Potter and Snacks, Part 2

I generally take more than one meeting to earn badges, and it is not uncommon for me to be in the middle of more than one at a time, depending on which badge it is.  Right now we are working on Potter and Snacks for my Brownies and will give my Daisies fun patches for pottery and cooking.

Our first two meetings were pretty much repeats since a line of bad weather kept several girls home for the first meeting, at which we made pinch pots and trail mix.  At the second meeting we used different ingredients and made more tail mix.  We made coil pots and clay animals and talked about scoring, wedging, and shaping clay and how our air dry clay was different from the bisque ware we painted over the summer.  We also talked about ways clay pottery is used in everyday life.  This was a repeat of a discussion we had at the pottery place this summer (1 girl wasn't there).

Potter and Snacks

My troop is Daisies and Brownies and most of the Brownies have been with me for three years, the Daisies for one, though I picked up a couple of new girls this year.

Over the summer I send out a survey to the Brownies and asked them to let me know which badges or journeys interested them.  Pottery and Snacks were two that got a lot of votes.  During the summer, our cookie event was a trip to a pottery painting place and all the girls enjoyed it, so I thought it would be a good way to start the year.

Though I have Daisies and Brownies, I try to keep the whole group doing the same thing.  If you review my posts from last year, you can see how I related a lot of Brownie badges to Daisy petals.  Well, try as I might I couldn't figure out how to relate these badges to un-done petals or Daisy badges, so my Daisies will get fun patches, and my Brownies, badges.

While I was having my initial parent meeting I had play doh (from my supply stash) on the table for the girls.  I also gave them some coffee stirrers and told them to make me something.  Once I was done with the parents, I had each girl grab a ball of play doh and I showed them how to make a pinch pot.  They all tried it with the play doh.  I then collected the play doh and passed out air dry clay (bought at JoAnn's with a 50% off coupon) and the girls made pinch pots which I then put away to dry (we have a Girl Scout storage room at church).  After sending the girls to wash, and clearing the tables, it was time to work on the Snacks badge.