Responsible for What I Say and Do – Mari’s Petal Ideas

Daisy responsible for what I say and do is the fifth trait in the Girl Scout Law. This is Mari’s line of the law and matches the orange petal. Many of our girls understand being responsible for what they do, but they benefited from some help on being responsible for what they say. Many times they say things and don’t even realize what they are saying or how it may make others feel and often times it is what they did not say that may have hurt someone’s feelings.

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. Our guide includes 10 different activities for earning Mari’s responsible for what I say and do daisy petal.

Daisy Responsible for What I Say and Do Activities

This is our sample agenda to assist leaders with planning the Daisy Girl Scout meeting on Mari’s petal – responsible for what I say and do. Definitely take a peek at the next petal you plan to help your scouts earn while planning out this petal. Why? So you can provide your girls 3 – 4 activities that you would like to try out with the next petal. Then your scouts can pick the 1 – 2 activities they would like to do. Providing choices is a simple way to keep our Daisy meetings more girl-led throughout the year. Be sure to take a peek at our post about Gloria’s petal – respect myself and others.

We try to save a few minutes at the end of each meeting to preview the next petal we are planning to earn with our scouts. 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

Having a similar gathering activity each week helped our Daisies know what to do as soon as they arrived. We loved the flower coloring pages from makingfriends.com. 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.

If you haven’t already mastered setting up your scout meeting place for efficient meetings, be sure to check out 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 earn the responsible for what I say and do Daisy petal.

Mari’s Story Girl Scouts

Storytime was always paired with snack time for our girls. We set this up by asking our girls to all bring in something to decorate cupcakes at our last meeting. Since our scouts decided that they wanted to decorate cupcakes for snack at our last meeting, it was super easy to ask the parents to help out. We needed cupcakes, a few colors of frosting (easy to add more for your number of girls), plates, napkins, plastic knives, and a few different kinds of sprinkles (again easy to adjust how much depending on your number of girls). The girls were able to decorate their cupcakes with Mari. Plus they were responsible for what they do by bringing in their items.

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. Plus this adds a little change to your meetings to keep them entertaining and exciting for your scouts.

Step 2: Responsible Charades

We asked our girls to act out different ways that they are responsible during the day. First, begin by asking the girls to brainstorm different things they do during their day. For example, making the bed, getting dressed, putting their dishes in the dishwasher, doing their homework, reading, putting dirty clothes in the hamper, sitting by a friend they had promised to sit with, and bringing their papers back to their teacher.

Once you have a nice list of activities, the girls can take turns acting out an activity for the other scouts. We kept this whole group but you could easily split into smaller groups so your girls get more opportunities. If you aren’t sure, let you girls take a vote. Just be ready to be the tie breaker or voice of reason if your girls are split between the two choices.

Responsible for What I Say and Do Daisy Petal Ideas

Group Activities

1. Smiley/Frownie game – we had a smiley face on one side of the room and a frownie face on the other. First, we read different statements. Then, we had the girls move by the smiley face if it made them feel good. Instead, the girls moved by the frownie face if it made them feel sad. At the end, we let the girls take turns coming up with statements.
2. Plant a marigold seed for girls to take care of as it grows. You can tie this with the Make the World a Better Place petal. The girls can plant their flowers or giving the flowers to a volunteer or teacher.
3. If you have not already, introduce a Kaper chart and have the girls help brainstorm the jobs that can be done at each meeting. See our Kaper chart on the right here. We made ours on a wheel so it was super easy to turn it to switch the jobs.
4. Clean up your meeting place or find a way to make your meeting place better. This is something you promised to do when you started meeting there. It’s a good reminder for girls to always leave their meeting place better than they found it.

Responsible for What I Say and Do Daisy Petal Craft Ideas

1. Decorate tote bags – we bought simple tote bags from Michaels, fabric markers and flowers. We let the girls decorate their tote bags. These bags carried all the Girl Scout materials to and from the meetings to help them be more responsible.
2. Chore Door Hanger – buy or cut out door hangers from foam or card stock. The girls write down their different chores on clothespins. Then write To Do and Done on top of their door hanger on different sides. As the girls finish a chore, they move the clothespin to the Done side.
3. Create Mari flower – orange and yellow cupcake liners and some orange and yellow paper plus green pipe cleaners. We had the girls overlap the orange and yellow cupcake lines and lay out flat. Then they cut a flower shape. Then they cut the orange flower petals a little shorter and overlapped the two cupcake liners. Lastly they glued a yellow circle and smaller orange circle in the center of their cupcake lines.

4. Rock Pet – we gave the girls a rock and let them design it using sharpies and paint. They needed to take care of their rock pet until our next girl scout meeting where they should bring their pet to show that they are responsible for what they say and do.

5. Make a friendship bracelet to give to someone who is your friend.

6. Compliment Cards – give each girl 5 notecards. In the middle, the girls can each write down a compliment on each card. Then they can decorate the cards to give out throughout the week to show they are responsible for what they say.

Ending the Daisy Girl Scout Responsible for What I Say and Do Meeting

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

Girl Scout Leader Tips

We are going to take a moment to add some Girl Scout leader tips on making a simple kaper chart and using the Girl Scout Volunteer Toolkit.

Easy to Use Girl Scout Kaper Chart

A kaper chart is an excellent way to include your girls in your meeting. Assigning jobs for each meeting helps your girls to run their own meetings and keeps everything running smoothly. Plus you begin teaching the girls parts of running meetings slowly.

1. Create a circle and place your girls’ names on the circle. This makes it easy to change throughout the years as you lose girls, get new girls, or even need to change their names. You can easily take off the circle and replace with a new one.
2. Use a brad paper fastener to attach the circle to your kaper chart with the jobs. We actually attached this to our main Daisy board, but you could do yours separately.
3. Have a girl scout job for each scout in your troop. If you need, you could always add in a substitute or two for when you have scouts miss a meeting.
4. Pair a picture with each job for your younger Daisy Girl Scouts who aren’t reading just yet.
5. Attach the jobs with double-sided tape or sticky tack so that they can be moved easily. You may need to remove or add jobs as your troop size changes.

Girl Scout Volunteer Toolkit

The Girl Scouts offers a free volunteer toolkit. This is an incredible resource for leaders and it’s completely free. It includes all the requirements and resources for petals, badges, and journeys for each year. And it doesn’t require a trip to the Girl Scout shop either.

1. You can add each of your meetings into the toolkit as well as which petal, badge, or journey you want to work on. There are agendas inside this tool for each meeting throughout the year.
2. We find the agendas rather overwhelming, but we love the tool! We pick each petal, badge, or journey that we want to earn during our Girl Scout year. Then we have quick access to the requirements without needing an extra leader binder.
3. You can print these resources or save them to your computer or even Google drive. We like to create a folder by petal, badge or journey. Then we simply add the requirements and resources right into the folder for easy access later.
4. These agendas are great to send to families when you have a scout who misses a meeting or want to get families involved in planning the meetings.

Now that you’ve met the Daisy responsible for what I say and do petal requirements, which petal will you work on next? Please be sure to check out our 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 Responsible for What I Say and Do 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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