Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of the Girl Scouts of the USA, was born on Halloween. Our troop is working on our Girl Scout Way badge and one of the requirements is to celebrate Juliette Low's birthday.
To celebrate we made cake mix cookies, and shared them with the Daisies, Cadettes and Seniors who meet at the same time we do in nearby rooms. While we were waiting for the cookies to bake, we learned about Juliette by going through this story. I also read from the Girls' Guide to Girl Scouting and showed them some pictures.
The cake mix cookies were good, and I think it is a good recipe for young kids because it can easily be made without a mixer (no worries about little fingers!).
Cake Mix Cookies:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Ingredients:
1/2 cup vegetable oil
1 box cake mix, any flavor
2 eggs
1 cup mix-ins (chocolate chips, M&Ms, raisins, nuts, etc.
Mix together the eggs and the oil. Add cake mix, and mix until blended. Add mix-ins. Form into 24 balls, place on two cookie sheets. Bake 9-12 minutes.
If you are following along, at this time, we have finished three requirements for our Snacks Badge: we made smoothies, savory snacks and now a sweet snack. We still have to make an energy snack and we need to talk about the research we did on food additives. We have also fulfilled three requirements for Girl Scout Way: We celebrated Juliette Low's birthday, we learned three Girl Scout songs, and we left a place better than we found it (picked up trash on the playground/parking lot). I'm going to have moms who were Girl Scouts come and talk to the troop about "the good old days" and we are going to do skits about the Girl Scout Law.
At our next meeting, we are going to start our Dancer badge; a dance instructor will be visiting. We'll get back to the earlier badges when we get time. I would like to get them finished before Christmas! We are going to have to push some of them out a little more though because the weather was horrible last night and I only had about half my girls.
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