Girl Scout Ways and Snacks

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The first two badges our troop is going to earn are the Brownie Girl Scout Ways badge and the Snacks badge.  The Snacks badge requires making four differnent snacks, so we will spread it out over four different meetings. While not necessarily part of the badge requirements, I'm going to teach the girls to read a recipe and measure ingredients as well as the meaning of some common cooking terms.  Our first activity was to make smoothies.  Here is the recipe we used:

1 ripe bannana
1 cup plain or vanilla yogurt
2 cups frozen strawberries
1/2 cup orange juice
1 teaspoon of honey

Place all ingredients in a blender and blend until frothy

I arranged for us to have one blender per four or five girls, and I put two blenders on a table with a leader supervising both groups at once.

Here is the outline of our meeting:
Coloring sheet with Girl Scout Promise
Opening flag ceremony with Girl Scout Promise and Girl Scout Law
Learn two songs as part of Girl Scout Ways badge:  Make New Friends and Brownie Smile
Girl Scout Ways:  Leave a place better than you found it.  We went outside and picked up trash.  I gave each girl a plastic grocery bag to use as a glove and I held one for the trash they picked up.
Wash up; use restroom if necessary
Make Smoothies and talk about how we could change the recipe.  Drink them.
Closing with friendship circle.

This meeting met one requirement for the Snacks badge and two for Girl Scout Ways.