Santa’s Shoe box and Women’s rights

A big thank you to all the parents who sent contributions for the Santa Shoe Box Project. Our box was bulging and I had to remove the wrappins of some of the stationary to get it to fit in.  The girls did a great job of decorating the box with decoupage using material and modge podge and I hope it will make some little girl really happy.

 

This week we tackled women’s rights and why we celebrate Women’s Day in August. The girls had done some research and presented a play for us.

We decided that women had the right to feel beautiful so we played a game using nail polish to paint toe nails according to the spin of a marker.

Finally we ended with a team building game where one sighted player leads a train of blindfolded players around a course. Although there were only 4 Guides and one visiting Brownie, everybody had a lot of fun.

Masidlale Games

Every year the Gauteng Region holds a fun day of competitive games. It used to be called Splish Splash and involved water games but now it is called the Masidlale Games and this year water was omitted. It is also a fundraising event so a jumping castle, tea garden, food stalls and other marked stalls are organised.  Each district has to organise a base. I organised the Wilds base which involved making an emergency stretcher from blankets and gum poles and carrying one member across the course and then changing the patient.

Contestants ranged from Teddies

 

to Brownies,

to young leaders

 

Two of the Waverley Guides attended and joined up with the 3rd Randburg Guides to make a team of five.

Games included tying spaghetti in knots,

the stretcher base,

 

There was also picking up marbles with toes and then hopping across the course to deposit them into a bowl, throwing bean bags, rolling balls through tubes and joining the team’s tubes and others. Although we only had two Guides attending, those two had great fun.