The quickfire planning thread.

[snowy91]

design own choc bar,
make choc cornflake cakes
choc egg and spoon race (ours love it!)
fishes with choc bar names

snow

[little_owl]

Theme: Snow
- make snowflakes from paper
- make snowcones to eat!
- game: snowball fight with newspaper balls. skipping rope divides room in half. End of 5 mins, team with least 'snow' on their side wins

Next theme: the carribean!!

[*alli*]

non alcoholic cocktails, hawaiian skirts from strips of sugar paper on string that can be tied around the waist, fruit kebabs, get coloured sand and make 'sand-globes', pinch sum ideas from the changing the world project thats about a cafe!

next theme: activities to understand the promise

[rawrness]

Theme: promise

Brainstorm of ideas about what the promise means
Promise flowers with each line of the poem on a petal along with one way to fulfil that part of the promise
Playing "21" with the promise - go round in a circle, each girl can say up to three words than the one that finishes the whole promise is out
Beetle drive with the trefoil
Learn the promise in a different language/sign language
Make up a play/rap/storyboard of the promise

Next theme: Socks!

[snowy91]

design own sock
xmas stockings
sock puppets

race - in sixes
lines as follows (B= brownies, S = socks, SW = sweets) -line for each six/team/group etc

BBBBBB S SW

girl runs to socks and puts on hands runs to sweets (in a lunch box type thing with lid), open box and take sweets, runs back and tags next person.......best to use wrapped sweets.

tissues!

[vickey]

chocolate (buttons)

towers, create a person, flour game, chopsticks - one bowl to next
names of choc bars with letters jumbled up, melt choc with range of things to add to design and make own six choc bar

another Guider recently showed me if you put a jar of choc spread in a microwave you get instant choc fondou (scuse spelling!)

next theme; puppets

[vickey]

sorry think i missed a page!

[rawrness]

Theme: Tissues!

Patchwork quilt of different colours/patterns of tissues!
Tissue paper flowers/pictures
Toilet roll mummies
Make your own tissue box cover (fabric, cardboard, anything!)
Fruit salad but with tissue related things (Klenexx, achoo, bless you, etc!)
Brainstorm in sixes of what you can use tissues for

Theme: puppets!
Port/starboard game with different actions for each type of puppet, e.g. string, sock, shadow then backstage, curtains drawn, etc
Making puppets of course, lots of things to play with - socks, wooden spoons, black paper, lolly sticks, string, paper mache if you're feeling adventurous! etc
Performance!

[rawrness]

Oh and next theme: pudding party!

[rawrness]

Is nobody else around?! I thought the pudding party theme would be good!