Resources

Important Ceremonies in Girl Scouting- taken from an old Girl Scout Book!

Ceremonies in Girl Scouting, including planning worksheet

Short and Snappy Ceremonies

Flag Ceremony Highlights - by Christine Olson

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Agenda

Introductions and Welcome

• Meet Christine, what Christine needs to be her best!

• Meet Participants

• What you'd like to get out of today?

How I start a meeting with Songs:

• I’ve got that Girl Scout Spirit

• Head and Shoulders

Practice Flag Ceremony with Highlights Handout

Daylight Taps, by Lady Baden Powell

Thanks and praise / For our days
'Neath the sun / 'Neath the stars / 'Neath the sky
As we go / This we know / God* is nigh

Review Kinds of Girl Scout Ceremonies

• Bridging / Fly-Up

• Flag Ceremonies

• Founder’s Day / Juliette Gordon Low Birthday

• Girl Scout Birthday (March 12)

• Opening, Closing, Retiring

• Investiture, Rededication

• Award Ceremonies

  1. Highest Awards (B/S/G)

  2. Journey

  3. Court of Awards

  4. Pinning

• Scouts’ Own - Topic (Never religious)
  

Value of Singing!
Opportunity for enthusiasm, breaking out of the shell

Tools: Throat Coat. Water Bottle

Song Leading Rules:

• “Everyone sing it Nobody’s Way”

• There is “no right way to sing it”

• Different versions in every region

Scouts’ Own Ceremony

• Theme - A Sister to Every Girl Scout

• Decorate, Plan, Do -- Silent In, Silent Out

• Poems, Songs, Quotes

• Girl Scouts Together

Songbook List for 2020 VIVE

1. Girl Scout Spirit

2. Head and Shoulders

3. Announcements

4. Boom Chick Boom

5. I've Got that Girl Scout

6. I'm Glad I am A Girl Scout

7. When'ere You Make A Promise

8. O! How Lovely Is The Evening

9. Don't Wear No Socks

10. Going to Kentucky

11. Little Sally Walker

12. I Wish I Were a Little Bar of Soap

13. Sippin' Cider

14. Littlest Worm

15. Banana Slug

Songbook List for 2019 Northern Lights

1. Head, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes

2. Banana Slug

3. Grace: Hark to the Chimes

4. Grace: Bless our Food (Make New Friends)

5. Grace: ‘Neath These Tall Green Trees

6. Going to Kentucky

7. Girl Scout Spirit

8. A Pizza Hut

9. Johnny ver Beck

10. I Love the Mountains

11. O! How Lovely is the Evening

12. Whene’re You Make a Promise

13. Girl Scouts Together

14. Linger

15. Walk, Shepherdess, Walk

16. White Coral Bells

17. My Mamma Don’t Wear No Socks