5 Flowers, 4 Stories, 3 Cheers for ANIMALS! Recruitment Event

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1 5 Flowers, 4 Stories, 3 Cheers for ANIMALS! Recruitment Event Purpose of Event: Recruitment of new Daisy girls. Feel free to invite community members and consider flyering the schools to attract more girls. You should also invite current girls and troops so they can talk to the new girls about Girl Scouting and the journeys. Prior to the event: Create and dispense invitations with all needed parent/guardian information. Include the following information: Invite the parent to attend so you may speak to her about becoming a troop leader. Cost: $12 membership fee and registration form (if not current) Time, Date, Place Information Length of Event: Hour and a half Event may be enhanced to be longer depending on activity choices. Set-Up: 45 minutes to 1 hour You may want to make nametags ahead of time if you are expecting a lot of new girls. Divide the girls into groups by grade level and/or by school. Have useful recruitment information at the registration table, such as the Welcome to Girl Scouting brochure, recruitment flyers for girls and adults, 100 th Anniversary events, and other upcoming council and service unit events. Sample Event Timeline: 5:45 6:00 Registration and Starting Activity 6:00 6:15 Opening Ceremony quick introductions and recite Girl Scout Promise & Law 6:15 6:30 Rotation between Stations 1, 2, 3 6:30 6:35 Travel between Stations 6:35 6:50 Rotation between Stations 1 2, 3 6:50 6:55 Travel between Stations 6:55 7:10 Rotation between Stations 1, 2, 3 7:10 7:30 Closing Ceremony, distribute any information for upcoming year Don t forget to organize a clean-up crew!

2 Supply List General Supplies Masking tape Scissors Paper towels Registration Table Supplies Black or Blue Pens Registration Forms Petty Cash Envelope Nametags for Girls Markers (in case of incorrect spelling on nametag) Service Unit information Station Supplies 5 Flowers, 4 Stories, 3 Cheers for Animals! girl journey books (1 per station) Streamers of assorted colors Stereo with CD of music Paper bag (1 per girl) Twigs, leaves, fabric, and other decorating materials for nest craft Hardening clay (1 ball per girl) Origami Paper (2 pieces per girl)

3 Facilitator Instructions Volunteer Arrival / Set Up (45 minutes to 1 hour) Let volunteers know what their role will be for the event. Pass out Facilitator Instructions to each volunteer for reference throughout the event. Set up the materials at each of the three main activity stations and the opening activity station. Registration Table (15 minutes) Set up your Registration Table(s) near the entry door. The more volunteers you have doing the check in process, the smoother it will go. Give each girl their nametag so girls can easily learn each others names. If a large troop arrives, ask that only the adult troop leader come to the registration table and the girls stand off to the side away from the registration table or go directly to the opening activity station. In this case, give the leader all of her girls nametags. This should truly only take 15 minutes, but allow additional time for late arrivals. Early Arrivals / Opening Activity If any girls arrive early, have them play a big game of animal charades! Have the girls stand in a circle with one girl in the middle. The girl in the middle should act like an animal (you may need to give the girl some ideas), and whichever girl guesses the animal correctly gets to be in the middle! Opening Ceremony (15 minutes) Gather together as a large group. If space allows, form a large circle. Show girls how to make the Girl Scout hand sign. Recite the Girl Scout Promise & Law. You may want to make a few copies of this to pass around and share. Activity Options (55 minutes) Choose from three of the four activities. Rotate groups every 15 minutes. 1. Welcome Story 2. Fly Away 3. Animal Craft 4. Animal Yoga Closing Ceremony (15 minutes) Gather everyone together in a large friendship circle and do the friendship squeeze. Friendship Circle: Each girl crosses her right hand over her left, holding hands with the person(s) next to her, making a circle. Friendship Squeeze: The girls in the friendship circle pass on a squeeze. One girl starts it by squeezing the hand of the person next to her, and then each girl passes it on until it reaches the person who started it. You may also sing Make New Friends or another song if time allows. Clean-Up Organize a clean-up crew. If you know ahead of time what the tasks might be, make a clean-up list. Have someone assign jobs and check off when completed.

4 Activity 1: Welcome Story In this station, girls will hear the Welcome to This Amazing Animal Adventure story, found on pages 5-13 in the girl journey book. Materials Required: 3 Cheers girl journey book Introduce the girls to the journey, explaining that it is about animals and caring for animals. Then read to them the introductory story, asking them questions along the way about the flower friends and the cat. Activity 2: Fly Away In this station, girls will get to fly like a bird and better understand animal movement. Materials Required: 2 long streamers (4 per girl), stereo with CD of music Instructions: Have each girl choose two streamers for each wing. Show them how to clasp the streamers together in each hand to form the wings. Allow them to practice flapping their wings. Turn on the music and invite the girls to fly away by dancing, skipping, running, etc. to the rhythm. Change the music every minute or so to encourage the girls to move in time to the new beat. Invite another girl to lead the flock each time the song changes. For an added challenge, call out the names of birds and suggest that the girls move like that bird. Some fun examples are: waddle like a penguin, hover like a hummingbird over a flower, run like a roadrunner, and balance on one leg like a flamingo. Activity 3: Animal Crafts In this station, girls will make an animal craft! Choose one of the following: 1. Bird Nest Materials: paper bags (1 per girl), twigs, leaves, fabric, and other decorating materials Instructions: Pass out the paper bags, one to each girl. Help the girls scrunch the bag into a nest shape. Allow the girls to use the craft materials to decorate the inside and outside of their nest. Birds like something strong and protective on the outside and something nice and soft on the inside! Show the girls pages of the girl journey book as inspirations for their nests. 2. My Favorite Animal Materials: hardening clay (1 ball per girl) Give the girls some clay and have them each create their favorite animal! Then have a parade of the clay animals if time allows. 3. Cat Origami Materials: Origami Paper (2 pieces per girl) Follow the directions on page 53 of the girl journey book to help the girls create an origami cat!

5 Activity 4: Animal Yoga Gloria the Morning Glory is from Japan, so one of the fun activities from the journey is animal yoga. The positions are all named and based after animals! The first three poses listed below are on pages 50 and 51, and the others are additional fun animal poses. No Materials Required Butterfly Sitting down, press the bottoms of your feet together. Keep your back straight. Now, gently rock your knees up and down, just like butterfly wings! Turtle Curl up on the floor. Tuck your knees under your tummy. Round your back as if you were a turtle in its shell. Slowly stretch one arm forward, then slowly bring it back. Repeat with one arm at a time, then one leg at a time. Stretch your neck, too. Crane Stand on both feet, keeping both knees facing straight ahead. Lift one leg, touching your foot to your knee. To balance, put your arms out just like wings. This may take some practice! Bear Walking Get on all fours, and crawl like a bear! Stretch the crawl as far as you can, and don t forget to roar! Flamingo Stand up straight. Put your hands together, lean forward, and lift one leg up while keeping your chin up. This one takes a bit of balance! Owl Stand up straight, and then bend at the waist. Put your arms all the way back so your back and arms create a table-top, and keep your head forward. You can woo too! Downward Dog Stand with your feet flat and bend at the waist until your hands reach the ground. Scoot your feet back so you create an upside-down V. Bark! Lion Get down on your knees, back straight. Stick your tongue out as far as you can. Breathe out with force and roar! Camel Sit on your knees, reach behind your body, and grab the soles of your feet. Cat Get on all fours, and arch your back really tall like an angry cat. Then let your back gently fall away towards the ground and stretch. You can hiss when your back is arched up, and meow when your back is down.

6 Cobra Lay down on your stomach. Place your hands directly by your chest, and push your upper body upward as far as you can. Feel the stretch, and hiss!

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