Girl Scout Promise Flower Pot

A great (and easy) Daisy project to reinforce the Girl Scout Promise.

Advance prep/supplies:
1. mini clay pots
2. self-sticking foam flowers & bugs (or any kind of flower stickers, but 3 dimensional are more fun)
3. green card stock
4. GS Promise pre-printed on mailing label stickers or paper
5. fun decorative scissors
6. green pipe cleaners (chenille sticks), popsicle stick or balsa wood stick.
7. styrofoam or floral foam precut and fitted into clay pots
8. fake moss or crinkly stuffing
9. masking or duct tape
10. markers

Activity plan:
1. Pass out card stock and Promise sheet only.  Have girls affix promise to card stock and then trim edges of card stock with decorative scissors.
2. Write names on back of green sheet.
3. pass out foam flower stickers and clay pot for girls to decorate green sign and pot.
4. use masking tape or duct tape to attach pipe cleaner to back of cardstsock.
5. Help each Girl Scout push pipe cleaner into floral foam and cover with crinkly paper or moss.

Experience shows...

Girls love to decorate!  Always have extras!

Alternatives:

1. cut out petals and create a Girl Scout Daisy with a blue promise center circle on green cardstock instead of making a bunch of flowers.
2. Buy bunches of fake flowers and have girls stick them into floral foam.  

Daisy Banners

This Daisy decided to add a heart on top of
her blue promise circle!

We love to reinforce the Daisy petal theme with our Kindergarteners.  What better way than to give them a little take home banner?  

Advance prep/supplies:
1. yarn
2. sticks broken to approximately one foot lengths
3. "Daisy blue" felt or fleece
4. pre-cut flower petals and a promise circle to correspond to official Daisy petals, preferably sticker-backed felt.  To emphasize the promise circle, you may need to cut out an additional white circle slightly large than the blue promise circle.
5. fabric glue, preferably Fabri-tek.
6. Make a sample (see note below about glues).

Activity Plan:
1. Distribute blue felt/fleece, sticks and yarn.
2. Have girls fold felt over stick and apply strip of glue.
3. Help girls tie yarn to each end of stick
4. Turn over 'banner' so foldover is hidden (unlike this sample photo!).
5. Stick or glue petals (in any order) around a blue promise circle (if needed, adhere a white circle below the blue circle, for emphasis).

Experience shows...
It's really hard to work with glue and felt.  Buy the best fabric glue that you can.  I recommend Fabri-tek.  The felt absorbs the glue.  You should experiment at home first.

Alternatives:
You can buy felt letters and symbols, with sticker backs.  If you want, you can have the girls add their initials to their banner.