| Brownie Girl Scouts Through The Years |  |
| Brownie Girl Scouts Through The Years | |
Brownie Girl Scouting got started in the late 1920's. Many of the appliances we take for granted today had not yet been invented. Few people flew in airplanes, or used a phone to call long distance. Many of the other medicines people use today had not been discovered.
Choose from the following activities to learn more about the past.
#1. Meals:
Travel back in time with your Girl Scout troop or group. Choose a
decade (1920’s, 1930’s, 1940’s, etc) and create a snack that Brownie Girl Scouts
would have eaten then. If your period is the 1920’s: you don’t want to serve
frozen foods, since they weren’t available until many years later.
http://www.gti.net/mocolib1/kid/food.html A Food Time Line
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/4190/timeline.htm Another Food Time
Line
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/4190/partymenus.html Theme parties by
decades
Fads of the 1940's
& 50's: Fads from the time period in the unit
s of fashion, food, & more.
Recipes from the 1950's: Has lots of recipes, including some desserts &
snacks.
Soda Fountain Recipes from the 20's & 30's: This site has recipes for the
sort of items you would get at a soda fountain during this period, including
recipes for the drinks!
Games, Songs,
Recipes from All Over the World
Snack Food Through the
Years Choose from eight recipes from decades past.
http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/museum/kidstuff/erlyagri/sugar.html How
To Make Rock Candy
#2 Clothes:
Pick a time period and create outfits that would have been in fashion
then. As you wear your outfits, try to imagine being in those same clothes years
ago. How should you move and sit in them? How is your outfit different from the
clothes you wear today?
Find out what girls hairstyles were like back in the decade you’ve chosen. Wear
your hair in that fashion.
http://www.costumegallery.com/1920.htm 1920’s fashions/hairstyles
http://www.costumegallery.com/1930.htm 1930’s
http://www.costumegallery.com/1940.htm 1940’s
http://www.costumegallery.com/1950.htm 1950’s
http://www.costumegallery.com/1960.htm 1960’s
http://www.costumegallery.com/1970.htm 1970’s
http://www.costumegallery.com/1980.htm 1980’s - 1990
Merana's Scout Site: Girl Scout and International Uniforms: Good site to see uniforms of different time periods.
Grannyville:
Links to 40's, 50's & 60's Nostalgia sites.
http://www.costumegallery.com/hairstyles.htm Hairstyles through the
century’s
Fads of the 1940's
& 50's: Fads from the time period in the unit
s of fashion, food, & more.
Retro Crafts
#3. Entertainment:
Choose songs to play and movies to watch from a previous decade
(20’s, 30’s, 40’s, etc.). With your friends, learn a card game that people
played back then, or find a game that your parents or grandparents remember
playing.
http://europa.it.ilstu.edu/~brown/PB-WWW-LIST.TXT Monster list of games/dates when they were available
http://www.stratfordhall.org/ed-games.htm Leisure Games of the past
http://www.livinghistoryonline.com/beast.htm Two Historic Card Games
#4 Sing a Song:
Choose a decade and learn a song that was popular at that time. Sing
it for your troop and then teach it to them.
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/sheetmusic/timeline.html Historic American Sheet Music Time Line
http://www.ksu.edu/english/nelp/american.studies.s98/musicof1930s.html Some Songs of 1930’s
http://www.nhmccd.edu/contracts/lrc/kc/music-2.html American Popular Music 1900 – 1950
http://www.copcity.com/17.5.html Music Hall - 1950’s and 1960’s
#5. Language of the Times:
Ask people of different ages about expressions they used as a child.
Look at movies, TV shows, or magazines from those years. How did girls your age
talk? What were “cool” words or sayings? How did girls your age act? What were
other manners of the time you’ve picked?
These are 15
silly expressions I found:
15. You're the berries!!
14. Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me!!
13. I am rubber and you are glue. Whatever you say bounces off me and sticks to
you!!
12. I know what you are but what am I?!!
11. So buttons on ice cream and see if they stick!!
10. Down the yellow brick road we go!!
9. Practice makes perfect!!
8. If at first you don't succeed, try try again!!
7. Papa needs a new pair of shoes!!
6. I'm breathing down your neck!!
5. That was then and this is now!!
4. Because I said so that's why!!
3. No way Jose`!!
2. When I was your age, we walked 6 miles to school uphill both ways, blah, blah
blah!!
1. Shuffle off to Buffalo!!!!!!!!!
#6. Service to Others:
Pick a time period, and plan and carry out a service project Girl
Scouts would have done back then?
Examples:
1910’s: Girls served their country on the home front (during World War I) by working in hospitals, growing vegetables and selling defense bonds.
1920’s: Girls packed and dedicated holiday baskets for the Salvation Army
1930’s: Girls joined the relief effort of the Great
Depression by collecting clothes, food and toys; volunteered at hospitals; and
worked on communit
y canning projects. In 1936 Girl Scouts starting selling Girl
Scout Cookies.
1940’s: Girls rolled bandages for the American Men & Women serving in World War II.
Girls ran paper and aluminum drives and grew “victory gardens”.
1980’s: Girls contributed to food drives for local food pantries.
Today: Girls might be involved with recycling paper or cans or collecting children’s video’s to donate to a local hospital.
Helpful Links:
http://www.nhmccd.cc.tx.us/contracts/lrc/kc/decade10.html American Culture History 1910’s
http://www.nhmccd.cc.tx.us/contracts/lrc/kc/decade20.html American Culture History 1920’s
http://www.nhmccd.cc.tx.us/contracts/lrc/kc/decade30.html American Culture History 1930’s
http://www.nhmccd.cc.tx.us/contracts/lrc/kc/decade40.html American Culture History 1940’s
http://www.nhmccd.cc.tx.us/contracts/lrc/kc/decade50.html American Culture History 1950’s
http://www.nhmccd.cc.tx.us/contracts/lrc/kc/decade60.html American Culture History 1960’s
http://www.nhmccd.cc.tx.us/contracts/lrc/kc/decade70.html American Culture History 1970’s
http://www.nhmccd.cc.tx.us/contracts/lrc/kc/decade80.html American Culture History 1980’s
Links to Girl Scout History & Collectibles Sites: Lots of links to help you
learn more about Girl Scout history.