This year for Remembrance day we learned about how Girl Guides contributed to the war effort, and we made poppies. The Dad of one of our Brownies is in the Army, so he came and spoke briefly about what he does and why he joined the Army. For some of the Brownies this was their first time seeing a soldier in "real life" (through a computer screen), and I think it helped them better understand what remembrance day is all about.
Next we moved on to what Girl Guides did during the wars. I showed them some pictures of Girl Guides doing first aid, handing out clothing to displaced families, making supplies for soldiers, and acting as messengers. I took the photos from this blog post and put them into a slideshow: https://owl-and-toadstool.blogspot.com/search?q=remembrance+day. When we were looking at the photo of the air ambulance I asked the Brownies how much they thought an airplane costs, and one of them said "Probably a lot, like twenty dollars!".
Finally we moved on to our craft. My co-Guider came up with the idea to make poppies out of yarn and pop tabs, since we already have a lot of those and wouldn't need to buy anything (she delivered packages of supplies before the meeting). This is what we made:
I don't really have any instructions to link to, but basically what you do is you wrap (or knot) the yarn around each pop tab, and then secure them together with pipe cleaners. I knotted the yarn on mine, but a lot of the Brownies chose just to wrap theirs. This is definitely a craft that they start at the meeting and then take home to work on later, as even I did not finish it during our meeting. One tip I have is to wrap tape around the end of the yarn, as it started to fray and get fuzzy after going through the holes of the pop tab a few times.
that's all for this week! I'm planning next week's meeting so I should really get started on that.
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