Savory Snacks, Knives, and JGL

Some of you will be glad to know that we finished our Snacks badge at our most recent meeting.  As I read the instructions for the Snacks badge, girls are supposed to make four different snacks.  We had a bad storm the night of our first meeting so several girls were absent.  Because of that, we repeated the energy snack requirement. In total, we spent part of five meetings working on the Snacks badge.

This week we made Ants on a Log and Spiders. Ants on a Log is celery sliced in 2-3 inch chunks and filled with peanut butter, cream cheese or some other sticky substance.  On top of that go the "ants", raisins. Spiders are two Ritz Crackers, stuck together with peanut butter etc. with four stick pretzels broken in half stuck in as legs.  Raisin eyes can be added.

After we did the Pledge, Promise and Law I sat the girls down and talked to them about using knives and knife safety, particularly passing knives handle first and waiting for the recipient to say "thank you".  I had large kitchen knives and cutting boards for the girls to use to cut up the celery.  I gave each girl a full rib of celery to cut into three or more pieces.  Since we don't have any peanut allergies, we used peanut butter to fill the logs.  Surprisingly to me, many of the girls didn't want the raisins. 


The spiders were fun and most of the girls enjoyed making and eating them. 

Since this was our last October meeting we talked about Juliette Gordon Low and had a brief Rededication and Court of Awards.