Tagalong Chocolate Chunk Cookies

ok, this is ridiculously self-promotional, but I made these Tagalong Chocolate Chunk Cookies and blogged about them on my other blog. I thought you might like to try them!

I think when we do our cookie booths at the end of Feb, we're going to print out a few different recipes that call for Girl Scout cookies and have them on-hand to give out at the store. We're givers, we are.

An Update on our December Craft and our January Meeting

So for our Christmas party in Dec, we went with the felt Christmas trees...

It was a little chaotic because we had 15 girls there, most of whom had never sewed before. We probably should have enlisted a few more parents to help with that one! At one point I looked over at my co-leader and she was just holding her head in her hands (it was also the week before Christmas break. Everyone was excited.)

So. January. We had a short meeting this month because it's cookie season and we wanted to meet with the parents for a bit to talk cookie sales. 

We started with snack and then, because it was in the 60's in Colorado in January, we went outside for a brief scavenger hunt. I gave the girls each a sheet of paper with five things they had to find...the only rules were 1.) they had to stay where I could see them and 2.) they couldn't write the same answer in more than one spot. Here were the things they had to find:

Find something that:

1.) is blue

2.) needs water to grow

3.) is alive but not a human!

4.) starts with the same letter as your name

5.) is a different color in winter than summer

Since we're doing the Water Journey this year, I made a few of the items watery. We didn't have a race or a winner, just had the girls talk about what they found when they came back inside. 

Then we did our craft for the day -- a Water Friendship Bracelet.

from Classroom Magic

Each of the beads represented a stage in the water cycle. We had the beads and string pre-packaged in ziploc baggies to make craft time easier...but the catch was that the girls didn't make their own bracelets. I told them they were making one for someone else, but wouldn't tell them who. When we finished with craft time, we all sat in a circle and each girl passed her bracelet to the person on her right. I figured it was the easiest way to exchange friendship bracelets without anyone getting hurt feelings or other drama! They all loved the craft and were excited to exchange with each other.

We finished with The Brownie Smile Song (you can find it on youtube if you need the melody), the Pledge (I know...this should go at the beginning but there's no good place for it when we're having snack and crafts and...it just seems to go better at the end) and the Girl Scout Promise. Then we sang "Make New Friends" while in our Friendship Circle, did the Friendship Squeeze and dismissed until next time!