Respect Myself and Others _ Gloria’s Petal Ideas

We are now ready for the sixth trait in the Girl Scout Law: daisy petal respect myself and others. This is Gloria’s story and matches the purple petal. By now, you have hopefully gotten into a good rhythm with your meetings and have a good rapport with your girls. As the girls get more comfortable together, they really do begin to become like sisters and bond throughout their experiences. Fortunately, Girl Scouts becomes a time that the girls really look forward to and enjoy as their highlight to their week.

Our girls were really well versed at respecting themselves in terms of personal hygiene and self-care. They also were able to give many ways to respect others by sharing about being kind and nice or helping others. However, our girls needed some guidance with healthy food choices as part of respecting yourself and positive self-talk and sharing compliments with others. Our agenda below follows the Daisy petal requirements to make earning this petal easy and quick.

Daisy Respect Myself and Others Activities

Our sample agenda below walks you through planning the Girl Scout Daisy meeting on Gloria’s Petal – respect myself and others. As you plan this petal for your girls, be sure to take a peek at the next petal you want to teach. Why? So that you can keep your Girl Scout Daisy meetings girl-led. You can view our choices and see which sound fun for your troop. Then you can present your scouts a few activities from which to choose the 1 – 2 they would like to try when earning the next petal. See Gerri’s petal – respect authority for more Girl Scout Daisy ideas.

At the end of each meeting, we preview our next petal with the Daisy Girl Scouts. Once your girls get the hang of this, it takes just a few minutes each meeting. However, these few minutes will make your planning so simple and allow you to recruit parent help. We print out a photo for each activity our girls can pick from for the next petal. Then our girls sort the pictures into love this and want to try it to no, thanks. Simply scoop up the pictures they want to try and limit these down to 1 or 2 activities.

Before you dismiss the girls, ask parents for help. There might be a family while to set up the martial arts class or purchase certain supplies. You may even want to ask the scouts to brainstorm the supplies they would like and have each family sign up for one. 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 with our coloring flower page that the girls were well able to get ready with little guidance from us. We absolutely loved this simple way for girls to begin the meeting and take the lead. Our girls could check the agenda to see which petal we were earning, if they forgot from last meeting. Then they found the folder marked with the petal name to get out the coloring sheets. So simple but effective.

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 learn how to easily earn the respect myself and others Daisy petal.

Gloria’s Story Girl Scouts

Before beginning Gloria’s story, we talked a little about manners with the girls. They came up with a great list of manners while eating and sharing with friends. Then we challenged our girls to practice their manners while eating snack and listening to Gloria’s story.

As this story is about a birthday party, we wanted to share a snack that would be great for a birthday party, yet healthy for respecting myself and others. For our snack, we served frozen banana ice cream with some fruit toppings. Super easy to make with a food processor or blender and definitely tastes like ice cream. Just freeze a few ripe bananas (maybe 1 per girl or so). Then add the banana to the blender or food processor, add a little milk or juice, and blend. Top with any special toppings.

And of course be sure to vary the way girls access the story. Feel free to let the girls take turns reading, invite parents to read, or even watch a YouTube video of the story. This is a great time to think about inviting a Brownie scout to read to your troop too. Your girls will need to work with one Brownie troop to bridge (or moving up) to the next level of Girl Scouts. Be sure to have your scouts prepare a few questions about Brownies to ask.

Step 2: Invite an older Girl Scout to talk to your group about ways to respect yourself and others

Some troops have older sisters or older Girl Scout friends, so it can be super easy to find a girl to help you out with this requirement. For those without an older girl scout connection, many times you have a parent who was once a Girl Scout. They count too! If you aren’t lucky there, you can always watch a short video on YouTube about respecting myself and others. For example, many different women and girls have uploaded videos to try out. Just be sure to watch the video before showing to the girls. And if all else fails, you (as the leader) are a Girl Scout too.

And if you happen to find a Brownie troop or Ambassador girl scout, this can help meet your bridging requirements to move up to Brownie Girl Scouts. We just love double dipping in our troop if you can’t tell.

Daisy Petal Respect Myself and Others Ideas

Movement Activities

1. Martial Arts field trip. Invite the girls to a martial arts class to learn about the respect that so many of these have embedded into their programs.
2. Physical Fitness. Have the girls practice some stretches or other warm ups to keep themselves physically strong. Another example, you could also play a sport or physical activity with the girls which can be great fun. Exercising is part of respecting yourself.
3. Respectful Charades. Have the girls write down (or prewrite) ways to show respect. Next, each girl (or pair) can pick a slip of paper and act out showing respect for yourself or others.
4. Manners Skit. Let the girls pick a manner or way to show respect for themselves and then work together in small groups to make and perform a skit for their sisters.

Health Activities

1. Make a healthy snack, breakfast, or lunch idea. In Gloria’s story they make breakfast smoothies, so making breakfast smoothies with the girls could be a lot of fun.
2. Glitter Germs. This is a great way to show the girls the need to wash their hands. You can buy glo germs and then use a black light to view the germs on the girls hands. However, if you are looking for a cheaper option, try glitter glue. Or you can make your own by using lotion with a little bit of glitter mixed in (be sure to use the small glitter so it doesn’t hurt). Have the girls rub it onto their hands and then practice washing them off. Another way to challenge the girls, use Vaseline mixed with glitter. Be sure to give them plenty of time to wash and wash again.

Respect Myself and Others Daisy Petal Craft Ideas

1. Create or decorate mirrors. We bought $1 mirrors from the dollar store and let the girls decorate them with gems and confidence stickers.
   1. Write Thank You Notes. We actually paired this with cookie selling and asked the girls to create a thank you note to their customers. What a great way to show respect to your customers and get repeat business.
2. Compliment Book. Have each girl write their name at the top of a piece of paper. We liked using decorative paper from the dollar store. Then let the girls write a compliment for each of their girl scout sisters on their page. If you have time, each girl could create a page for each of their sisters.
3. Make paper snowflakes. This is a great hands on way to help the girls respect differences. No two snowflakes are the same, just like no two girls are the same (even twins). Girls can each make a paper snowflake to represent all their differences. Once the girls are done, they need to respect others by cleaning up their girl scout meeting place.

Ending the Daisy Girl Scout Respect Myself and Others Meeting

We loved to continue the same pattern to extend our meetings as well. We asked the girls to practice being respectful to themselves and others with personal hygiene, healthy eating, physical fitness, and using positive talk. Then, we created a Gloria page with 3 lines for the girls to write down different ways that they were respectful. To earn their purple petal, each girl could then share one way that they practiced being respectful to themselves or others throughout the week.

Girl Scout Leader Tips

For this post, we are going to provide some tips on Girl Scout Bridging. For more information specifically on bridging from daisies to brownies, be sure to read our post Bridging from Girl Scout Daisies to Girl Scout Brownies. We loved to help you plan out your bridging ceremony.

Girl Scout Bridging

Bridging is a Girl Scout tradition to signify the scouts moving of Girl Scout ranks. After your scouts complete Girl Scout Daisies, they will bridge (or move up) to Girl Scout Brownies. The usual track is to spend 2 years at each Girl Scout rank before moving to the next level; however, you can begin Girl Scouts at any age. Therefore, some girls may only spend 1 year at a Girl Scout level before bridging.

Bridging is a Girl Scout honor to celebrate all that your scouts have accomplished throughout their time at their current Girl Scout level.

When Do Girl Scouts Bridge?

Daisies bridge to Brownies at the end of 1st grade.

Brownies bridge to Juniors at the end of 3rd grade.

Juniors bridge to Cadettes at the end of 5th grade.

Cadettes bridge to Seniors at the end of 8th grade (Cadettes is 3 years).

Seniors bridge to Ambassadors at the end of the 10th grade year.

Ambassadors bridge to Adult Girl Scouts at the end of their high school years.

How Do Girl Scouts Bridge?

There are a few traditional Girl Scout requirements to officially bridge to the next level.

1. Pass It On! Scouts should work with a troop who is one level before them. This allows scouts to teach the younger girls a little about Girl Scouts and be a sister to every scout. For Daisies, since they are the youngest group, they general meet with an Ambassador group but they could always meet with a potential Daisy Girl Scout troop too. Another option is to meet with a few new Daisy Girl Scout parents or leaders.
2. Look Ahead! Plan to work with scouts who are one level above your current troop. This allows the scouts to learn about the next level and start to brainstorm all the activities they want to try. For Daisies this would be a Brownie Girl Scout troop. Keep an eye on opportunities to invite a Girl Scout Brownie troop to your meetings.
3. Plan the ceremony with your girls. You will want an opening greeting and maybe even a flag ceremony. This can include reciting the Girl Scout Law and Girl Scout Promise. Then your scouts usually cross a symbolic bridge of some kind. Followed by the Girl Scout handshake and presentation of bridging gift, patches or awards. Girls always love receiving flowers too! Then plan out your closing and any refreshments.
4. Consider the Girl Scout bridging gifts, patches, and awards you want to present to your scouts after they cross the bridge. Many troops present their girls the next level vest or sash as well as the tradition Girl Scout bridging kits with all the patches and a certificate.

Connect with Us for More Great Girl Scout Tips

Now that you’ve met the Daisy respect myself and others 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 Respect Myself and Others 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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