Silver lining

People have different gifts and talents. People look at other people from their understanding of life. Therefore using this chart has helped when trying to sort out what different affect people in various ways. Turning negative thoughts into positive thoughts and paving the way for a more creatively positive attitude and environment is a terrific thing to do. Used often with reflection and evaluations this chart becomes instinctive in it's use. Able to be recalled often .

When the Guides are trying to work out where there relatives are that live in Australia this is one of the maps we have used

Activities using playdough

Just making the playdough in it self is a very creative activity for the Guides of all ages.


Guides and adults have used it when organising activities.
Junior Leaders sometimes use it as a teaching aid (part of their Leadership three).


Teddy Bears Picnic

Playdough reciepes

We have used several different recipes for playdough. Everyone it seems brings with them an updated version. So we've started a list of them


What You Need:

1 cup flour, 1/2 cup cooking salt, 1 cup water, 1 tablespoon of cream of tartar, 1 tablespoon of cooking oil, food colouring
Activity:

Mix the flour, water, salt and cream of tartar in a saucepan over medium heat until thick. Allow the mixture to cool and then add the oil and knead well over a floured cutting board or similar. Divide this blob evenly into as many colours as you'd like to make. Add food colouring to each ball until it is just the colour your child is looking for. That's it! Allow the children to let their imaginations take them away.

Using Play Dough for teddies friends.

The Guides love using playdough to make teddy's friends. Even better if they can be convinced that using real dough and cooking then eating it won't hurt their Teddies friendship . Can be quite an enlightening time for the adults.

During the Black Saturday aftermarth these brave Teddies

During the 2009 Black Saturday Fire aftermath these brave teddies came out to play. The Guide unit had planned a Teddy Bears picnic to be occuring during the Fire time. No one could make it there on the day.

We photographed the bears coming, planned the food, sorted out the activites, worked out a root to take the teddy bears on and all this fell in a heap as others things were sorted out.

But the good news is that not one teddy was lost to the Fires.

STAND EASY

STAND EASY:

Command - Unit, stand EASY

The feet remain in the same position as stand-at-ease, but the hands and body may be moved. This position is used when a group are in position and waiting for the arrival of a VIP as in a guard of honour. To bring the group to attention, give the command: Unit, atten-SHUN. On the word 'unit' the group will come to the stand-at-ease position and on the final order come smartly to attention.



Practiced using the Ceremonial made Easy pamphlet.