More Parade Prep (or) "Somebody's Something is Stuck to My Elbow"

Tonight? More parade prep. We assembled close to 40 tissue paper banners! Stay tuned for pictures of our completed float. In the meantime, here are more pictures of flag making.

Brownie Magic

We employed our most princess-like manners at Brownie Magic this past Saturday. Ms. Angie and Ms. Anjela took charge this weekend and escorted us through science experiments, puppet shows, singing, Green Starlette demonstrations and much more. Here is more proof of our exciting day at Camp Whispering Pines.

Next Float Assignment

All of the activities we are doing related to our Nine Flags Festival float and our book club selection are steps for earning our Hispanic Heritage patch.

Here is your next assignment. Each girl needs to make a Mexican flag to hold during the parade. Any format is fine.

Here are some ideas:
Mexico Flag Coloring Page
Flag Coloring Activity

Here is some information about the Mexican Flag:
February 24th is Mexican Flag Day
TIDES pictures of the Mexican Flag
the Eagle and the Snake

Making Float Decorations

Tonight we began the crazed process of making float decorations. Ms. Alisa taught us how to make tissue flowers -just watch the video so you can make thousands of needed flowers :)



We also made cut tissue paper art. Both of these crafts were inspired from Ms. Alisa's TIDES teacher expeditions to Mexico.

Here are more pictures from our first Mexican craft night...

Meet Josefina at the Nine Flags Festival

This is news to the few of you who were not at our last meeting...

Because the troop had such a blast participating in the homecoming parade...

and the theme of the Nine Flags festival this year is Mexico...

We have altered the plans for our Book Club party to include entering a Meet Josefina float in the Nine Flags Festival Parade. The girls are ecstatic about decorating a Meet Josefina float. Our next three Monday night meetings, the afternoon after Brownie Magic and the day of the festival will be dedicated to making Mexican crafts with Ms. Alisa to decorated our float. We will hammer out more details at our November 17th meeting. Meanwhile, the girls started brainstorming while they were waiting to be picked up Sunday morning.

You are not coloring until someone claims this underwear!

PowWow in the Pines in Pictures...

Nicole and Miriam very excited about camp...unfortunately it is 8:30 Friday night

A beautiful start to our day at Camp Robinwood

Activity 1

Many games involving sticks...

and arrows

PB&J on the green

Learning the basics before hitting the water

Stories with Navajo...this is when we learned the legend of Red Wing and the origins of Spanish moss

Downtime, puppy games, and wish come true rituals

one, two, three SWAP

A quick breeze through McDonald's and we are on the way to Miriam's house for smore making and slumber partying

Pj's, sleeping bags and the first chapter of Meet Josefina marks a nice end to a busy day

Breakfast!

Our final activity...recording our favorite things from our PowWow in the Pines ADVENTURE (a bigger one than you might imagine)!