Considerate and Caring – Zinni’s Petal Ideas

Daisy considerate and caring begins the third trait in the Girl Scout Law. This is Zinni’s line of the law and matches the light green petal. Many of our girls did not know the word considerate before beginning work on this petal but they did know caring. Asking 5 and 6 year-olds to think from other people’s points of view is definitely a skill they will need some support. Even my juniors still need a refresher on this from time to time. However, with a little guidance, they begin to understand. We dive into how to earn the girl scout considerate and caring Daisy petal.

As you plan for your meetings, keep in mind that the meetings should be girl led as much as possible. While the girl’s Daisy binder always offers a few choices for the girls, we found that offering 4 – 6 different ideas and letting the girls pick the ones they wanted to try really motivated our Daisies, while keeping the meeting girl led. Our agenda below follows the Daisy petal requirements to make earning this petal easy and quick. We included 10 different considerate and caring daisy petal activities to help you keep your meeting girl-led.

Daisy Considerate and Caring Activities

Our sample agenda below will assist you with planning the Daisy Girl Scout meeting on Zinni’s petal – considerate and caring. We suggest to take a peek at the next petal you plan to earn while planning out this petal. Why? Because you can pick 3 – 4 activities that you want to try and let your girls pick the one or two they would like to do. Providing choices helps to keep our Daisy meetings more girl-led throughout the year. Be sure to take a peek at our post about Tula’s petal – courageous and strong.

Save a few minutes at the end of each meeting to preview the next petal you will work on together. Allow the scouts time to discuss the activity choices you present to determine which they would like to try. We found bringing in pictures was super helpful and gave the girls a focus and way to sort out the activities. They would move the pictures around and create a pile of ones they like and ones they don’t. 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

You probably have a pretty good scout meeting place set up by now, but just in case we suggest taking a read through our post on Setting up your Room. This post describes specifics about having a place to greet scouts and parents, where to set up the gathering activity in relation to your communication table and so much more.

We found that having a similar gathering activity each week helped our Daisies know just what to do as soon as they arrived. We loved the flower coloring pages from makingfriends.com. Each of our Daisy Girl Scout guides includes a link to the making flower coloring page from makingfriends. We highly suggest printing them off all at once to save yourself time later.

By this time our scouts could come in, get the stack of color pages, set out the coloring supplies and get the meeting started without us. This gave them time to chat, while we were able to talk with the parents. This is extra important as cookie season approaches as parents have lots of questions and we need to communicate lots of information. Keep reading to learn how to earn the considerate and caring daisy petal below.

Zinni’s Story Girl Scouts

Storytime was always paired with snack time for our girls. The girls definitely got to practice being considerate and caring as they passed out their snack, shared, and used manners. After, they even cleaned up! With the story, feel free to let the girls choose how they want to listen to the story: have a leader read it, take turns reading the story, ask a special volunteer (family member) to read the story, or watch it on YouTube. Such a great way to keep the meetings girl led.

We loved Zinni’s story. We gave each of the girls a little bell. Then, they could ring anytime the characters were not being very considerate of their friends. This was great at helping the scouts see what being considerate does not look like. This is a skill they are way better at picking up on then being considerate. Moreover, it added a little fun to the story to keep them engaged and listening.

Step 2: Come up with Ideas to be like Zinni

Our girls love to talk, ALL AT THE SAME TIME. We found with brainstorming ideas, it was easier for the scouts to share in small groups while all having a way to share ideas. For this, we had a bunch of left over paper that we cut up into rectangles. The girls could all have some of the pieces of paper to write ideas on but each idea only needed to be written down once. The girls could share as they wrote, share after everyone wrote down ideas, or share as one girl wrote. This let the girls lead this activity as they brainstormed and kept more girls engaged.

What a great way to use resources wisely by not letting scraps go to waste too. So many times you have bits of paper left over after crafts and nothing to do with the paper. Using these scraps for brainstorm comes in handy so much in Girl Scouts.

Then you can bring all the scouts back together and each group can share 2 – 3 ideas with the entire group. You could even assign one girl to record these on a large piece of butcher block paper or a whiteboard. Now your scouts have a visual too.

Considerate and Caring Ideas

Helping Others for Zinni’s Petal

1. Be considerate by planning how to fairly share the snacks with the girls at your meeting. Our girls were pretty good at this, so throw in an extra of something or one less of another item. This can be a lot of fun watching the girls figure out what to do. And if you happen to give them one less, have an extra just in case. No one wants tears at a Girl Scout meeting.
2. Share supplies as you draw. Every 5 minutes ring a bell and give the scouts a few minutes to share their supplies before continuing drawing. You could easily pair this with one of the crafts or creating cards activities below.
3. Join a service project – Toys for Tots (October – December), food pantry donations (October and November are high collection times), donate to a local animal shelter (any time), partner with a local college’s women’s center or a family services location nearby. Hospitals and senior centers also have some great year round volunteering opportunities.

Zinni’s Petal Creating Cards

1. Create Thank You cards to hand out to teachers, parents, bus drivers, and other adults in the scouts’ lives.
2. Create Thank You cards to send to overseas troops serving our country. If you are looking for a service project, you can tie this with creating care packages to send as well.
3. If any countries that have Girl Scouts or Girl Guides have been hit by a natural disaster or other dangers, have the girls write sympathy cards to send to their fellow girl scout sisters around the world.
4. Create sympathy or get well cards to deliver to a local hospital with a children’s center.
5. Create cards to deliver to the local nursing or retirement homes in the area.

Considerate and Caring Craft Ideas

1. Cupcake Considerate Daisy – using cupcake liners, have the girls cut small lines on edges to the middle to turn it into a flower. Next, glue “A Daisy was Here” note into the middle of each one. As the scouts are considerate and caring in their home, neighborhood, or school, they leave a Daisy flower behind to let others know. (A great way to help build up scouts in the neighborhood when cookie selling comes).
2. Create Zinni flower – cut out various size green ovals from card stock or note cards. Then have the scouts glue the largest ovals to make a flower shape. After that, glue the medium sized ovals on top in a flower shape. Similarly, repeat with each size smaller oval. Try to have 5 – 6 different sized ovals. Finally, add a green pipe cleaner for the stem and some darker green leaves.

Ending the Daisy Girl Scout Considerate and Caring Meeting

Extend the learning by asking the scouts to practice being considerate and caring during the time before you meet again. We preferred to give our scouts something to record their practice. First, we gave our girls a flower Zinni page with 3 lines for the girls to write down different ways that they were considerate and caring outside of the meetings. However, you could make a foldable book, have the scouts write their practice in a little notebook, or even use a special green paper.

Then, when handing out the green petals, the girls could share one way that they were considerate and caring this week. Such a great way to really drive the learning home and provide all the girls with so many different ways to practice being considerate and caring!

Girl Scout Leader Tips

We are going add some girl scout tips on storing extra supplies and helping catch girls up below.

Storing Extra Craft Supplies

Now that you’ve been the Daisy troop leader for a bit, you’ve probably accumulated lots of crafting materials. All these left over crafting supplies can begin to pile up. We are going to share a few tips to not waste these supplies.

1. Store scraps of paper in a hanging file folder next to the full sheets of paper. This makes it easy to find the color you need and keeps the scraps contained.
2. Keep a box of all your extra stickers or foam craft stickers for future crafts. This keeps them all in one place and easy to use later.
3. Purchase a Tupperware container to put all your paints and paint brushes. Daisy Girl Scouts love to paint so it’s always good to keep some on hand.
4. Save all beads and gems for future crafts.
5. SWAPs are a great place to use up extra crafting materials. The best part of SWAPs is that they can all look a little different because you are trading these with other troops. So you can easily use up extra beads, gems, pipe cleaners, stickers, or any other craft materials you have on hand.
6. When you find that you have too much, donate to another Girl Scout troop in your service unit or council. Most Girl Scout leader meetings offer an opportunity to trade or donate extra crafting supplies.

Girls Missing Petal Earning Meetings

Sometimes you will have a scout miss a meeting, but she will still want to earn the petal. This is something that you can help families work on independently.

1. Send a copy of the meeting agenda to the parents with the most-do activities highlighted. If your girls don’t have their own Daisy Handbook, be sure to send a link for the story too.
2. Many Girl Scout Daisy activities can count towards other petals. Check your older agendas to see which activities the scout might have completed that could count for both petals.
3. Plan to include an activity in a future meeting to cover both that meeting’s petal and the one that was missed.
4. Host a make up day for petal work when you have a few girls who missed a meeting. You could even let your other girls run the activities so you can cover more than one petal at a time.

Now that you’ve met the Daisy considerate and caring 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 troop’s leader on their journey to earn all the petals. We encourage you to take a peek through each one.

Have your girls earned the Considerate and Caring 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.

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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