A World of Girls Brownie Journey for Girl Scout Brownies
The Brownie Girl Scout A World of Girls Brownie Journey is part of the It’s Your Story – Tell It! Series. The It’s Your Story – Tell It! Series includes the Daisy Journey 5 Flowers, 4 Stories, 3 Cheers for Animals and the Brownie Journey A World of Girls. It also extends to the Cadette Journey MEdia, the Seniors Journey Mission:Sisterhood!, and the Ambassador’s Journey BLISS: Live it! Give it! You do not need to complete each journey in the set, but the journey concepts do build and go more in depth with each progressive level. The It’s Your Story – Tell It! journey series focuses on developing a strong sense of self and promote well-being in all areas of development.
The A World of Girls Brownie Journey specifically focuses on finding clues in stories to make the world a better place and using creativity to tell their story. Your scouts will begin to notice how others change the world, recognize that they can change things for the better, and teach others as they inspire their audience all while exploring their place in the wide world of girls.
Key Concepts and Vocabulary
While your scouts explore the A World of Girls Brownie Girl Scout Journey, there are a few key concepts and vocabulary that can be beneficial to explore. Through this journey, your scouts will discover how others change the world, learn how they can make the world a better place, and how they can impact their community and world.
What are the Goals of This Journey?
Each Girl Scout journey has key takeaways for the girls who complete it. The A World of Girls journey is no different. This journey has 6 main goals for the girls to explore and discover amazing possibilities. The first two goals focus on the Hear a Story award, the next two goals are the main focus of the Change a Story award, and the final two goals are the focus of the Tell a Story award.
1) The Brownies explore how stories and games connect them to their world and determine how they belong.
2) Your girls will see how they belong to many different circles, or “worlds,” while exploring stories about influential women and girls.
3) Brownies explore how they can create new stories through their actions.
4) The Brownies determine different ways they can benefit their community and pick one.
5) Your girls tell the story of the change that they made to benefit their community to inspire their audience to keep the change going.
6) Your girls will take action to benefit their community
What is Change?
The Girl Scout A World of Girls Journey uses the definition of change that means to replace with something else, especially to make something better.
It is important to help the girls to see that many stories show how others make the world a better place and that within a story are clues for ways that we can make the world better. Taking this one step farther, you will need to help the girls realize that they have power to change the world for the better.
What are Circles or Worlds of Girls?
Circles or Worlds of Girls refers to different groups that girls can take part in. These might include athlete, musician, singer, mom, teacher, firefighter, student, dancer, artist, writer, painter, gymnast, bus rider, car rider, etc.
Brownie Girl Scouts will need assistance recognizing that they can belong to multiple groups and have many different roles. While their mom is a mom, she also has other roles in the community. Same goes for their teacher and their girl scout leaders too! Many of the skills that the girls use for one circle or world can also help them in another circle or world.
What is a Ceremony?
Girl Scouts defines a ceremony as a special way to celebrate an important event, experience, or feeling. For the A World of Girls Brownie Journey, your girl scouts will plan a ceremony to share the change that they made in their community and hopefully inspire others to continue their change. Your Brownie Scouts cared about an action enough to make a different and they should be excited to share their change to inspire others in a special ceremony.
The Brownie Girl Scouts should celebrate all they’ve learned and accomplished in their ceremony. This ceremony can be big or small; your girls decide who they will invite. The girls should plan out any presentations, activities, foods, and awards that they will give out. There really is no wrong answer as long as the girls are positive and inclusive.
Other Key Vocabulary
There are a few additional words that can help the scouts while learning on the A World of Girls journey.
Clues – a piece of evidence or information that helps her learn something
Community – a group of people living in the same general area, share a common background or interest, or have a common history or goal.
Inspire – help someone to feel the urge or ability to do or feel something specific.
Power – the ability to direct or influence others
Role – a specific job or function performed by a person. Usually includes the social expected behavior that a person in the specific job or function would complete.
Girl Scout Junior Journey Books and Materials
For each Girl Scout journey, leaders have the option to purchase two books: a leader’s guide for the specific journey and a girl’s handbook for the journey. We have found that purchasing one leader’s guide and one girl’s handbook is usually enough for our troop. Then we share the girl’s handbook throughout the meeting. On the other hand, many troops prefer for each scout to have their own journey handbook. Depending on your available funds or parent’s willingness to pay for materials, your troop can decide the best way to use their funds.
However, leaders also have the ability to access the journeys and badges in the Girl Scout Volunteer Toolkit, which is an amazing resource for leaders to access the material for free. Buying handbooks, badge guides, journey books, and badges can be very costly, so the Volunteer Toolkit is a great free resource. You’ll also want the A World of Girls Journey Award Set.
Other materials that you will want for this journey include
Me and My Girl Worlds – page 17 Your Brownie World in the girl’s handbook
Project Check Sheet – pages 66-67 in the leader’s guide
Stories you will share or girl’s handbook
handkerchief
globe or map
chalk or yarn
sheets of computer paper
2 sets of notecards for relays
Materials to make an obstacle course (we mostly used large items in the room)
large sheets of paper
Ads to review
quilt squares
paint
What are the Girl Scout Brownie A World of Girls Journey Requirements?
To earn the A World of Girls Girl Scout Brownie Journey, the girls will need to earn four different awards. The A World of Girls Brownie journey requirements can be met over a few different meetings or in just one day. We will present both methods below for leaders to choose the best way to meet the Girl Scout Brownie A World of Girls journey requirements for their troop.
While these awards do progress and build upon one another, you do not have to complete them in order. Yet, for our troop, we found earning the Hear a Story award before the Change a Story award, Tell a Story award, and finally the Better World for Girls! award worked well. As we progressed throughout the journey, we often circled back to the other awards as well.
Hear a Story Award Requirements
To earn the Hear a Story award, the scouts will work to discover clues in stories for how to better the world. Your brownies will need to find a clue in a story that represents a change they can make in their world.
Hear a Story Award Activities
Opening Activity – 5 minutes: Me and My Girl Worlds. Ask your Brownies to brainstorm different girl groups in which they are a member. This can include sports teams, clubs, classes, friend groups, family, etc. Your girls can brainstorm on a piece of paper or use page 17 – Your Brownie World, in the girl’s A World of Girls handbook.
Games Around the Globe – 15 minutes: Explore different ways that games are like stories by playing a game or two from around the world. Our Brownies really enjoyed playing games from around the world, so if you have the time, maybe add in a few extra games throughout your meetings to earn A World of Girls journey. Pairs well with the Brownie Making Games Badge and Brownie Making Friends Badge
Banyoka is an obstacle-course game from Zambia and Zaire and means the “snake.” The brownies split into two teams and sit in a line with their hands on the shoulders or around the waist of the girl in front of them. Then they move like a snake through an obstacle course and try to be the first team to finish.
Cencio Mollo is a circle game from Italy and means wet handkerchief. One brownie stands in the center of the circle with a handkerchief, she is it. The girl in the middle can go up to any other girl in the circle and say, “The Cencio Mollo has come for you.” The girl should respond back, “Let it come. I shall not cry, laugh or kiss it.” Then the girl who is it, tries to make the other girl laugh anyway she can. The only limitation is that she can only touch the other girl on the head or face with the handkerchief. If the girl doesn’t laugh, “it” moves on to a different girl in the circle. If she does laugh, she now becomes it.
Our Globe of Girls – 10 minutes: show the girls how they are connected to other people and places by showing them a map or globe. They may be connected to a country because they have family from the country or they visited the country. They may love the food or clothing from a specific country. Maybe they learned a few words or a game from a country. All of these are connections.
Read a Girl Story – 15 minutes: Read a story with a girl main character and record the different clues in the story of something one of the characters could use some help with. The girl’s handbook includes the story “Flying into Shali’s Desert Home” on pages 6 – 16, “Dancing with Chosita” on pages 18 – 26, and “Story Swapping with Lakti” on pages 28 – 37. Some of our favorite stories include “the dot” by Peter Reynolds, “Thank you, Mr. Falker” by Patricia Polacco, “Dancing in the Wings” by Debbie Allen, “Lilly’s Purple Plastic Purse” by Kevin Henkes, and “My Name is Not Isabella” by Jennifer Fosberry. Pairs well with the Brownie Letterboxer Badge as an introduction
Overlapping Worlds – 15 minutes: Make large overlapping circles on the floor. If you are outside, try chalk. If inside, use jump ropes or yarn. Have the girls identify each circle by a group they are a member in. Some examples include: stand in this circle if you play soccer, stand in this circle if you like music, stand in this circle if you take an art class, etc. The circles need to overlap because the girls will belong to more than one group. At the end, make a large circle around all the girls and ask what this circle stands for. The girls should say, Girl Scout Brownies. Pairs well with the Brownie Making Friends Badge
Total Time: 1 hour
To Save Time on the Hear a Story Award
If you are trying to complete the Hear a Story Brownie Journey in one day, you may consider modifying this plan a little. Plan to play only one game with your Brownies.
You could also skip the Our Globe of Girls activity and shorten the Overlapping Worlds activity to only 5 – 10 minutes by combining it with the opening activity.
If you are really short on time, you could read a girl story and skip the other activities.
Change a Story Award Requirements
When earning the Change a Story award, the scouts will reach out to make a change in their world. The girls will create new stories through their actions and begin to understand the power they have to change the world for the better. This requirement focuses on planning and completing the Take Action Project to create a change to benefit their community.
Change a Story Award Activities
Opening Activity – 5 minutes: Brainstorm scenes from stories where girls faced a tough situation, solved a problem, or made the world a better place.
Role-Playing Positive Change – 15 minutes: Girls role-play an idea or two from their brainstorm of a character facing a tough situation, solving a problem or making the words a better place. Some ideas if your Brownies are stuck include showing kindness, showing respect, making someone feel special, thinking before acting, and being brave. Pairs well with the Brownie Making Games Badge
Two Story Relays – 20 minutes: You will need 5 – 10 minutes per relay. For the first relay, write out the girl scout law in phrases on notecards. You will need two sets. Phrases to use: On my honor, I will try, to serve, God, and, my, country, to help, people, at all, times, and to, live, by the, Girl Scout Law. One at a time, the girls will take a card, run to the other side of the room, place the card down, and run back. As the girls add cards down, they can move the cards around to build the Girl Scout Promise.
The second relay uses story words. Again you will need two sets for the two teams. For this relay, all the cards are on the other side of the room. A girl runs down, picks two cards and lays them on the floor or table and runs back. Then the next girl runs down and picks two more cards and runs back. Each girl gets to pick two cards and try to arrange the cards into a story. The relay continues until the girls have each had at least 2 turns or until one team has built a story.
Sample words: Once, upon, a, time, a, group, of, Brownies, found, an, old, watch, when, by, cabin, went, on, a, hike, made, met, new, friends, was, in, the, woods, they, asked, where, saw, deer, fox, waterfall, built, fort, finally, got, back, home, adventure, the trail, gave, it, to, the, woman, her, she, smiled, they, wearing, swam, in, pond, felt, good, at, the, end, of, the, day, ran, jumped, in, hat, shoes, purple, golden, cold, the, beautiful, mysterious, and.
Share a Story – 15 minutes: Read a story about making a positive change. The girl’s A World of Girls handbook includes the story “Dancing with Chosita” starting on page 18. Discuss with the girls how the characters in the story are giving and sharing and how this helps to make things better.
Saying How it Feels to Me – 20 minutes: Discuss with the Brownies what they do when they disagree with others. Then practice role playing a few different scenarios where the girls have to say something which others might disagree. Pairs well with the Brownie Making Friends Badge
Questions to Ask:
*When you and a friend want to do different things, what do you do?
*How does it feel to tell a friend that you don’t want to do what she wants to do?
*Can you still be friends with someone even when you don’t agree on everything? How so?
*How did the others react when you finally said something you thought they wouldn’t like?
*What kinds of feelings did you have while acting out these situations?
Scenarios:
You are tired of jumping rope and want to do something else in the park.
In the library, you don’t want to tell others that you have trouble reading.
You become sad when you hear about typhoons and hurricanes.
You would rather read about queens than play the monkey game, but you don’t wan to seem unfriendly.
You want to stop fishing and go back to the library, but you don’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings.
Choosing our Change – 20 minutes: Work with your Brownie Girl Scouts to choose their take action project for this journey. Which clues are about something that girls in our community face? Which clue is something you might like to change in our community? Why? Use pages 66 – 67 in the leader’s guidebook as a planner to plan out the change you will make, the steps your will take, and what the positive outcome will look like. Pairs well with the Brownie Inventor Badge
Questions to Consider:
- How different could the world be if people everywhere tried to change their communities for the better in some small way?
- If lots of people get involved in making a change, would each person’s effort have to be very big?
- What are some small things people can do that, all together, would make a big difference?
Carry It Out! – 30 minutes or more: Give your scouts time to make a plan for their take action project. This might involve talking to other people, gathering more information, deciding what needs to be created. Write down each step to accomplish your take action project. Some projects may be able to be completed today, others might need to take place another day. Pairs well with the Brownie Inventor Badge
Story Charades and the Power of Stories – 20 minutes or more: Ask the girls to work in small groups, partners, or individually to act out a scene from a favorite story, while the other girls guess which story the scene is from. Then brainstorm with the Brownies what we can learn about the character by looking at the things she does. Also ask, “Are there things in the story that you would like to change?”
Sun and Ice – 10 minutes: This is a game from Mexico and is a team variation of tag. Your Brownies will form two teams, with one team being “It.” If a player is tagged, she says “Ice” and cannot move. She remains frozen until a player from her team tags her and says “Sun.” After a few minutes, switch which team is “It.”
Carry out your Take Action Project – 1 hour or more: Actually make your Take Action Project a reality. Gather friends and family to complete the girls’ Take Action Project. Pairs well with the Brownie Pets Badge and Junior Scribe Badge
Total Time: 3 hour and 35 minutes (or longer, depending on your Take Action Project)
To Save Time on the Change a Story Award
When trying to complete the A World of Girls Brownie Girl Scout journey in a day, you may choose to shorten this part of the meeting. The opening activity is not required and could be eliminated. You could also skip the Two Story Relays, Saying how it feels to Me, Story Charades and the Power of Stories, and Sun and Ice, thus saving yourself 1 hour and 5 minutes.
You could also ask the scouts to complete steps for their Take Action Project at home prior to the meeting. This will let you begin the work prior to your meeting.
Another option is to plan your Take Action Project for another day. Complete the bulk of the journey in one day and then tackle the Take Action Project a little at each of your next meetings, with a final culmination of a Take Action Project in a month or two.
Tell a Story Award Requirements
The Tell a Story award requirements focus on sharing the take action project. The scouts will decide on a clue in their community that they care about changing and will help their community. Throughout this project, they will need to work as a team to plan and carry out their project for change to benefit their community.
Tell a Story Award Activities
Opening Activity – 10 minutes: Make a large poster where the girls can record all the things they want to happen as a result of their change.
Ads Among Us – 10 minutes: Place some ads on a table and let the girls look through the ads. Encourage them to find an ad that speaks to them in some way either positively or negatively. Then discuss with the girls how the ads made them feel. Do the stories of these ads seem real? Do they seem like something you would find in real life? Which parts of the ads seem to match your life and the lives of girls you know? Which parts of the ads seem like they don’t match your life? Do you think these parts are made up? Or are they not real in your life but might be for others?
Create your Own Ad- 20 minutes: Provide your Brownies with markers and paper to create their own ad. They can recreate one of the ads they looked at earlier or make a completely new ad. For girls needing some ideas, they could create an ad highlighting what is special about Girl Scouts or the girls in their troop or create an ad to encourage others to try a sport or read a specific book.
Planning to Tell Our Story of Change – 30 minutes or more: Work as a troop to determine the best audience for their Take Action Project. Who might be interested in the change we are creating? Who would want to get involved in this change too? Plan out your audience and location based on the size of your audience. Then plan how they will share their change. Some ideas include a skit, song, painting, photos, speech, etc. Be sure that they have time to make invitations, props, posters, or other materials. Pairs well with the Brownie Making Friends Badge and Brownie Inventor Badge
Total Time: 1 hour and 10 minutes (or longer, depending on your Take Action Project)
To Save Time on the Tell a Story Award
Ask the scouts to complete steps for sharing their Take Action Project at home prior to the meeting. This will let you begin the work prior to your meeting.
Another option is to plan your celebration for your Take Action Project on another day. Complete the bulk of the journey in one day and then tackle the Take Action Project sharing a little at each of your next meetings, with a final culmination of a Take Action Project in a month or two.
Better World for Girls! Award Requirements
The Better World for Girls! award requirements focus helping the Brownies to understand that they belong to a large and far-reaching world of girls. They will use their creativity to show what it means to be a part of this larger world and share their take action project with others.
Better World for Girls! Award Activities
Opening Activity – 10 minutes: A Special Piece of a Whole. Provide each scout a quilt square that they will use to tell the story of something they do well. Feel free to use fabric and fabric markers or paper to make your quilt. Some ideas include watercolor paints, soccer ball, books, musical instrument, etc. Then place all the squares together to form a Girl Scout Brownie Troop Quilt to show the whole story of your troop.
Pass It On – 10 minutes: People from all over the world tell stories and pass these stories on to others. Invite the girls to retell a story they have read with good expression and gestures. It’s okay if they change the story a little as this happens with stories told orally.
Painting Mixed Feelings – 15 minutes. Work with the girls to paint their feelings throughout this journey. How were they feeling in the beginning? How did they feel during the planning and Take Action Project? Did their feelings change when they shared their change with others? What are they feeling now that they are finished?
Planning a “Better World for Girls!” Celebration – 30 minutes or more: Invite the girls to plan a party to celebrate their journey and the completion of their Take Action Project. We often paired this with the sharing of their change to host only one celebration, but you could definitely have two! Who will they invite? Will they plan activities or games? Will there be food? How will they showcase their journey to their audience? Be sure to create invitations too. Pairs well with the Brownie Making Games Badge
A World of Girls Celebration – 30 minutes or more: Host your celebration.
Total Time: 1 hour and 35 minutes (or longer, depending on your Take Action Project)
To Save Better World for Girls! Award
You can skip the Pass It On and Painting Mixed Feelings activities to save 25 minutes. Plan your celebration to occur with your Tell our Story of Change so that you are planning only one celebration. The girls can share with the same audience the path of their journey and their feelings throughout the journey. You can also plan this to happen right after the Take Action Project to save even more time.
Another option is to plan your Take Action Project and celebration for another day. Complete the bulk of the journey in one day and then tackle the Take Action Project a little at each of your next meetings, with a final culmination of a Take Action Project in a month or two.
Take Action Project Ideas
Deciding on a Take Action Project can be tricky for the girl scouts. Brownie Girl Scouts are usually new to Take Action Project and may mix them up with a community service project. Remember, a Take Action Project should continue to give back to the community after the project has finished. We have included a list of some Take Action Project below to help with your brainstorming a change. Pairs well with Junior Digital Photography Badge and Junior Scribe Badge
For these take action projects below, we focused on a change that Brownie Girl Scouts could make in their community to help others.
1) Organize a “Reading Buddy Afternoon” or two at a local library or after school. Then teach others how to be a reading buddy.
2) Create a flyer with some simple fun exercises that families can do together, then host a “Family Fitness” event to share these exercises with others.
3) Create recipe cards with ideas for simple and healthy snacks that kids can make. Then host a “Healthy Food Fair” to invite other girls to try making the snacks and sample the healthy foods.
4) Create a poster of ways to volunteer with animals, then host a “Helping Animals Day” to create toys for animals and demonstrate ways to volunteer with animals.
5) Make a book about the importance of bees and butterflies, then plant a butterfly and bee garden.
6) Invite others to plant a vegetable garden and help them by planting seeds to transfer to their own vegetable garden.
7) Create a poster for the Leave No Trace Principles and then host a park clean up day to share the Leave No Trace Principles with others.
8) Make some simple STEM task cards and host a STEM night to share science, technology, engineering, and mathematics activities with others.
9) Create a First Aid Kit Checklist, then invite other families or Girl Scouts to come build their own first aid kit and learn to treat some minor injuries.
10) Create a Little Outdoor Library and invite others to donate books so everyone can always find something to read.
Celebration for the A World of Girls! Brownie Journey
While Girl Scout journeys are pretty open, they usually include ceremonies or celebrations throughout the journey. Your troop can decide how they want to celebrate their progress and completion of the journey. Some troops love to celebrate after earning each award, while others would rather have one big celebration after the completion of the entire journey. The choice is really up to your troop and your time restraints.
Same goes for the journey award badges. You can hand these out to the girls as they complete each step or have one ceremony where you hand out all three badges at the same time. Our girls love the instant recognition; however, we find that more badges are lost this way or never end up on their vests. So we have usually opted for certificates to show the progress after each step and presentation of badges at the end of the journey.
The most important part is to allow your girls the opportunity to plan the celebrations throughout the journey or the celebration at the end of the journey. By allowing the girls to plan the celebrations, they will take more ownership and enjoy them even more.
Girl Scout Brownie Badges That Pair with A World of Girls Brownie Journey
While you explore a Girl Scout Journey, there are badges that often pair well with each journey. Sometimes these badges are easier to pair than other times. We find it most helpful to pair badges when we have a month or two to complete a journey. When we are trying to complete a journey in a day, this is often much more difficult. However, our plan does help to meet at least a few requirements of the badges which Girl Scouts suggest pair best with this journey.
Brownie Letterboxer Badge
This is the perfect badge to complete prior to beginning A World of Girls Brownie Girl Scout journey. This badge helps to introduce looking for, using, and solving clues. We usually begin this badge with a scavenger hunt to figure out the journey we will begin. We write 5 clues to guide our Brownies to find the girl’s journey book we have hidden. We had the girls the first clue and then the girls find each of the other clues. Pairs well with the Brownie Making Games Badge
Clues
- A special book about (strong female character). We love to use one of the stories we will share during the journey.
- Search here to discover all the countries we know and love. Send the girls to the globe or map you will use.
- Many of use one of these to score points while playing this sport on a field (court). Send the girls to a ball from one of their favorite sports
- You’ll get a new one each month filled with articles about (subject of magazine), pictures, new products, and ads.
- When we plan our celebration, we will keep our food here until we are ready to eat. Place the journey book in the refrigerator for the girls to find.
Next, we ask our girls to practice solving some clues to prepare for our journey. We ask each of our girls to create a clue for the other girls to solve. Common clues include fill in the blank, word scrambles, and number codes.
Afterwards, we work with our girls to create or choose a special stamp for their letterboxing journey. Once we have our stamp, we practice finding a letterbox. You can use letterbox, geocache, or atlas to locate letterboxes near your community. This helps the girls get ready to search for clues in the stories you will share in the journey.
The last step is to make a letterbox. This could fit with the celebration or Tell a Story award. Your girls could get the letterbox with their props, then ask their audience to uncover their letterbox to learn more about their journey through A World of Girls.
Making Games Brownie Badge
This badge asks the girls to have fun with games. We love to begin with a scavenger hunt which we pair with the Brownie Letterboxer Badge and introducing our Brownie A World of Girls! journey.
We pair the mystery game with the Role-Playing Positive Change. The girls will role play a scene from a favorite story and the other girls will need to guess the story. You could add in the opportunity to ask yes and no questions to help the girls make good guesses.
During the A World of Girls! journey, Brownies will play a few games from around the world. This is a great time to ask the girls to change the rules of one of the games to make it their own or discuss how this new game is similar to games they have played in the past. We also love to add a party game to our celebration.
Finally, the last step involves inventing a whole new sport. We usually do this separate from the journey with a family field day, but you could always add this in by learning about sports from other countries as well.
Brownie Girl Scout Pets Badge
If your Take Action project will involve animals, this is the perfect badge to pair with A World of Girls! Brownie journey. Your girls will begin by playing pet bingo to learn more about caring for different types of pets. Common questions to try to answer include: How much does it cost to care for this pet? How much space does this pet need? How much food does this pet need? What kind of food does this pet eat? What kind of human contact does this pet like?
Your girls will want to speak with an expert about health issues for different kinds of pets as well as common reasons that owners decide not to keep a pet. Once they have this information, the girls can create feeding schedules or budgets for different types of pets to share with others.
Then as part of your Take Action Project, your girls can lead others through making toys for a pet and making a cozy sleeping space. You could also hold your Take Action Project at an animal rescue to learn how to clean a pet’s living space or muck out a stall.
Inventor Brownie Badge
The Inventor Badge is a great one to tie with A World of Girls! Brownie journey. Before you begin the journey, ask your girls to make up five new uses for a box or new ways to play with a toy to warm up their brains to solving problems.
As your Brownies plan their Take Action Project, they will be looking at a problem that faces their community. Have them begin by brainstorming a needs list or different problems that face girls in their community. Then brainstorm lots of different ways to solve the project as they are determining their Take Action Project. Once they have decided on a project, they will need to determine their solution and finally share their solution with others.
Keep in mind that their invention can be something they build but could also be educational sheets that they make to help others.
Girl Scout Brownie Making Friends Badge
This badge begins by asking the girls to make a friendly introduction. We usually challenge our girls to do this outside of Girl Scouts. We also challenge our girls to show a friend they care by making a new friend outside of Girl Scouts after the girls earn the Hear a Story award.
The A World of Girls! Brownie journey helps our Brownies to share favorite activities. This pairs well with the Overlapping Worlds where the girls share different worlds they are a member in. We also play a game that is usually new to all of our girls in Games Around the Globe.
Learning how to disagree is an important part of A World of Girls! Journey because the girls will have different opinions on the Take Action project, sharing their project and planning a celebration. Saying How This Feels to Me helps your girls learn it is okay to disagree and then the girls practice this while planning for their projects and celebrations.
Finally, the girls can practice friendship when they share their Take Action Project with others by inviting another Brownie troop to their sharing of their project.
How to Complete the Girl Scout Brownie A World of Girls Journey in a Day
Below we will include our Brownie Girl Scout Agenda for the A World of Girls! Journey in a Day. We found that a Saturday or Sunday morning through lunch or lunch and the afternoon worked best for a journey in a day. If your girls can handle a full day of Girl Scouts, you may plan to start early in the morning and continue through the afternoon to include the entire Take Action Project or additional badge work.
8:00 – 8:05am Me and My Girl Worlds
8:05 – 8:20am Games Around the Globe
8:20 – 8:30am Our Globe of Girls
8:30 – 8:45 am Read a Girl Story, Search for Clues
8:45 – 9:00am Overlapping Worlds
9:00 – 9:15am Role-Playing Positive Change
9:15 – 9:30am Snack and Share a Story
9:30 – 9:40am Ads Among Us
9:40 – 10:00am Saying How it Feels to Me
10:00 – 10:20am Choosing our Change
10:20 – 10:50am Carry It Out (Planning our Take Action Project)
10:50 – 11:20am Planning to Tell our Story of Change
11:20 – 12:00pm LUNCH and Planning a “Better World for Girls!” Celebration
12:00 – 4:00pm Take Action Project
3:50 – 4:00pm A Special Piece of the Whole to wrap up after your Take Action Project and Celebration
We’d Love to Connect with You
Hopefully you have found our Brownie A World of Girls! Journey plans help and your girls love them as much as ours did! Now that you’ve tackled one journey, which will you try next? Our girls love earning their Girl Scout Summit Pin at each level of Girl Scouts so they always complete three journeys.
We hope you loved our Agent of Change plans as much as our girls and the best part, the troop was excited to tackle another Junior Girl Scout Journey! They had so much fun that we planned a few more journey in a day agendas for our troop. Check out the Junior Girl Scout aMUSE Journey and Outdoor Junior Girl Scout Journey for more ideas.
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Hi, I’m Nicole.
Here at Creatingbutterflies we provide families with practical solutions to real life problems for everything parenting, scouting, dual language, and enjoying time outdoors. We are a family of 6 with 4 wonderful becoming bilingual children who loves scouting, camping, and hiking with their family. Mom is an educator and dad is a firefighter/paramedic.
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