Girl Scouts - Thinking Day
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World Thinking Day - February 22
Girl Scouts and Girl Guides around the world celebrate February 22nd as "Thinking Day". This lens will explain what Thinking Day is and how troops in the United States can celebrate Thinking Day.
I hope to provide a few ideas for food, games, crafts, and SWAPS. As well as some ideas to organize your own event. If you have any suggestions for event, please feel free to add them to the comment section.
I hope to provide a few ideas for food, games, crafts, and SWAPS. As well as some ideas to organize your own event. If you have any suggestions for event, please feel free to add them to the comment section.
Countdown to World Thinking Day 2013
World Thinking Day 2013: February 22, 2013
World Thinking Day - History
World Thinking Day was created in 1926 at a Girl Guide/Girl Scout International Conference. Attendees believed that there should be a day when Girl Scouts and Girl Guides around the world would think about the other "sister" Scouts.
The date February 22 was chosen because it was the mutual birth date of Lord Baden-Powell (founder of Boy Scout movement) and his wife Olave (who served as the World Chief Guide).
In 1932, the delagates of that year's International Conference suggested that the girl's donating to the World Association. Olave sent a letter to the Girl Guides and Girl Scouts of that year asking them to donate one penny.
In the United States, girls are asked to donate to the Juliette Low World Friendship Fund which donates to the World Thinking Day Fund.
Ideas for World Thinking Day
Service Unit or Neighborhood Level
There are many ways that a Service Unit/Neighborhood can celebrate World Thinking Day.Passport/Travel the World: Each troop selects a country. The troop learns about their selected country (games, food, Girl Guide law/promise and uniforms, etc.). The troops then create a presentation or display for an event that they can share with other troops. Troops can share food, crafts, songs or games for their selected country. The girls "travel" the "world" with their passports - visiting different countries, getting their passports "stamped" and tasting new food or trying new games.
Art Around the World: Set up an art exhibit which the girls draw pictures depicting life in their chosen country.
Community Culture Day: Get different ethnic groups in your community to share their culture with the troops. They can share dance, food and languages.
WAGGS World: Create stations to learn about Girl Guiding and Girl Scouts around the world. Create stations to learn about the four world centers.
Where in the Islands are Juliettes Jewels?: A Scavenger hunt. Troops select a country to present. Every troop will provide the same information on their presentation boards/displays: housing, clothing, climate, GS/GG uniform, pledge promise. During the event, the girls will go around and find answers to questions. For each correct answer - they will receive a "jewel". At the end of the event, the girls will have a "string of jewels" that will be their SWAP from the event.
Ideas for World Thinking Day
Troop level
If your Service Unit/Neighborhood doesn't plant Thinking Day events (or you have a cookie booth scheduled that weekend!) you can plan a Thinking Day event just for your troop. Here are some ideas:International Buffet Dinner Show: Every girl selects a country. The learn everything about the country - how Girl Scouting is different in that country, what kind of music they like, food, etc. The girls will dress in traditional costumes from their selected countries. They will create displays that feature the countries flags, maps, etc. to present to families. When the presentations are completed - the families are invited to the International Buffet of finger-food from the different countries.
International Currency (M&Ms):Take a bag of M&Ms and let the girls sort and find the different colors. Each color represents a different currency (Japanese Yen, Euro, Australian Dollar, etc). Leader finds out the currency rate and the girls determine which currency (in M&Ms) is worth the most. (And of course in the end - they get to eat the M&Ms!)
Games for Thinking Day
There are several games you can play with the girls to teach them about Girl Scouts/Girl Guiding and Thinking Day.It's great to find games from the country that you are representing to present to the girls.
Here are some other ideas:
Girl Scout Jeopardy game is great for older girls to remind them about Girl Scouting.
World Centre Jeopardy focuses on the World Centers.
Guiding Jeopardy focuses on Girl Guides.
Games to represent countries can be found at World Thinking Day Games
Links for Games
More links for game ideas!
- International Games
- Games for Argentina, Australia, Canada, Czech, England, Filipino, Ghana, Italian, Japanese, and Pakistani.
- Traditional Children's Games from Around the World | TOPICS Online Magazine | ESL/EFL | Sandy and Thomas Peters
- Children's Games from Around the World.
Around the world, children have one thing in common. They love to play games.Discover how children from Venezuela, Mexico,
Korea, China, Germany, and many other countries
play different games. - Thinking Day Ideas
- Games, songs, and recipes from around the world
Books to Help with Thinking Day
SWAPs for Thinking Day
SWAP's for a Thinking Day event usually represent the country you are focused on. This can be anything from a copy of the countries flag, the shape of the country or anything that can represent the country (example: England - phone booths, guard at Buckingham Palace, etc. Ireland - shamrock). Links for SWAPs for Thinking Day
- Miniature International and State Toothpick Flags - Miniature International Flags
- Miniature International and State Toothpick Flags.
- SWAPS for Girl Scouts - girl scout SWAPS craft ideas
- Girls Scout Craft called SWAPS. SWAPs are pins that girl scouts make to trade with each other.
- Beaded Mini Flags
- Mini Beaded Flags
Choose a country and make a flag! We've found ten countries whose flags will work with this project: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Romania and Russia. - flagpins
- Miniature lapel pins that represent flags of the world.
Food For Thinking Day
It's great for the girls to try foods from different countries. Last year, we had England for our country so we had tea and shortbread biscuits for the girls to sample. When we did Mexico, we had a Mom that showed the girls how to make homemade tortilla's. The girl's loved making them! Here are some other ideas:Ice Cream Sundae's Around the World
Links for Food for Thinking Day
- Thinking Day Ideas
- Recipes, games, and songs from around the world.
- Country Recipes
- Free Recipes...Cooking Secrets...Mimi's Cyber-Kitchen...
Ceremonies for Thinking Day
There are a lot of different ceremonies that you can do for your Thinking Day ceremony. You can recreate the World Flag, do a presentation of the World Pin and even candlelight ceremonies. There is something for everyone!WAGGS Pin Ceremony - and another WAGGS Pin Ceremony.
World Thinking Day Friends
World Friendship Candlelight Ceremony
Thinking Day Ceremony
Trefoil Thinking Day Ceremony
Brownie Thinking Day Ceremony
Golden Link Ceremony
Thinking Day Ceremony for Leaders
Thinking Day Message and Candle Ceremony
Link List for Thinking Day Ceremonies
More Links for More Ceremonies!
- Scouting Web Ceremonies
- List of Thinking Day Ceremonies
- Diversity Flame Ceremony
- Diversity Flame Ceremony
- Common Flame
- THE COMMON FLAME CEREMONY
- THINKING DAY CEREMONIES
- THINKING DAY CEREMONIES World Trefoil Pin Ceremony
- What is World Thinking Day
- WHAT IS WORLD THINKING DAY CEREMONY
Juliette Low World Friendship Fund
Here are some websites to give you more information on the Juliette Low World Friendship Fund:
Juliette Low World Friendship Fund
Juliette Low Game
Thinking Day Postcard Exchange
My troops have participated in the Postcard Exchange for 3 years. The girls select what they want to say on the postcard - they usually include information on the activities that they have done in the past year. They also may include some special areas in their state that they enjoy. We usually buy postcards that represent the area of the state we live in or just general postcards about our state.
We have received some very beautiful and unique postcards. One postcard that we received was a photo of the troop. We display our postcards at our Thinking Day event.
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More Link Resources for World Thinking Day!
- The Guide Zone - International Information and Activities Index
- International Information and Activities Thinking Day
- Singing Game For Thinking Day
- A Singing Game For Thinking Day(to the tune of "Here We Go 'Round The Mulberry Bush")Thanks very much to Wendy Baker for posting this
singing game to the Guiding Mailing List!Here we go round and round the world, Round the world, round the world. Here we go round and round the world, - Scouting Web Travel World Resources
- Travel Ideas
- Friends of the Four World Centers
- Friends of the 4 World Centres Our Chalet Our Cabana Sangam Pax Lodge
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What Country Has Your Scout Troop Represented on Thinking Day?
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- We have done Zambia and Ireland
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- The Netherland, Niger and Cook Island
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