Arts & Crafts with the Brownies

Each week, I spend 2 hours with the Brownies at my school. The Brownies are a part of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGS). The students age from 8-11, 3rd to 6th grade.

My host mom is the girl guide for the group and asked me to be in charge of arts and crafts.  The first meeting I attended was in November. We made a picture out of color sand, beans and glue. Guess what I made?

The next meeting, I showed them how to make dream catchers using circles cut from cardboard, yarn, and feathers made out of paper. I forgot to buy beads, but the girls had fun making them.

I am trying to increase the girls creativity level. You don't have to use scissors and construction paper all of the time. So we painted pods from the shak shak tree behind the school.

There was a Brownies Camp during the spring break, so I taught the girls how to crochet bracelets. I started when I was 19 or 20 and absolutely love it. Only 3 of the girls learned how to do it, while the others just braided their bracelets. One of the girls made a headband with some left over yarn that a few girls weren't using. 

For the next 3-4 meetings, I will be teaching them how to draw. Some of them have told me that they don't know how to draw, so I want to fulfill that need for them. I know how to doodle (mainly when I'm bored), so I'm learning how to draw by watching Youtube videos. I will blog about how it goes next month.