first time this year and they loved it... except for the
ones working the hat station who used the glue guns (yes, it was cool
melt, but they still stressed :-). They adore being "in charge" and are
quite good at it - can't wait til they are P.A.s at Day Camp this summer!
I would suggest limiting your time from 1 ½ to 2 hours - that is plenty
long enough for Daisies' attention spans. I never have Daisy events over
two hours long - they get wiggly and tired and cross even if they are
having fun. Better to end while everyone is still "up" and enjoying it...
leave with good memories and wanting more. :-)
Get your girls to list their favorite games or songs from when they were
little - or go through the Daisy book for ideas... You could let your
girls pick a theme (like outer space or western or something) and come
with ideas for activities based on that theme. I know a group that did a
doll checkup clinic - everyone brought a doll (or you could do stuffed
animals) and the whole event centered on good health. A nurse (a GS leader
who was an RN) did "checkups" taking pulse and temps, etc. A dietician
talked about healthy eating (and the snacks were very healthy at this
event :-). A dentist showed how to brush teeth correctly, and all the
dolls got stickers for being "brave" at the "dentist's office".
Whatever you come up with, I hope y'all have a great event!
hugs, Cindy
>From: Sheila Malone <>
>I have a Daisy troop that will be going to their first camping trip
>with our service unit. It is only for the day. Can anyone give me
>any outdoor and indoor (in case of rain) game ideas for this age
>group (5-6)?
I replied to Shiela privately, but I also wanted to share our weekend
experience with Daisy Day at camp.
We had a winter camp in snowy Michigan, but the weather was just
perfect. Not too cold and not windy at all, with beautiful
snowflakes floating gently down all day on Saturday. It was the kind
of perfect winter day that makes even me want to be outside.
The daisies arrived about 9:30. The first activity was a potty stop.
Then, after a brief Flag ceremony opening and some rules, the two
Junior girls who had planned Daisy Day as part of their Bronze award
led them on a wide-game hike in the woods. They were given a sheet
about trail signs to follow. At first they followed the trail signs
and a green yarn strung along the trail, until they became confident
of the signs and and the yarn stopped. The stations were: listen to
sounds in the woods, do crayon rubbings of trees and bark, sing a
song (The Other day I saw a Bear), look at thermometers in the snow
and in the sun, draw a picture of what you see. They were outside for
almost an hour, which was acceptable because it wasn't too cold. We
had snack (animal crackers) when we got back in. Then they did the
daisy bead bracelet from makingfriends.com, and learned Make New
Friends song. We had them tie the bracelet they made on a friend -
in other words, they didn't keep their own. This bracelet is really
cute, even the adults wanted one. They needed only a little adult
help to put it together, mostly with the knots. They played a few
rounds of Daisy-Daisy-Brownie (duck-duck-goose) and we walked to
lunch.
After lunch, the next outdoor activity was snow painting with squirt
bottles filled with colored water made from koolaid (without the
sugar). They also made snowangels and snowmen. At the latrine
break, they threw snowballs at the side of the building to leave a
pattern. They also walked in a long line shuffling their feet,
winding around drawing a big daisy in the snow. When we went back
in, they cut and pasted pictures from a magazine to make a collage of
the four seasons (this went faster than expected) and made up a story
from a passed-around bag of objects, which was kind of uneven
depending on if they wanted to talk or not. They learned and sang a
couple of songs (the shark song, and Kookaburra, Five little monkeys
jumping on the bed, and one about aligators and monkeys they sang to
the Juniors that they had learned in school, and a couple more with
actions that I can't remember right now). Then they played more
Daisy-daisy-brownie until it was time for a group activity to start.
There were other age-level troops at the weekend, but they had
a separate program up until 3:30. .All the troops at the campout now
came together. We all made swapping pins - a medium-small pin with
two pony beads, we each made six. Then we all went around the room
and swapped. When you had six new ones, you strung them all on one
big pin. The Daisies presented their Kookaburra song for the
thinking day part of the program, and participated in the Golden Link
ceremony. They then made Gorp, and put it in bags for the trip home,
and hiked out to the parking lot. They went home around 4:30. It
was a full day, both for them and for the two Juniors running the
Daisy part of the event. Last week I wasn't sure how good of an idea
it was, but it turned out to be a great time.
Rose Callahan
Junior Troop 860
Detroit, Michigan
Rose E. Callahan
This is what i sent to Lisa: I have been saving people's info for a while...
YIS- Pam
Subj: RE: DAISY/TEDDY BEAR PJ PARTY
From: (Marianne)
Ideas:
You could have a tea party
Have a Teddy Bear Parade
Decorate sugar cookies shaped like Teddy Bears - they can put the icing
on.....m&M's....sprinkle's whatever
They could write a little Teddy Bear song together
Daisy to Daisy
From: (mycowsnz)
In New Zealand we call this game Bumper to Bumper, played the same way but
when it is time for the girls to swap partners we yell out Bumper to Bumper
instead.
YIGGGS Michelle Cochrane
> Daisy to Daisy
> ---you call out Daisy to Daisy
> and all girls must get a partner
> nose to nose (they touch noses)
> knees to knees, ear to ear,
> butt to butt (they get giggles at that 1)
> then when you say Daisy to Daisy again
> they must get a new partner - we're playing still
> but called Brownie to brownie now also :)
Subj: Re: [AGS] Tea Party
From: (Karen D. Smith)
I just went to a daisy tea party today. It was so much fun. It only lasted
about 2 hours. they started out by making a hat. they used poster board and
cut it into a circle then cut a circle in the center to fix over the girls
heads, then they took strips of construction paper and cris crossed them to
form a dome. (this was done before the girls got there) the girls then
decorated them with felt shapes, flowers, ribbon, glitter, what ever. some
of them attached straps to hold the hat on.(kinda like a sun bonnet) they
also made a little basket to go with the hats. The girls spent some time
singing songs and playing games. They had door prizes and got a little gift
box when they left (box had a necklace,erasers, candy, and a patch)
the lady who tea found someone who would do little cups and plates for her.
it had a cute flower design on the top and the name and date of the event on
the bottom. the girls and mothers got to take them home with them. everyone
had a great time (girls and mother also brought their favorite stuffed
animal.
(HAYNES, BARBARA)
The Teddy Bear Picnic that the Cadette's did for the Daisys this week was
really cute. They did a great job. They had teddy bear necklaces for the
girls to make, a treat bag and teddy bear headpiece to color, a frame to
decorate for a photo of each of them with their teddy bear, and some
games--pin the nose on the teddy bear, a bean bag toss, and teddy bear
bowling. After the girls did their activities, they met on blankets in the
center of the room for snack--a berry basket lined with a red paper bandana
napkin, two teddy bear cookies and a juice pack for story time. Really
cute! I forgot just how little Kindergartners are, since mine is a big
third grader!
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Two of my Junior scouts held a "Teddy Bear Picnic" earlier this month
for 30 Daisies for their Bronze Award. Here are some of the things
they did:
1.) Led the Daisies in four games to earn the "Playing Around the
World" Try-It. The games were Mrs. Bear, the Yogi song/game, Dragon
Tag, and Rabbit without a House.
2.) Led the Daisies in making 3 kinds of hand puppets; one was a
paper bag teddy bear, another was a stiff cardboard teddy bear on a
popsicle stick, and the third was a finger puppet.
3.) Held a Teddy Bear contest, in which each Daisy's bear was
awarded a blue ribbon for such things as "pinkest fur" or "biggest
paws." Each Daisy also introduced her bear and told what made him/her
special.
4.) Served a snack of Teddy Grahams, ants on a log, cheese and
brownies.
5.) Made a name tag for each Daisy out of flat, wooden bears
available at the crafts store (5 for $1).
6.) Awarded each Daisy a "Teddy Bear Affair" patch, purchased from
Patchco.com (85 cents each).
OR
How about a Teddy Bear picnic, where they bring their bears? Or a
Teddy Bear tea where they can learn good manners.
A Teddy Bear drive where they collect stuffed animals to give to a
local children's organization/police station/domestic violence
group/homeless support group.
What about pre-sewing pieces of a teddy bear together and having the
girls stuff the pieces and then sew them together. You could go to a
Teddy Bear factory where the girls could make their own bear. Or set
up a "hospital" for girls to bring in their damaged bears and
coordinate that with a trip to the hospital.
--- boyack <> wrote:
>
> I would like to take a few moments (or lines) to
> share with you our latest event. On Saturday we had
> a Mother/ Daughter Teddy Bear Tea and we received an overwhelming
> response with this one. We received applications from 63 girls,
> bringing with them 46 mothers and they all seemed to have a wonderful