Hire A Photo Booth For Your Event

At our mother daughter dance we had a professional photo booth.  At first we weren't sure if this was a good idea but it ended up being a lot of fun.  There were a lot of troops attending and we didn't want to have a free for all, so we gave year troop a time slot.  The slots were a half hour, which was plenty of time.  There were glasses, masks, headbands and many other props.  The photo strips were free and they were also downloaded to shutterfly so we could order more.  The mom's even had fun and all piled into the booth.
This is a great idea for any event!!

Mother Daughter Luau

     Every year our association has a mother daughter dance.  Its usually held around Mothers Day.  This year is was held a little earlier.  Everyone looks forward to this yearly event.  The theme this year was a Hawaiian luau. All troops from seniors to daisies attend and are so excited to be there.  When you enter there is a table with name tags and your table number.  All troops are seated together, if the mothers have girls in multiple troops then they are seated with the troop of their choice. Some years the girls are given a raffle ticket for something special that will be raffled off during the evening.
     The mother daughter dance is held a the same venue every year.  A professional photographer is there and photos are available for purchase.  Pricing is very reasonable $12.00 for a 5x7 in a acrylic frame and two wallets sizes.  The backgrounds and props are coordinated with the theme of the dance. Every troop must donate at least one raffle basket with the theme or their choice.  Money is raised to keep the costs of the dance low.  Every year the food options are different.  This year family style entrees were served.  Some of them were not too kid friendly but the mothers enjoyed it.  
     The evening starts out with dinner and desert. During dinner volunteer awards are given. Troops that have accomplished the bronze, silver or gold awards are acknowledged.   Afterwards, the music gets everyone dancing.  Our DJ knows the most up to date music. There is always the Hokey Pokey, Casper Slide, Chicken Dance and Cotton Eyed Joe.  Everyone knows  the dance is not complete without the limbo, hula hoop contest and my favorite the mother daughter slow dance.  This year we were all lucky enough to be serenaded  by the girls with their favorite song " Let it go".  The dance is my favorite part of the year.  We are all blessed to have these beautiful daughters and spend some special time with them.
   
     

Scavenger Hunt To Complete The Amaze Journey

     After we went to our journey weekend, we needed to complete a service project.  The girls came up with a service project for our local crisis center.   They decided they wanted to do a scavenger hunt.  A week before our hunt we picked three long blocks in our neighborhood that we wanted to go to.  One girl scout lived on each block.  Paper bags with notes attached to them were distributed to all of the houses letting them know we would be arriving during our regular meeting time. The note stated that a girl scouts lives on their block and we would be doing a scavenger hunt next week during the times on 4:30 to 6:00.  We requested items such as toothpaste, tooth brushes, deodorant, soap, lotion, shampoo, conditioner and other personal items.  If they didn't have anything we would also accept can or boxed food.  Participants had to leave their items on the front porch and if nothing was there the girls would be ringing the doorbell.                  The day of our scavenger hunt the girls split into three groups.   A lot of the neighbors left the bags on the doorstep. Everyone was excited to go and do the hunt. Our neighborhood was very generous and the girls had a great time.  Points were given for items, food was one point and personal items two points.  We didn't give out prizes, we just counted our items and tallied the points.  After all the hard work we celebrated with pizzas and chocolate chip cookies.  The scavenger hunt turned out to be a success for us and the crisis center!

Surprise, We Are Going Bowling!!

This year we wanted to do something different, so we planned a surprise party for the girls.  When all the girls arrived they were all ready for our regular meeting.  The leader told them to gather all their things because we were leaving.  The girls looked totally confused, she told them we were going bowling. "What? We are going bowling now?" one of the girls asked.  She told them "Yes, right now!"  Then they all started jumping up and down.  We got a great deal on the bowling from Double Take Offers.  It included 3 games of bowling, pizza, pop and shoes for four girls for $18.00.  The girls bowled only two games because we stopped to have pizza and awards.  The bowling alley was nice enough to give us coupons for one game that we can use next year.  All the girls got bowling pins that were painted green with a gold bow.  We brought sharpies so they could all exchange autographs. This was a great way to end the year!

Journey Amaze Overnighter

Well we survived our Journey overnighter.  The turnout was great, there were about thirty girls and ten moms. Our troop was the first to arrive and claim our spots in a very large room. The girls ate dinner and hung our for about an hour before they started working.  They all introduced themselves and got into small groups.  They talked about stereotypes and came up with really cute skits to show that they understood was stereotypes were.  More fun activities from the journey book were completed.  At the end of the night the girls had about an hour to come up with a plan to complete their journey.  The plan was a service project they wanted to do and how to implement it.  Our girls completed three different plans, so at our next meeting we can get started. This really was a nice change of pace for our girls and a fun way to start a journey. Our troop completed the Amaze journey and one other as juniors,it was a lot of work.  I would suggest to anyone doing a journey the second time around to attend a class offered your council.  It was fun!!

Journey in a weekend

Our troop is going to attend a Journey in a weekend at one of the campgrounds that the girl scouts own.  I am very excited about this because it took us about six months to complete our other two journeys we did as juniors.  I hoping this will be fun for the girls because it is compact and taught by someone other than their usual leaders.  There isn't too much information given on the description of the weekend so it really shall be a surprise.  I don't even know what to expect.  Has anyone else had fun with journey weekends?


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Girl Scouts Dolls made by Adora

I love it when I find Girl Scout Dolls or outfits.  While searching the web, I found these really cute 18" Dolls that come in variety of outfits.  What I noticed first, was that there were Daisy, Brownie and Junior uniforms on the dolls.  They are so cute!!   I know my daughter would love to have one.  Let me know what you think. 

Here is the link to the store:
http://www.adoradolls.com/6-years/18-fashion-play-dolls.html#