Brownies Around the World Try-It

Brownies Girl Scouts
Around The World

From Argentina to Zimbabwe, Girl Scouts and Girl Guides are having fun,
helping others, learning new things, and pitching in to help in their communities.
Choose from the following activities to learn about
Brownies around the world.

#1 – What do They Call Brownie Girl Scouts around the World
Girls your age are called Brownie Girl Scouts in the U.S. But what are they called in other countries?
Find countries locations on a map or globe and show the girls where they are located!

Match each term with the correct country. How do you know if you have the countries correct? When you circle the first letter of each country, you'll spell out a word that fits in the sentence below:

Thailand	Minor Guides	__________________________
Norway	Little Wings	__________________________
Ghana	Zahra's	__________________________
Italy	Brownie Guides	__________________________
Chile	Bluebirds	__________________________
United Kingdom	Wolf Cubs	__________________________
Sweden	Brownies	__________________________
Oman	Ananse Guides	__________________________

Answer:
Sweden – Minor Guides
Chile – Little Wings
Oman – Zahra's
United Kingdom – Brownie Guides
Thailand – Bluebirds
Italy – Wolf Cubs
Norway – Brownies
Ghana – Ananse Guides
Secret word: Scouting

#2 Where in the World?
Choose 3 countries from the first list and find out two facts about each of them.

Country Profiles: Includes information on each country's geography, climate, & more.
Just For Girls: Part of the GSUSA web site. Has info about Scouting around the world.
World Guiding: Has information on Scouting & Guiding in other countries.
International Friends: Learn about life in another country & print out your own paper doll from that country.
National Geographic Kids: The National Geographic Society's web site for kids...lots of info & fun, too.

#3 Around the World:
Learn a song, dance, game, story or make a craft from another country. Share what you learned with your Girl Scout troop or group, or with your family.

Music Mystery – Canada
Divide group into two teams. Team 1 is the band. Team 2 is the audience.
Team 1 picks a song and beats out the rhythm of the song using pot lids, bells or other items.
Team 2 tries to guess the song and then sings aloud.
Teams switch roles and repeat actions.

The Ocean is Stormy - A Danish Game
1. Use chalk or string to mark circles on the floor or ground.
2. Get into pairs. Each pair, except for one, should stand in a circle
and choose the name of a fish. The names of some fishes are: Sea Bass, Trout, Perch, Catfish, Herring, Salmon, Pike, flounder, Porgie, Sun Fish, Sturgeon, Bluefish, and Blackfish.
3. The 2 girls who have not chosen fish names are the whales. They walk around the outside of the circles and call out names of fish.
4. When a pair's fish name is called, they leave the circle and walk behind the whales.
5. After all the fish names are called, or after the whales call all the names they can think of, the whales shout "The ocean is stormy!"
6. Then everybody rushes to find a circle. Any two girls can get in a circle.
7. The 2 girls left without a circle become the whales for the next game.

Rabbit w/o a house (Brazil)
Need 11 people
1. Pick someone to be "it" (the rabbit w/o a house) and someone to be
the caller.
2. Divide the others into groups of 3.
3. Each group makes a rabbit in a house by two girls holding hands (the
house) and one (the rabbit) standing inside.
4. The caller yells "Find a house" and all the rabbits, including the
one without a house, have to run to find another house
5. The rabbit left without a house become it.

Dances:
Mexican Hat Dance
Background: This version of the "Mexican Hat Dance" gives children who are inhibited the chance to dance with a group. It's a great addition to a party with a Latin American theme.
Setting up: Cut a large circle from construction paper and use a marker to draw the features of a Mexican sombrero like the one in the illustration above. Lay the drawing in the center of the floor and ask the children to stand around it.
What to do: Play the "Mexican Hat Dance" on a recording and have the children move in a circle around the hat. Clap to emphasize the beat of the music and encourage the children to clap along. During the "Mexican Hat Dance" dancers step on the edge of the hat as they move in a circle. Older children will be able to dance, clap and move around the hat.

Maraca March
Materials
• Plastic bottles with long necks, e.g., ketchup and sauce bottles
• Rice, beans, birdseed
• Macaroni
• Masking tape

Directions: Partly fill the bottles with rice, beans, birdseed or macaroni. Seal the bottles with masking tape. Wrap additional tape around necks to make a comfortable handle. Make a pair for each child. Now encourage the child to move and shake the "maracas" either to music or clapping or no sounds at all. Marching is a good activity which can be developed into other locomotion's as the child becomes more creative and comfortable with the handheld rhythmic Instruments.

Irish Celtic Dance
Girls line up in two parallel lines – the girls across from each other are partners. First two hold ends of white handkerchief and dance through the line of the other girls (other hand is bent on waist) – they then go to the end of the line and the next two girls dance up through the line, etc, etc. until girls have all had a turn or until they are tired of dancing! J

Hawaiian style. Dance: Hula Dancing
Directions: The girls will make up hand movements to this song: Rainbow song ( sung to Mary had a little lamb), Rainbow over the waterfall, waterfall, waterfall,, Rainbow over the waterfall Rainbow over the tree,, Rainbow over the mountain, mountain, mountain,, Rainbow over the mountain, Rainbow over the sea. Rainbow over the flowers, flowers, flowers,, Rainbow over the flowers, Rainbow over the bee. Rainbow over the dancers , dancers, dancers, Rainbow over the dancers, Rainbow over me!, b) Food/Drink: bananas, fruits, having a luau Recipe: , Making poi (mashed taro root) using whipped cream sweeten with pineapple juice. Leaving a bowl without due to food allergies. c) Craft: We made masks and hula skirts , Directions: Skirts were made by cutting strips in trash bags They will tie the bags around their waist. Leis I made by sewing plastic bags cut into strips together. , d) Other: Using a tarp for the luau (as the ground),

#4 Create A Picture Book:
Create a picture book of activities that your troop or group likes to do. Draw pictures or use photos to illustrate the activities.
Display your book during Friendship Week.

#5 Global Games:
Pick one of the games below and try it out with girls, family, or friends.

This is a fruit rather like a tamarind, the seed of the fruit is used for this game. Two teams line up opposite each other. On the ground in front of each team is a row of about half a dozen of these seeds. Each player also holds one in their hand. They throw the seeds in their hands at the ones in front of them if anyone misses they have lost the game. The other team then has a go. When the game is finished, the winners get to hit the losers on their knees with bamboo sticks or with the seeds themselves

Boh Choong from Cambodia

This is a game played by boys and girls and is a kind of courting ritual. The boys and girls line up facing each other. A member of one team throws a cloth ball over to the other side. Whoever manages to catch the ball then must chase the person and try to hit them with it. This game is done by the next person and then the next until there are no people left.

This is much like skittles. The idea of the game is to knock down targets with small wooden balls. You line a row of nine plastic bottles or pins (like ten pin bowling pins) and you roll the ball at the pins and knock as many of them down in one hit as possible.

This is a game rather like baseball or cricket, the only difference is that it is played with two sticks one big one and one small one. A small hole is dug in the ground and the small stick is placed across the hole.
The first player puts the end of the big stick into the hole and uses it to flick the small stick up in the air and as far away as possible. All the other players must try to field and catch the stick if they do then the first player is out. Otherwise the fielders try to get the player out by throwing the small stick back into the hole, the first player must try to fend it of with the big stick. The first player continues this until he or she is caught out. Scoring is done by using the big stick to measure the number of lengths between the hole and the small stick. At the end of the game, the player with the highest score wins.

Chinese Jump Rope
Create an elastic band of about 12 to 15 feet. You can buy this type of jump rope in toy stores. Two girls place their feet inside of the band, standing far enough apart that the jump rope is tight. A third girl is the jumper. She can jump over one rope and back over the same one. Or she can jump rope over one rope and then over the next rope.