- We have a Disney Daisy stuffed animal as our troop mascot. Now that some girls are moving up to Brownie level, we also have a mascot for the Brownies which is a cute brown bear (named Brownie, of course!) and it travels in a cute suitcase. Both Daisies and Brownies are taken home by one girl every meeting and it teaches them responsibility, care of one's belongings, sharing and other things.

- One meeting I asked the girls to bring in two or three books that they are ready to part with so that we could donate to our local library. When they got at the meeting, I put all the books on the table and - surprise! - I told them that they could pick one book for themselves and we would donate whatever was left on the table. The idea was for them to bring in books to donate without expecting anything in return and it showed how giving and compassionate they can be! Great lesson!

- Talking about recycling we invited a music teacher to come and share with us her experience with music and share some musical instruments. Before that, we reviewed the importance of recycling, I brought in a huge bin with real life objects to be sorted and recycled and we made our own musical instruments out of recycling objects to be used and played when the music teacher came for her demonstration. It was awesome!

- We have a webiste asatroopevents10379.shutterfly.com and we post all the pictures of all the events we participate and all the meetings there. Calendar of events is also updated as often as possible.

- Before every meeting I send the moms an email with reminders and what we are planning to do. I always ask if someone is interested in bringing snacks and never had a problem with that.

-For our Bridging to Brownie ceremony we are doing it at Orchid Park in CS this Friday and the girls and I discussed a few things and we decided that they should also make handmade decorations for the bridge and I asked the moms to have their girls prepare something nice to say to one Brownie at the ceremony (such as how nice it was having her in their Daisy troop, things they did together, the fun, a special thing about that girl, etc). We will cross the bridge wearing the Daisy uniform and get the Brownie one on the other side. They will get a brownie too to eat. Yumm!