Courageous and Strong – Tula’s Petal Ideas

Daisy courageous and strong begins the fourth trait in the Girl Scout Law that our Daisy scouts learn. This is Tula’s line of the law and matches the red petal. This petal is a little different for the girls as they see strong in the physical sense. However, we needed to help them to view strong in a few different ways and also to understand the meaning of courageous. We dive into how to be courageous and strong below so you can help your girls.

As you plan for your girl scout daisy petal courageous and strong meeting, 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’ve included 10 different courageous and strong Daisy petal activities to help you keep your meetings girl-led.

Daisy Courageous and Strong Activities

View the sample agenda below for ideas when planning the Daisy Girl Scout meeting on Tula’s petal – courageous and strong. As you plan for this petal, be sure to take a peek at the next petal you plan to earn. Why? So that you can pick out 3 – 4 activities that you might want to try and present these to your girls to let them 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 Mari’s petal – responsible for what I say and do.

We love to save a few minutes at the end of each meeting to preview the next petal you will work on together. Present the different activity choices that you like from the list below. Then allow your girls time to determine which one they would like to try. Bringing in pictures can be super helpful here. The scouts can sort the pictures into a group of ones that they like and those that they don’t. This lets you plan your next meeting based on the girls’ recommendations and even reach out to families to help in the planning.

Gathering Activity

A gathering activity for your meeting is more successful with a well designed meeting space. Check out our post, if you are still looking for ways to successfully Set up your Room so your meeting runs more smoothly. The post dives into the specifics on the areas of your room and where to place them.

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 petal guides includes the link for the flower coloring page for the specific petal. We highly suggest printing them off all at once to save yourself time throughout the year.

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.

Tula’s Story Girl Scouts

Storytime was always paired with snack time for our girls. 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. You may even consider letting the girls take turns reading the story. Such a great way to keep the meetings girl led.

We loved Tula’s story. We asked the girls to stand up for this story. Every time the story mentioned hopscotch, we had the girls hop. Next, when there was teasing, we had the girls put up their hand and say “Stop.” Finally, for kickball, the girls pretended to kick a ball. This just added a little fun to the story to keep them engaged and listening.

Step 2: Make a Gallery Celebrating Women who are Courageous and Strong

After reading the story, most of our girls were able to think of others who have been courageous and strong. Many times it was a story about themselves, but some had stories about a friend, family member or another trusted adult. We gave the girls time to share and then draw someone who they believe is courageous and strong. By sharing first, the girls were able to help their sisters come up with ideas as they listened.

Be sure to take a few moments to share how the characters are strong in ways outside of physical strength. Standing up for a friend and helping others takes strength too. Doing the right thing even though your friends or classmates might make fun of you takes incredible strength. Also, spend a few minutes sharing how these people are courageous too. Trying new things and taking risks takes a lot of courage. Our girls needed a little help to see internal courage and strength.

Courageous and Strong Activities

Group Activities

1. Ask a firefighter or police officer to talk with your group about being courageous and strong. Most girls will recognize their bravery and strength, but be sure to have the firefighter or officer share their internal courage too.
2. New food taste test. It takes courage to try something new. Firstly, ask each girl to bring in a food that her family enjoys but others may have never tried. Secondly, let the girls all sample the different foods. Be sure to discuss what to do if you try something and don’t like it.
3. Tie in with selling cookies. The girls will need to be courageous and strong to ask others if they would like to buy cookies as well as when they accept someone telling them, “No thanks.” Just approaching a stranger takes bravery.
4. Girl led obstacle course. Let the girls set up a simple obstacle course. We used tables to crawl under, coats to walk around, and even shoes to hop over. Then have the girls try the obstacle course blindfolded (or just closing their eyes). Next, their girl scout sisters can help lead them through the short obstacle course. This trust in their sisters is a true testament to their courage.
5. Try a new activity together as a group. Our girls loved Christmas Caroling right around the holidays. We also tried out Archery which was a big hit.
6. Have each of the girls take turns teaching their sisters something new such as how to do a cartwheel or a special handclap or song.

Craft activities

1. Super Hero cuffs – we made these out of a toilet paper roll. We cut one toilet paper roll in half for each girl and let them decorate as they wished. Then they could wear them around their wrists to remind us to show our courage and strength.
2. Create Tula flowers using red tissue paper and green pipe cleaners. Begin by cutting out 8 tulip petal shapes from the tissue paper. Next, tape 4 petals together to make a tight inside flower. After that, surround the insider flower with the other 4 tissue paper petals. If the girls need a little base, use one cup of an egg carton to tape the petals too.
3. Draw a picture of an animal that is courageous and strong and share why with your troop.
4. Create sympathy or get well cards to deliver to a local hospital with a children’s center to encourage the children to be courageous and strong. Finally, add some bubbles or playdoh as an extra for the children.

Ending the Daisy Girl Scout Courageous and Strong Meeting

Extend the learning by asking the scouts to practice being courageous and strong during the time before you meet again. We gave our girls a flower Tula page with 3 lines for the girls to write down different ways that they were courageous and strong outside of the meetings. Then, when handing out the red petals, the girls could share one way that they were courageous and strong. Such a great way to really drive the learning home and provide all the girls with so many different ways to practice being courageous and strong!

Girl Scout Leader Tips

See our extra tips on encouraging girls to come prepared to meetings and communicating with parents.

Encouraging Scouts to Come Prepared

Now that you’ve been a Daisy troop leader for a bit, you’ve probably noticed that some scouts come to meetings without their necessary supplies. We are going to share some tips for encouraging your girls to be as prepared as possible, but do remember they are only 5 – 7 years old.

1. Wear your own Girl Scout Uniform to meetings. This will encourage your scouts to dress the part too.
2. Take a special picture of all girls in uniform each meeting. Tell your girls that the service unit loves pictures of girls in uniform. If a girl forgets her uniform, remind her she can be in the picture next meeting.
3. Offer girls a raffle ticket for a monthly drawing for every scout in uniform. The monthly winner wins the opportunity to be the leader’s assistance for the next month.
4. Send out an e-mail to parents to remind them of the supplies the scouts need the Saturday evening or Sunday morning before your meeting. Then, parents can help scouts pack up their bags.
5. Create a tote bag for each girl to use to hold and carry their Girl Scout materials. This is an activity in Mari’s petal meeting.
6. Add a list to your reminder note of things the girls need for their next meeting.
7. Create a laminated list of supplies to safety pin to girls smocks or vests.

Communicating with Parents

With the busy times of the Girl Scout year approaching and lots of parents with questions, you will want an easy way to communicate with your Girl Scout families.

1. Ask your families the best mode of communication and then try that way to contact them. You may find your group has one preferred method or that your families are just as varied as they ways the like communication.
2. Have each parent send you their best contact information and turn this into a form with necessary information. Be sure to ask for address, phone number, e-mail address, and best time to contact.
3. Create an e-mail group so that you can quickly send out e-mail communications to families.
4. Form a text message group to have quick communication with your scouting families.
5. You may even find that families prefer a specific type of social media to form a group. For example, you could have a Facebook group or even a form a group on Google.
6. Create a website or other online space for your families to easily reference scouting information. We have loved Shutterfly share sites because we can post a calendar, information, forms, and photos to share with families. Our families can also post additional information too.
7. Reminder notes go a long way too! Have one available at the start of each meeting for your families so they can input important dates and information into their personal devices during the meeting or at a convenient time for them.

Planning Your Next Meeting

Now that you’ve met the Daisy courageous and strong 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 leaders on their journey to earn all the petals. We encourage you to take a peek through each one as you are planning out your year.

Have your girls earned the Courageous and Strong 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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