Those first few Daisy Scout meetings and more!

Here is a collection of meeting starters from all over the country.

Compiled by: http://www.girlscoutsofpaloalto.org

• Download this Jump Start Guide to your first 6 meetings! Take the stress out of your first few meetings with this Jump Start that will walk you through them. (Thanks to Liz Ripke, Girl Scouts Columbia River Council)
• Mini Daisy Jump Start This is a shorter version of the Jump Start Guide
• Four Daisy Meetings A Plan for the first four meetings with your Daisy troop
• First Four Daisy Meetings - another version but this one includes a ceremony worksheet and a blank meeting planner for future meetings
• First Five Daisy Meetings This first set of meetings includes a plan for the investiture ceremony
• Ideas for Daisy Meetings More ideas on how to do the first four meetings.
• A Daisy Year - Meetings 1-15 and Meetings 16-34 This meeting for the year outline gives suggestions on matching activities to petals
• A Daisy Year More detailed ideas for each month of the year
• Sample Daisy Calendar Simple one page set of ideas for a year's worth of meetings
• Options for Daisies Created by St. Louis Girl Scout Council as a year guide to planning Daisy meetings.

Daisy Petal Storybooks

One way for Daisy Girl Scout to learn the Girl Scout Law & earn their petals is to read a book that demonstrates the meaning of that law and them talk about it afterwards.



To help with this Jessica Rothberg has created a list of children's picture books listed under the Girl Scout Law to which the book applies.

Flag Ceremony

Standard Opening Flag Ceremony
Script:
Colorguard, Attention! Will the audience please rise? Colorguard, advance! Scout salute!
(wait for colorguard to reach the front) Please repeat the Pledge of Allegiance with me.
(repeat pledge) Colorguard, post the colors!
Colorguard, dismissed. The audience may be seated.

Standard Closing Flag Ceremony
Script:
Colorguard advance. Will the audience please rise?
Colorguard, retire the colors. Audience salute.
(wait until flags leave the arena) Dismissed.

Friendship Squeeze & Make New Friends

Friendship Squeeze
Have all girls and adults stand in a circle holding hands. You can do the traditional right over left crossed
arms if it is not too complicated.

Discuss the purpose and the “rules” of the squeeze, we are passing our friendship on to the next girl in the form of a gentle squeeze, reminding us that we are all connected to each other. No hard squeezes and no fake squeezes.
You may have to practice several times to get it right. You might ask the girls when they have received
the squeeze to put their right foot into the circle, or you can keep its location a secret.

You usually start the squeeze but later on you can designate a special girl to start it.
When the squeeze gets back to you, you can say “Goodnight, Daisies” or goodbye or whatever is
appropriate and release them.

Older Girl Scouts like to spin out. On the signal and still holding hands, each girl at once lifts their
crossed arms over their heads and turns facing outside of the circle, uncrossing their hands and bringing
them down by their sides. They then release hands.

Make New Friends
Make new friends, but keep the old,
One is silver and the other gold.

A circle’s round, it has no end,
That’s how long I’d like to be your friend.

Promise Game

1. Start with the first word of the promise and holding the ball, say “On” and pass the ball to the next girl who should say “my” and then pass the ball to the next girl who says “honor.”

2. Go slowly at first, helping the girls get the rhythm of the game and the words right the first time around.

3. Then try to go a little faster and if a girl misses her word she comes sits next to the leader (the end of the circle) and gets another chance at the end.

4. To make the game more challenging roll the ball to random girls who have to say the promise words in order.

A year’s worth of meeting activities

15 Detailed Daisy Meetings & 17 General Daisy Meetings

Daisy Petal Ideas & More Petal Ideas

Kaper Charts

Scouting Web

Daisy Troop Start-up Kit