Make the World a Better Place – Rosie’s Petal Ideas

This is the ninth line in the Girl Scout Law, make the world a better place. This is such a great petal to work on because it helps your kindergarten and first grade girls see that they can indeed help to bring some sunshine into the world. Rosie’s story matches the light pink petal. Our agenda below follows the Daisy petal requirements to make earning this petal easy and quick.

Rosie’s petal is a great petal to add into a Daisy journey, since this petal can lead to a take action project. A Girl Scout journey is usually a multiple day experience for your scouts, ending with a take action project of their choosing. We explained Take Action Projects in Clover’s petal post on using resources wisely and we will explore Daisy Girl Scout journeys in our leader tips below. We dive into how to earn the make the world a better place daisy petal below. Our agenda below follows the Daisy petal requirements to make earning this petal easy and quick.

Daisy Petal Make the World a Better Place Activities

Our sample agenda below is packed with ideas to help Girl Scout leaders when planning their Daisy meeting on Rosie’s petal – make the world a better place. While planning for this petal, take a peek at the next petal you plan to work towards with your troop. Why? This allows you to provide your scouts some choices so that you can keep your Daisy Girl Scout meetings girl-led.

Feel free to view our collection of ideas for meeting. For easy reference, the next petal in our series is Vi’s petal – be a sister to every Girl Scout. Head on over and pick out 3 – 4 activities to present to your scouts so they can decide on which 1 or 2 activities they would like to try.

At the end of each Daisy Girl Scout meeting, we would preview our next petal. In just a few minutes, leaders can introduce the next petal and some wonderful activities to work towards the petal. If your scouts have some other ideas, that’s awesome too! Give your girls the floor and let them pick out the activities they want to try. In addition, we have found that bringing photos of each activity really helped our girls to sort the activities quickly. Then we would leave the meeting with the pictures they want to try. This made it really easy to recruit parents even before the meeting ended.

Before you dismiss the girls, ask parents for help. For example, families can volunteer to set up trips, contact experts, or even bring in supplies. Be sure to snap a picture of your list so you don’t forget. We always have families texting or e-mailing asking us to remind them which item they signed up to bring.

Gathering Activity

We continued our flower coloring page and by now the girls were very independent in starting the meetings. They could pass out the papers, get the coloring supplies out and get to work. Meanwhile, we could talk with parents, close out cookies and get ready for the meeting.

If you are still working on your room set up for ease and flow of your meeting, be sure to head over to 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. Keep reading to earn the Daisy petal make the world a better place quickly.

Rosie’s Story Girl Scouts

This is a really cute story about taking a trip to a beach. What a fun time to talk with your troop about things to pack for a trip to the beach. Moreover, this could be a fun meeting to actually host at a local beach. Not only would your girls have a blast, but a change of scenery is always nice. If you go to the beach, your girls would need to put their list into practice right away.

In addition, the flower friends also speak with some police officers. Therefore, you could always pair this with talking to police officers or talking about how police officers are trusted adults. Maybe your police officers would be willing to share how they make the world a better place both professionally and personally.

Finally, the flower friends need to throw away their trash. They learn about bringing less trash on their trip to the beach. Be sure to talk with your girls about any items they could change from their list to bring in less trash. Could we use reusable containers instead of paper or plastic bags? What about an alternative to plastic water bottles and paper cups?

Step 2: Act out the story with your Daisy friends

Try to have a character for each girl to play, but definitely include some characters with no lines for your girls who are a little shy. First, we made quick masks for each of the flower friends – just glue the flower friend coloring pages to paper plates. Then we made the two stork police officers masks again on paper plates. Next, tie a little yarn to make a necklace and super easy costumes. This should give you up to 12 different characters.

If you have less girls, leave out some of the flower friends – you really just need Rosie, Mari, Vi, Sunny and at least 1 stork officer. Hopefully you have at least 5 girls in your troop, but if not, no worries. You can always ask a leader or family member to play one of the characters. Or you may be able to have a girl play two.

If you have more than 12 girls, you can always add a few extra beach visitors who don’t know what to do with their trash or who leave their trash on the beach. Additionally, if you have a couple of really silly daisies, you could always have 1 or 2 play the trash can. And of course, you could even have a group of girls play a Brownie Girl Scout troop who comes in to help the flower friends. This is especially fun if your girls are getting ready to bridge up to Brownies.

Daisy Petal Make the World a Better Place Ideas

1. Host a park or beach clean up.
2. Make a poster showing ways to bring in less trash. Afterwards, share with families or another group.
3. Create “Make the World a Better Place” cupcake daisy flowers. Cut from the outside to the inside circle on cupcake liners to create flowers. Next, glue “Daisies make the world a better place” in the center of the cupcake flowers. Encourage the girls to spend the next week or two leaving these flowers behind whenever they do something to help others.
4. Plan a game day at a local nursing or retirement home.
5. Make fun cards or bake something fun to deliver to a nursing home, hospital for nurses, or even the police station.
6. Create Rosie flower – Get 4 red squares (4in x 4in). Begin by folding each square in half lengthwise. Then fold in half the opposite direction, and finally in half diagonally. After that cut a rounded edge at the top and a the bottom corner off. Open the 4 flowers. Remove 1 petal from one flower, 2 petals from a different flower, 3 petals from the third flower (keep these), and cut the 4th flower in half. Glue the two end petals on each of the 7 flowers, then stack inside each other. Finally, add a green pipe cleaner.
7. Make a special gift for their teacher – a homemade card paired with a flower potted by the daisies.
8. Host a food or clothing drive to donate to a local shelter or food pantry.
9. Create a compliment page for each girl within your troop. The girls can share things they love about each other.
10. Offer to help a new daisy troop get started or teach more girls about girl scouts.

Ending the Daisy Girl Scout Make the World a Better Place Meeting

We continued our pattern of giving the girls a Rosie page with 3 lines to write down different ways that they helped make the world a better place. To earn the light pink petal, each scout would share one way they were able to help make the world a better place. And of course, our friendship squeeze and Make New Friends song.

Girl Scout Leader Tips

For this tip, we are going to focus on Girl Scout journeys. As you are most likely getting ready to complete the last Girl Scout Daisy petal, you’ll need ideas for future meetings. Exploring the Daisy Girl Scout journeys is a great way to extend your year. In addition, if you’ve gotten any new troops, you can incorporate a missed petal into most journeys.

What are Girl Scout Journeys?

Girl Scout journeys are an in-depth look into a specific topic that ends with a take action project planned by your troop. A take action project aims to make the world a better place, just like Rosie. Usually journeys are multiple meetings of learning about a topic, identifying a problem, creating a sustainable solution, and putting that plan into action. However, many leaders also like to host a Girl Scout journey as a day trip or even overnight, lock in style. There is no right or wrong plan.

Types of Girl Scout Journeys

The names for the journeys change with each level of Girl Scouts, however, the basic topics stay the same. We will introduce the Daisy Journeys below, but it’s good to know that the topics continue to build throughout Girl Scouts.

1. It’s Your World – Change It! – looks at developing leadership advocacy skills. The Daisy Journey is called Welcome to the Daisy Flower Garden. This journey explores the world of gardening while building your girls leadership skills.
2. It’s Your Planet – Love It! – looks at current environmental issues and how the scouts can make a difference. The Daisy Journey is called Between Earth and Sky. Daisy Girl Scouts learn about how to keep the world healthy.
3. Its Your Story – Tell It! – explores girls’ interpersonal and intrapersonal skills with a peek into boosting self-esteem too. The Daisy Journey is called 3 Cheers for Animals. This journey focus on learning what animals need and how to take care of them.
4. Think Like an Engineer – helps the girls to explore the world of engineering. There is not yet a special name for each level, instead they focus around the take action project.
5. Think Like a Programmer – dives into programming, at a Daisy appropriate level. There is not yet a special name for each level, instead they focus around the take action project.
6. Think Like a Citizen Scientist – lets the girls practice their observation and data collection skills by helping other citizen scientists around the globe. There is not yet a special name for each level, instead they focus around the take action project.
7. Outdoor – gets your girls to explore the wonderful outdoor world around them to become environmental stewards. There is not yet a special name for each level, instead they focus around the camping badge at each level.

How do Girls Earn a Girl Scout Journey?

Each journey is broken down into awards that the girls will earn. Once they earn all the awards for a specific journey, they have completed the journey.

The Change It, Love It, and Tell It journeys are divided into three awards. One award usually involves planning out their take action project, one is for completing the take action project, and one award is learning about the journey specific topic.

On the other hand, The Think Like a Journey are divided into two different awards. These include a learning award and a take action award.

Finally, The Outdoor journey focus on earning specific badges at each levels. For Daisy Girl Scouts, there are 2 badges to earn and the take action award. Each other level includes 3 badges plus the take action award.

How to Earn Specific Daisy Girl Scout Journeys

Below are the 7 different Daisy Girl Scout journeys and the awards that your daisy scouts earn to complete the journey. Included are the Daisy petals that could be reviewed or earned with the Daisy Girl Scout journey to assist leaders with helping new girls earn their Daisy petals or scouts who missed a meeting earn the missing petal.

Between Earth and Sky

1. Blue Bucket Award – scouts explore their own and others’ feelings while resolving conflicts, negotiating, and being considerate to others. Pairs nicely with considerate and caring petal.
2. Firefly Award – scouts learn about their own skills and those of their Daisy scout sisters, then teach others these skills. Pairs nicely with friendly and helpful petal, be a sister to every Girl Scout petal, or courageous and strong petal.
3. Clover Award – scouts complete their take action project to protect a national treasure. Pairs nicely with make the world a better place.

Think Like an Engineer

1. Think Like an Engineer Award – scouts learn and practice what engineers do. Pairs nicely with board game design challenge badge, roller coaster design challenge badge, and model car design challenge badge.
2. Take Action Award – scouts complete their take action project. Pairs nicely with make the world a better place, use resources wisely, or be a sister to every Girl Scout.

Think Like a Citizen Scientist

1. Think Like a Citizen Scientist Award – scouts practice the scientific method and take part in a citizen scientist project to protect our environment. Pairs nicely with good neighbor badge.
2. Take Action Award – scouts complete their take action project. Pairs nicely with make the world a better place, use resources wisely, or be a sister to every Girl Scout.

How Long Do Girl Scout Journeys Take to Complete?

Most Girl Scout Journeys are broken down into 6 meetings, some are shorter while others are longer. However, some journeys are as short as 5 meetings, while others can take up to 10 meetings. The part that takes the longest is planning out the Take Action project. For instance, your scouts will need time to brainstorm a project, plan out their project, and then put it into action.

However, many troops like to complete journeys in a shorter time frame. You can successfully complete a journey in a day, overnight, or weekend. The most difficult part will be planning out the take action project. Your troop could always complete the journey quicker and focus on earning the take action project over the next few meetings. Or your troop could plan out your take action project before the journey and then complete the journey on the day of the project.

Why Journeys?

We love Girl Scout journeys because your scouts get to explore something more in-depth. Moreover they get to practice the Girl Scout law and Girl Scout promise with each journey. These experiences let your girls practice being a leader, take on leadership roles, learn more about themselves and others, and explore their world learning how to take care of our Earth.

Journeys give your scouts the opportunity to practice take action projects before becoming a Girl Scout Junior and working on their Bronze Award. In addition, Take Action projects are part of Girl Scout Silver Award and Girl Scout Gold Award experiences too.

Additionally, if your Daisy Girl Scouts complete 3 journeys, they will earn their Daisy Girl Scout Summit Award pin to display proudly on their vest. This is an award that girls can earn at each level of Girl Scouts.

Connect with Us for More Great Girl Scout Tips

Now that you’ve met the Daisy make the world a better place 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 Make the World a Better Place 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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