Paper Doll Kaper Chart
Posted under: Education, Scouts
Job charts known to Girl Scouts as Kaper charts delegate jobs for each troop meeting. Make a paper doll Kaper chart to organize Girl Scout meetings.
This troop meeting Kaper chart uses paper dolls to represent each Girl Scout in the troop. Print free Girl Scout paper doll templates for Girl Scouts to assemble. Girl Scout paper doll templates include choices for skin tone, Girl Scout uniforms and hairstyles. Combine paper dolls with a chart of jobs to create a Kaper chart for Girl Scouts to organize troop meetings.
The Girl Scout program is designed to give as much responsibility as possible to the girls. Kaper charts are one way to involve Girl Scouts in every troop meeting. By delegating jobs to the girls, scout leaders can empower Girl Scouts to take ownership of the troop meetings.
Velcro attached to the back of the paper dolls allows the Kaper Chart Manager to move the dolls to a different job assignment block on the Kaper chart for each meeting.
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World Thinking Day
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Girl Scouts experienced an outdoor trip around the world at World Thinking Day 2010.
Arizona Cactus-Pine Council Girl Scouts participated in World Thinking Day on Feb. 6 as a way to show their awareness of the global community.
Each year, Girl Scouts and Girl Scout supporters and volunteers gather to learn about new cultures and celebrate international friendship. The organization represents girls in 145 countries around the world.
This year, Girl Scouts learned about a variety of places where Girl Scouts and Girl Guides operate, including Spain, Brazil, Saudi Arabia and France. Individual Girl Scout troops picked a country to represent and hosted a booth, creating informational displays highlighting a country’s culture, geography and products. The event was held at the North Phoenix Baptist Church, 5757 N. Central Ave.
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Girl Scouts History
Posted under: Education
Sadly, the title of this topic tells us that we still know so little about the Girl Scouts, and that they continue to live in the shadow of their young male counterparts.
There is not an organization called the Girl Scouts of America. In 1912, Juliette Gordon Low, having returned from abroad and being inspired by the Girl Guides organization, started the Girl Scouts. She gathered 18 young women and began teaching them about their community, the world around them, and the things they could accomplish. The earliest Girl Scouts learned many of the things today’s Scouts learncamping, hiking, food preparation, self-reliance and more.
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Know more about Girl Scouts
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Learn more about Girl Scout patches, badges and traditions for troop leaders, volunteers, Brownies, Juniors, Daisies and the Girl Scouts of America.
Girl Scouts have been meeting since March 12th, 1912. The first Girl Scout, Juliet Gordon Low (some scouts call her J-Low for short) decided that boys shouldn’t be the only kids to have their own club. After visiting Lord Baden Powell in England, and seeing the activities of the newly formed Boy Scouts, Juliet decided to begin holding regular social meetings for girls, too.
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Girl Scouts Beyond Bars
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The Girl Scouts might be best known for their jade green and brown outfits, their community volunteerism and those tiny, tasty cookies they sell each year in spring. Yet the organization’s commitment to building courage, confidence and character in all girls, regardless of their circumstances, inspires it to create a variety of programs that profoundly impact thousands of lives every day. One such effort began in the early 1990’s as a small grass roots project dedicated to connecting incarcerated mothers with their daughters.
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