The life of a Girl Scout Leader

Here is our schedule for the year: 3:30-4:15pm - Troop Meeting 4:15-5:00pm - Girls Split for their level badge and journey work Leaders and assistants help during our troop activity time Leaders and assistants run the Daisy, Brownie, and Junior levels once they split into those groups.  Since I do not have a level to teach this year I am able to be there for everything else. I am there to answer questions, collect money, make sure all the leaders have everything they need, fill in for leaders if they are sick, and anything else that may come up!  October 23rd was our first official meeting for the year with all the new leaders and assistants and new girls! During troop time for this meeting we played a game, girls did their level work, and we end every meeting with a giant Friendship Circle with our Make New Friends song! 

At the start of the new Girl Scout year on October 1st, 2016 we were way understaffed for Volunteers! It was just my Co-Leader and I for almost 40 girls, that just wasn't going work anymore. So we sat down and came up with a list of positions that we could use to help the troop run better without all the stress being on us alone. Here is what we came up with: Daisy, Brownie, & Junior Leaders- Plan meetings for their level Daisy, Brownie, & Junior Assistant Leaders- Assist with meetings for their level Daisy, Brownie, & Junior Communications Assistants- Send messages about events & meetings Daisy, Brownie, & Junior Cookie Assistants- Assist with cookies during cookie season Refreshment Coordinator- Remind parents when it's their turn to bring snacks and drinks Fundraiser Organizer- In charge of coming up with fundraisers to do during the year Decorating Committee- Parents who want to help with decorating for parties and parades So instead of d...

This year we only had 12 girls coming back to the troop which was good cause that was double the amount that we started with the year before. We started preparing for recruiting in August. We made plans to be at the local health fair, and all three of the Meet the Teacher nights at the schools! We had a couple girls at each event there to hand out flyers and bracelets to girls that might want to join Girl Scouts! We made a slide show video to post on our local city Facebook page. That had everything we had done for the past year in pictures! We went to the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd grade school to do a Girl Scout Rally at lunch time to get girls ready for the recruitment party! We posted some more on the local city Facebook page to advertise for the recruitment party. We also planned, with our service unit team, a Recruitment Party! Girls were able to come and go to 6 different stations. They got to learn the Promise & Law, sing songs, play games, make indoor Smore's, and ma...