We had a lovely opportunity to run a session just for the girls at the restart centre on Thursday (there are about 25 girls living at the centre aged 4-18 years old). As we were quite unique in being a team of young women volunteers we very keen to do something special with the girls that also reflected some of the themes we know through Guiding (such as building confidence, trust, and friendship).
We picked out some appropriate songs and enjoyed teaching them to the girls which included 'Make New Friends, but keep the old, one is silver and the other gold', a Brownie song about a big smile that passes around the circle through squeezing hands and a song called 'Good evening friend Brownie' which involves greeting all of your friends in the circle.
Then we played a game based on charades about what we were good at to show that everyone was good at something - popular choices included skipping, dancing, singing and eating! And we finished with getting everyone to sit and try and work together to sing and do the actions to the song Edelweiss (actions involve clapping the hands of your neighbour as well as your own) which the older ones really enjoyed and the younger ones had a laugh with (even though it didn't quite work).
It was a very enjoyable afternoon, and we finished our time at the Restart by including the boys and getting the water balloon catapault out which was always popular!
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