Mini meat balls

I had so much fun making meat balls and getting my hands into the mixture. I made mashed potato and meat balls for diner. It was really delicious. We had some mixture left over so I made some very small meat balls to stick on tooth picks with some cheese, gherkin, and pickled onion to take as a snack to Brownies. They were really really yummy.

 

Brownie badges

Through the holidays I have been very busy doing things for Brownie badges. This is a happy picture made from natural stuff with a colourful frame around it. I gave it to Auntie Julia as a thank you because she gave us a lot of collage "treasures".

I made a telephone using 2 tins and a pieces of string. It's really cool how the sound travels in waves along the string.

We picked up ice blocks without using our hands. We put a piece of string across the ice block and sprinkled salt on it. And then left it for a little while.

When we came back we could pick up the two ends of the string and the ice block was stuck to it.
I put pepper in a bowl of water. The pepper floats. Then I put a tooth pick in and nothing happened. Then I put some dish washing liquid on the end of the toothpick and put it in again. This was what happened. It was so cool.

I made a sun dial. I put a stick in the ground and every 1/2 an hour I marked where the shadow was and wrote down what time it is.

During the week I could look over and see what time it was. It's so cool.

Conservation work

This morning we went to the Culverden Reserve to help plant 1000 plants and trees.

We were shown how to do it properly. I had nice warm gloves with and Mum bought garden gloves that we could wear over our warm ones so our hands were not too cold. It was a really cold day.
Mum helped with digging holes and planting. The digging was quite hard. I could not use the big spade nicely. I made one hole and it was just too hard so I did not make any more.

There were 9 Brownies / Guides / Rangers and 4 mothers who came to help. So we got so much done really quickly. The man phoned the lady who was coming from town and said "if you don't get here soon there won't be any plants left to plant they are going so quickly".
Our Guiding group with 2 local helpers.

Promise

We had a promise ceremony for some of the girls today.

As a sixer







I took up the girl in my six who was saying her promise.

Mum also made her promise today.

Mum got some lovely flowers.

Region Brownie Camp Day 3

This morning we packed our bags and then went for a long walk to the swimming pool. It was at least 1 1/2 km away.
I really enjoyed swimming in the warm pools.
Then we went to a park that was close to the pools and had lunch. They had the BBQ on the back of a trailer and cooked the sausages on there.

We played a little bit at the park and then walked back.

This is my group. The Rosebuds.
Before we went home they handed out the photo frames with our photos in. They also gave each of us a patch, a pen and a photo of the group of us before the disco.
We all had such a great time.

Region Brownie Camp Day 2

In the morning we had a Guide Zone which is like a mini church service where we think about all the things that we have and thank God for what He has provided. We went through a time tunnel and then looked at photos of things now and what they had to use in the years before.

Then we collected sticks and bark for our campfire.

We spent most of the day doing different activities in our groups.

We made little crumpets / pancakes on Buddie burners.

We made pet rocks. Mum was the leader for this. At the end of the day she made a little pig for Dad and called it piggles.

We decorated photo frames.

We got to dress up in old Brownie uniforms and have our photos taken. We will put the photo in the frame we made.

Once we had our photo taken we played a game that they would have played years ago.

We got to sit in a a canvas tent and learn about different things like camping in the rain. We learnt that if it rains you must not touch the side of the tent cause the water will come in.

We got to decorate a biscuit with icing sugar and sweets and then we made ice cream. I loved doing that. We got to eat our biscuits for afternoon tea and we had our ice scream for pudding.

We went to a play ground area and we went on a really fun flying fox. It went over that little pond and our feet touched the top of the plants.

There was a rope swing. This area was called the Confidence course.

We made little owls because we learnt that Brownie leaders were called "Brown Owl".

There was karaoke where we had to sing into a microphone and see how good you can be. The words were on the TV. I sang "The Dancing Queen". We watched Mama Mia before we went on camp so I was glad to recognize some of the songs.

We got to go to the Scout camp and see all the things they had made. My group even got to go across this bridge.

We had to make up a skit for the camp fire. None of them were very good though although the campfire was lovely. It was nice to wear my campfire blanket with all the patches on that I have collected.
After the campfire we got dressed up in costumes and we had our photo taken. Mum has put a red circle around my face.

Then we had a disco. They gave us glow in the dark sticks that we made necklaces or bangles with. It was so much fun.

Region Brownie Camp Day 1

I was really excited about going to camp today. It was a Region Brownie Camp where at least 2 girls from every unit were invited. I was the only one from our unit though so Mum asked if she could go as well as a leader so that she did not have to travel into town twice.
Once everyone had arrived we played a game where we linked our hands and then tried to get out without letting go.
They expected 80 girls for the camp.

When we had been put into our groups we decorated our group box where we kept our pencil case and artwork. I was in Rosebuds.

Then we coloured in a picture and put our name on it. These were laminated and were our place mats for the weekend.

Chocolate Caramel Slice

I made these yummy slices for Brownies today. This was the last thing I had to do to get my biscuit badge for this year. I missed a couple of things while we were away - so this was a fun way of catching up.
First crush two packets of Chocolate Guide Biscuits into fine crumbs.
Add 75g melted butter and press into a 20cm square dish (with grease proof paper lining the tin).

Put a tin of condensed milk on top and bake at 160C for 30-40 min or until golden and set in the middle.

Slice and enjoy.

Brownie Registration

We had our Brownie and Guide registration evening today and we went for a long walk.


After the walk we had a BBQ tea with salads. It was really yummy and everyone liked the milk tart too.

Some of the Brownies went up to Guides that day too. So we said goodbye to them.