Second Year Daisies

You survived the first year as a Girl Scout Leader.  Now what?

You're on easy street now, right?  Wrong.  Girls are a year older and now they have invited all their friends to join so all of the sudden, your troop size doubles!  It's time to recruit more moms and survey the skills and interests of all your volunteers!

Here's a suggested plan for the 2nd year of Daisy Girl Scout life:

September -- Review petals and 1/2 completed Journey

October -- Journey Session 4 & Investiture for new Scouts, Magenta: Respect Authority

November -- Journey Session 5

December -- Journey Session 6, Needle Arts (Vacation activity)

January -- Cookie Training "cookieland" role plays, Journey Session 7 & 8
February -- Yellow: Friendly & Helpful, Thinking Day, Flat Juliette project

March -- Orange: Responsible for What I Say and Do, Thinking Day, GS Birthday

April -- Light Blue: Honest & Fair, Rose: Make the World a Better Place, Earth Day

May -- plan Flying Up Ceremony, Violet: Be a Sister to Every Girl Scout (again)

June -- Flying Up/Bridging Ceremony

Sure, I'm a Daisy Leader - but I need to do WHAT?

You know what it's like.  You've suddenly been made the Daisy leader when you thought you were just volunteering to help at the meetings.  What do you mean you have to collect paperwork, dues and plan meetings???  Isn't there a den mother to do that? Oops, that's Boy Scouts!  Well, we do it a little differently at Girl Scouts but don't despair!  There are lots and lots of resources out there, both free (blogs like these) and at your local Girl Scout Service Center or Daisy Knapsack.  In fact, if you live in a good Council area, you don't have to plan a single meetings -- you can plan your meetings around all the great events that Council organizes. But then again, that would mean you'd need to do Troop Trip forms (hmmmm).  

So reality has set in, you've reserved meeting location and times with the school office and now you are scrambling to organize the first meeting!  Well, here is Girl Scout Maniac to help you through it all - and don't worry - your first year of meetings will be crazy and unorganized, no matter how much you plan.  We are talking about 5 year olds, remember??!!!

So here is a sample meeting plan for your first year of Daisies.