Another oops

Because I was a little slack with postings this term, I thought I would be able to write all the posts over a few days and then arrange them into date order - turns out I can't do that, so please excuse Term 4's postings if the dates seem to jump all over the place!
I was very impressed to see 3 of my girls get prizes at their school prizegiving - the results were in the paper today!

Christmas crafts Thursday 25 November 2010

The Rangers wanted to have a night where they could make Christmas crafts. We made miniwreaths, cards and baubles. Here is the instructions on how to make them.
I will add a photo shortly of what they look like!
The baubles are quite easy - cut out circles or scallop circles, glued together with a ribbon through the middle
I took down my cuttlebug, dies, embossing folders and other scrapbooking tools and let the girls have fun with them. I was very impressed what they created. I will add a photo shortly of one of their cards.
We made Christmas puddins with mallowpuffs, melted white chocolate, spearmint leaves and jaffas (mmmm yum!!)

Timaru Christmas Parade 4 December 2010

My Rangers were in charge of decorating the float for Timaru District GirlGuiding.
They had nominated themselves to do it at the beginning of the year but then completely forgot - until I reminded them. Anyway, they went with pink/blue/white streamers and balloons. There was also a Christmas tree and presents! The Pippins, Rangers and leaders blew bubbles.
I have posted  before and after shots of the truck!

 The truck before hand - a lot bigger than we had anticipated!!

 All the balloons in my car waiting to be put on the float.

 Our sign.

Photo Walk

On the last night of term three some of the girls went round the local area taking photos of numbers on letter boxes, corners of signs, edges of gardens and other interesting objects.
So, this term all of the Rangers went for a walk to see if they could identify where the photos were taken. There were some interesting results. The girls found most of the photos very quickly! However there were a few that completely stumped them!

PS I will post photos later.

Oops

It's been a while since my last post!!
Rangers has been ticking along quite nicely.
We have stuffed envelopes for a regional newsletter, attempted a game of pool with nine players. and ate ice creams!
Tomorrow 5 girls and I are off to Geraldine to do the Marketing Certificate.
I will try better at posting more regulary!

5 August 2010 Make a platter

This term the girls are working on the Creative Cookery Interest Certificate. This week the girls were making a platter. They had chosen Sorbet, Lolly Cake and Fairy cakes to go on the platter.
Lolly Cake - This was delicious - there were some very big chunks of eskimoes in the cake. It was a double batch and almost didn't fit into the freezer.
Fairy Cakes - in different sizes. The girls iced  them and tried to eat the leftover edible glitter - apparently it doesn't taste very nice on its own.
Sorbet - this takes a lot longer to set than expected! It is still  in the freezer - I am wondering if I can let it soften a little and give it another beating and set it again for next week. The girls had sorbet shots so they could at least try the sorbet ...it went down well so must have tasted alright!

Camp

We went on an Indoor Camp at Raincliff Scout Camp with the local Guide unit. Our theme was "Whole in One camp". It's amazing how many activities link to the theme ...
Croquet
Making doughnuts - We forgot one crucial ingredient - the recipe!!So the girls made pikelets with holes instead, outside on the hotplate.
Photoframes
Scavenger hunt - looking for film containers that had parts of the Guides own inside.
Stitch a hole and sew a hole. The girls made their own blanket patches and sewed a button on their patches.


The Rangers were meant to do the Games Interest Certificate that weekend. So they had knuckle bones and cards out there. Monopoly Deal proved to be a big hit with leaders, guides and rangers.
Certain Rangers foretold girls futures using a deck of cards. (Hope mine doesn't come true!!)
 The Rangers told me they wanted to go for a walk ...and lo and behold found cellphone coverage!!

As always, the flying fox was very popular!

Queen's Garden Party 29 July 2010

One of the assessments I had to do from my last training was to organise and run a 'mystery night' for my unit. A while ago I had made up a wide game based on going to a Tea party with the Queen. I adapted this for the girls in my unit.
Activities included:
use morse code with jelly-beans and pebbles (no cellphoen reciption at Buckingham Palace :)
practise curtsies, posture and table manners
make the palace out of straws
create hats for the tea party
make up a skit to perform to the Queen
tear the South Island out of newspaper and show where Timaru is
tell the Queen how the Guiding Laws are similar to some of the laws in New Zealand.

There were a lot of laughs that night and I was impressed with how the compared Guiding laws to NZ laws!

Will post a photo or two shortly

The trial begins ...

Last night we sorted out a programme for the term. After much talking, giggling and attempted bossiness from me it was decided that we will be doing the Creative Cookery Leisure Certificate.
We will be making bread, pizza, decorating cakes,  making a platter full of sweets and designing new recipes and trialling them!
We have two camps this term! One is combined with a local Guide unit and the other  one we are having at Cracroft in Christchurch.

A blog for our Ranger unit. We are a unit in South Canterbury - currently with 10 Rangers and 1 leader.
At the moment this blog is a trial just to see how it goes ...