Color a Smile

Our first service project was for Color a Smile. This organization collects drawings from schoolkids and Scouts like us, and donates them to nursing homes, Meals on Wheels, etc. We spent our activity time at this week's meeting in coloring over twenty pages!

Our Daisies are welcome to print out pages at home and bring them to the meeting for service credit. Please keep track of the time you've spent coloring, so that you can record it on your Inchworm of Service record and earn your next patch!

Inchworm of Service

The Inchworm of Service patch program is one of the ways in which GSCOC encourages Girl Scouts to provide service to our families and communities and teaches girls the value of helping others. Girl Scouts at all levels keep track of their service hours on the Inchworm form, and after completing the required number of hours they will have earned a patch, which they can wear on the back of their tunic or vest. The first patch is the head of the inchworm. Girls can earn as many Inchworm patches as they are able.

Daisies are required to complete 5 hours of service in order to receive a patch.

Service time can be earned as a troop or at home. Record your Daisy's time in 15-minute increments -- each Inchworm section on the form stands for 1 hour.

More information and printable Inchworm forms can be found here.

Halloween Apple Bites

Here is a silly snack that we made the week of Halloween -- the idea is from the October 2007 issue of FamilyFun magazine, and can also be found here.

Halloween Apple Bites

You will need:

• apples (1 apple will make four snacks)
• slivered almonds
• cutting board
• sharp knife
• napkins or plates to set the apple on
• small bowls to share the slivered almonds
• box or plastic bag to take home the apple trimmings for your compost pile!

One of the leaders can cut each apple into quarters. Core the quarters, and cut out a wedge from the skin side of each quarter. This makes the "mouth".

Have the girls press the slivered almonds into place for "teeth," at the top or bottom or both!