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The Daring Book for GirlsDaring Book for Girls Girl Guide Challenge

The Daring Book for Girls Girl Guide Challenge booklet teaches several new skills—from how to tie a sari and build a tool kit to distinguishing animal tracks while hiking trails. This booklet contains activities that will appeal to girls of all ages. Completing the challenge is about pursuing personal goals and gaining new experiences, all while having fun. Everyone who completes the challenge is eligible for the Daring Girl badge available in Guide stores across Canada.

The Daring Book for Girls Girl Guide Challenge booklet is no longer available. The pdf version can be downloaded here.

Owl to Owl

Owl to Owl: a Resource for New Brownie Leaders is a website that very simply passes along idea and tip for new and experienced Brownie leaders. This website covers theme meetings, camps, crafts, songs, resources, and tip for maintaining your sanity.

The GuideZone

The GuideZone is a massive site with many useful catagories. Catagories include: crafts, history, mascots, program, songs, and skits.

Becky's (or Dragon's) Guiding Resource Centre

Becky's (or Dragon's) Guiding Resource Centre is another huge website that collects various ideas for games, camping, songs, recipes, meetings, events, and other program ideas.

Girl Guides, Girl Greatness!

Girl Guides, Girl Greatness! is a contest running until February 24th where girls can win a $300 shopping spree and a Girl Guides prize pack that includes a mini-backpack, purse, a pen & notebook, a cookie keychain, poppy puppy plush toy, a t-shirt and of course, bracelets. Girls have to send a "Girl Greatness" statement to three gal pals and they could win!

Music

Step Into Singing

Step Into Singing is a basic song list which fulfills two main purposes: to give new Guiders and new Units a starting place for learning Girl Guide songs, and to develope a common repertoire across Canada so that girls attending events will experience the feeling of sisterhood that results from being able to sing the same songs.

Sing Along With Me

Sing Along With Me: A collection of Traditional Guide, Scout, and Campfire Songs is a website that provides lyrics and music (midi files) for a number of familar and not so familiar songs used in Guiding.

Guiding Songs..

Guiding Songs...how they sound and where to find them is another website that provides music in mp3 format to assist Guiders in using various guide songbooks and other resource materials. Songs can be found in the alphabetical listing or by browsing through the catagories. No lyrics are provided on this page.

Guiding Songs BC Girl Guides: Guiding Songs

BC Girl Guides: Guiding Songs is another website that provides the music and lyrics for Guiding songs that are used through out BC. Music is provided in a .wav format.

Camping and Outdoors

Trails CanadaTrails Canada

Trails Canada is a website that provides information on various trails in Canada. There is also a very useful search to help find useful trails.

Animated knots for Scouts and Guides

Get Knotted! Animated Knots for Scouts is a website that provides animated movement for making 15 popular knots. Each knot's page also includes information on how to use the knot, ways to remember how to tie the knot and tips to using the knot.

Wildlife Viewing: Okanagan RegionWildlife Viewing in BC: Okanagan Region

Wildlife Viewing in BC: Okanagan Region is provided by the BC Provincial Government and it supplies a very useful downloadable pdf file on the various parks and wildlife in the South Okanagan an dSimilkameen area.

Wildlife Viewing: Respecting and Protecting Wildlife

Wildlife Viewing: Respecting and Protecting Wildlife is a pdf file that gives good information for observing BC wildlife and how to view them in a respectable way.

Wildlife Viewing: Respecting and Protecting

Wildlife Viewing: Respecting and Protecting is similar to the above link, but it describes what the code of ethics, laws, and penaties surround provincial parks. It also tells park users how they can be more respectful to the environment.

Service Project Ideas

Project PorchlightProject Porchlight

Project Porchlight is a project aiming to change at least one light bulb to a compact florescent light bulb and to increase energy conservation.

Knit for Diabetes

Ask area council lmembers for information on knitting scarves for a fund raising initiative for the Canadian Diabetes Association's diabetes research and education programs.

Administration

The GuideZone

The GuideZone is a massive site with many useful catagories. Catagories include: crafts, history, mascots, program, songs, and skits. There are also many useful ideas for administrative ideas.

 

Technology

Media AwarenessMedia Awareness for Girl Guides

Media Awareness for Girl Guides is a site that outlines how to teach media awareness to all branches of Girl Guides.