Friendly and Helpful – Sunny’s Petal Ideas
Daisy friendly and helpful is the second trait in the Girl Scout Law. It is Sunny’s line of the law and matches the yellow petal of the Girl Scout Daisy Flower. This is a line of the law that many daisy scouts understand well and truly exemplify. Additionally, these are words that they love to use to describe themselves and others. Plus, they can give many ways to physically be friendly and helpful.
As you plan for your girl scout daisy petal friendly and helpful meeting, keep in mind that the meetings should be girl led as much as possible. While the girl’s Daisy binder doesn’t offer many options for choices for the girls, we found that having 4 – 6 different ideas and letting the girls pick the ones that they wanted to try really kept the meetings girl led at this young age. Furthermore, the girls picked the different activities that they wanted to try while working towards earning a petal. Our agenda below follows the Daisy petal requirements to make earning this petal easy and quick.
We include nine additional friendly and helpful daisy petal activities to help keep this girl scout meeting girl-led. Read on to learn our easy framework for how to earn girl scout Daisy petals, specially the friendly and helpful daisy petal.
Daisy Friendly and Helpful Activities
We have included our sample agenda for our Daisy Girl Scout meeting on Sunny’s petal – friendly and helpful. While you plan out this petal, we suggest taking a peek at the next petal we planned to earn. Why? Because we could decide on 3 – 4 activities that we wanted to try and let our girls pick the one or two they would like to do. This helped us to keep our Daisy meetings more girl-led throughout the year. Be sure to take a peek at our post about Zinni’s petal – considerate and caring.
When you look ahead at future Daisy Girl Scout petals, it’s super easy to allow your scouts to discuss a few activities and decide which they would like to try. We always saved a few minutes at the end of every meeting to preview our next petal with the girls. We found pictures super helpful as the scouts could sort the pictures into ideas they want to try and those that they find not so interesting. Then we could plan our next meeting based off of the girls’ recommendations and even reach out to parents to help with the planning.
Gathering Activity
When scouts first entered our meeting place, they would stop by the communication table near the entryway. Families could find a copy of our agenda at this table, so parents could see what we would work on today. We also had a reminder note so families were able to update their calendar and have a list of anything that would be coming soon. These were great for keeping families informed and engaged. Finally, we used this area to talk with families about any questions they may have.
Across the room from our communication table was our gathering activity. This allowed us to talk with the parents a bit away from the scouts who had their own space. We set up the table with everything the scouts would need. For our group, this was color supplies and copies of the flower friends coloring page. The important thing is to plan an activity that your scouts can do independently and if directions are needed, try to offer picture supports for girls not yet reading.
Since our scouts love to color, we often used the flower color pages from makingfriends.com. These make a great starting activity to let the scouts come in and get started while we answered parent questions and gathered money, forms, etc. We also found that the girls enjoyed coloring and chatting with little assistance from us. Keep reading below for specific friendly and helpful daisy petal ideas.
Sunny’s Story Girl Scouts
We always found story time was a great time for the girls to eat their snack. So, we tried to keep these simple to limited the amount of prep involved. For example, a fruit salad was a great snack as it goes with this story. With snack, this is a great time for the girls to use their manners and practice helping each other, showing you what they already know about being friendly and helpful.
The story can be girl led too. Ask the girls if they would like the story read aloud, watch a YouTube video (yes, these exist), or even read it themselves (if they can read well enough). Our girls loved being read to, but videos were a nice break in our routine. Another option, ask the parents or older siblings each take turns reading a story to the girls. It’s another great way to get families involved in your meetings. Our scouts loved trying to figure out our mystery reader and by opening up to any family members or Girl Scouts, it was constantly a guessing game.
Making a Mural
Our girls loved making a mural for the story. This was a great way for the girls to put the story into their own words and representations. This is also a great time to practice being friendly and helpful as the girls share the supplies and help each other create different images for the mural. Again, try to keep this girl led! Let your scouts decide how they want to make their mural.
A few options for making a mural include:
- The girls can make one large mural, make murals in small groups, or even make individual murals.
- Use paper and crayons, colored pencils, or markers to draw.
- Paint the mural on large thick paper.
- Use paper to create the different characters, setting elements, and plot elements and glue onto paper or a display board.
Be sure to give your girls a set time limit for creating their mural. Then remind them of the time remaining often. Young scouts tend to get carried away with thinking about what to do and may miss out on creating. In addition, they may need some assistance with making sure everyone can help. Stay near your girls during this time to make sure no one is left out of the creation.
Plan for Mistakes
We suggest having a plan for mistakes. If girls are working together to make a mural, they may be a little more sensitive to any mistakes they make since it will affect all the girls. An easy way to fix mistakes is to cover the mistake with a piece of colored paper. The girls can make the new drawing pop out. And if you are really worried about mistakes, all the girls could make their part on special paper and then add the pieces together to make a mural.
Friendly and Helpful Daisy petal Activities
Business Activities for Sunny’s Petal
- Kaper Chart – introduce different jobs for the girls to help out with at the meetings and explain how each girl will get a turn to perform the different jobs. Our caper chart was made on a wheel so it was easy to spin each meeting. Therefore, the yellow circle could be rotated clockwise one turn each meeting. First, girls’ names were written on the butterflies. Next, jobs were written on the petal flowers with a corresponding picture. A picture is helpful in the beginning when your scouts are still learning to read.
- Musical Introductions – have the girls practice introducing themselves and using a handshake. Make this a game by playing some music and when the music stops, girls turn to the nearest scout and introduce themselves. An example to easily extend this to have the girls practice giving and receiving compliments as well.
Friendly and Helpful Daisy petal Craft Ideas
- Making a flower garden – create a physical representation of sunny. Just gather some yellow paper plates, yellow and green construction paper, and green pipe cleaners. Then let the girls use their imagination and maybe a few pictures of sunflowers.
- Coupon Book – have the scouts create a coupon book of different things they could do to practice being friendly and helpful at home. This is wonderful for helping them think about all the ways they are currently being friendly and helpful.
- Cupcake Daisy Helper – use cupcake liners, have the girls cut small lines on the edges to turn into a flower. Glue “A Daisy was Here” note in the middle of each one. As the scouts help out at home, in their neighborhood, or at school, they can leave their cupcake daisy helper flowers to let others know.
- Friendship Chain – let each girl write their name on one paper link and one way they can be friendly or helpful throughout the next week on another paper link (either words or pictures). Then, the scouts can connect their paper links with their troop to make a large paper chain. At your next meeting, the girls can add more links to describe ways that they were friendly and helpful. You could create a longer chain and change the color for each petal and celebrate the girls’ successes throughout the year.
- Friendship Gifts – the girls can make something to give to some of their friends at school, in the neighborhood, or in their other activities. Some examples girls can make include bracelets (use leftover beads and yarn), bookmark (cardstock and ribbons), or cards (paper). Not only will they practice being friendly and helpful while making the gifts, they will practice while handing out the gifts too.
Game Activities
- Friendly, unfriendly game – hang a smiley face on one side of the room and a sad face on the other. Next, read a statement. If it is friendly, girls move to the smiley face. If it is unfriendly, girls move to the sad face. Finally, allow each scouts to share a statement with their troop.
- Friendly and unfriendly charades – let the girls write down different situations where they could be friendly. Then have the girls act out the situation two times. One time they should purposely try to be unfriendly. Follow that with the girls acting the same situation by showing the friendly solution.
Ending the Daisy Girl Scout Friendly and Helpful Meeting
We loved for our scouts to practice the skill outside of our meetings too. We had our girls write down 3 ways that they were friendly and helpful before our next meeting. Then each girl could share one example of being friendly and helpful at our next meeting when they receive their yellow petal. Such a great review of the skill and gives you the opportunity to reward each girl as you hand out the petals individually.
There are so many ways to have your girls record their practice throughout the week. For example give each girl a special small notebook to record their examples. Another example includes having the scouts write it on a Sunny piece of paper (yellow paper or a paper with a picture of Sunny) to keep in a folder. You could also make a small foldable book to keep track. At the end of their daisy year and earning all their petals, each scout has a nice reminder of all the work that they have done.
Now that you’ve met the Daisy friendly and helpful petal requirements, which petal will you work on next? Please be sure to check out our other Girl Scout Daisy petal posts to learn how to earn Daisy petals. If you liked these activities, we offer a similar guide for each of the Daisy Girl Scout petals to assist you as your troops leader on their journey to earn all the petals.
Have your girls earned the Friendly and Helpful Daisy Girl Scout petal? If so, we’d love to hear about your ideas for and how it went for your troops. If you tried any of these activities, let us know how they went for your girls and what your girls thought.
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