Guiding Light
View(s):It’s the holidays once again! So here are some fun and exciting games you can play with your friends.
Animal tag:
This beastly version of “Tag You’re It!” should be played in a clear space or outside. First, choose one girl to start off as “It.” She chases the others and the first girl she touches becomes the next It – but with a difference.
The girl doing the tagging (the first It) shouts out the name of an animal or bird and the new It must run around pretending to be the animal chosen while she chases the other girls. She has to continue her impression even after she tags someone else (and gives them a bird or animal to imitate) and is no longer It. By the end of the game everyone will be squawking, roaring or barking…
Officer, have you seen my friend?
Two girls are selected from a group; one is a police officer and the other is someone reporting a lost friend. The latter decides who in the group is going to be her “lost” friend and describes her to the police officer.
Based on the description, the police officer has three tries to correctly identify who she means. Initially the descriptions can be based on physical characteristics but can then be developed into a description of the friend’s positive qualities, for example: She is friendly, she is good at… and so on. If the police officer cannot solve the problem, the other members of the police department (the rest of the group) can help.
Below is a puzzle that would help strengthen your knowledge on the history of Guiding!
Find in the puzzle, the answers to the following statements:
Answers can be found vertically, horizontally and diagonally both in forward and backward direction.
1. What a Scout/Girl Guide repeats at her enrollment
2. The event at which the first Girl Scouts showed up
3. The first word in the name of the place where this event took place
4. The first name of the founder of Scouts
5. The last name of the founder of Scouts and Girl Guides – two words
6. The initials of the World Association.
7. Lady BP’s name
8. Those who camped at Brownsea Island
9. The name of the country with a famous regiment of “Guides”
10. BP’s Sister’s first name. She helped him start Guiding for Girls
11. BP’s profession before he worked full time with Scouting
12. The country where Scouting and Guiding began