1st Nettlebed Brownies
January to Easter 2002
This has been a short but packed term of activities. We have enjoyed playing games, old favourites and new ones, putting on a pantomime Horrid Hansel and Ghastly Gretel, which the parents thoroughly enjoyed especially being showered with sweets!
We took part in the District Thinking Day celebration at Sonning Common with lots of other Brownies.
As part of Doves adult leadership training, we enjoyed an American evening, making friendship pencils, flags, smoothes, eating Brownies and best not to mention the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches!
This term Tawny Owl worked on the Conservation badge with them, while Barn Owl, and Snowy Owl led a Mini beasts and Bugs evening, which had us all very creepy crawly by the end of it and covered in spots.
Our last meeting for the term we spent making Easter crafts, which was great fun and very sticky from all the glue and glitter, combined with chocolate! Not surprising since we made Easter cards, Easter egg trees, painted eggs, egg nests, egg sun catchers and glittery Faberge eggs.
After Easter we plan to make the most of the lighter evenings and get outside as much as we can, with a dads and daughters bike ride, sports evening, Jubilee celebration, Ready Steady Don't Cook evening, not forgetting Brown Owls 2 mile run from Nettlebed to Bix for much needed funds. Our plans for our sleepover on HMS Belfast are coming together very well- we are all looking out our most comfortable pairs of trainers so that we can make the most of our stay in London.
We have said goodbye to some of our Brownies, two who have moved away and one because she is too old, (but looking forward to going to Scouts), so after Easter we will welcome some new faces into our Pack from our waiting list.
September to Christmas 2001
This is what Ist Nettlebed Brownies have been doing last Term, and as you can see we have had lots of fun!
We have enjoyed playing lots of games, some old favourites and some new ones. With some of the Brownies who left us in the Summer we enjoyed an indoor campfire, singing lots of familiar songs to remind us of our Pack holidays.
A messy but popular evening was our Fun with Food evening, not all of the delicious food made it home for the family to sample!
For fun we had a back to front evening, which was very different, we even sang Brownie Bells at the beginning of the meeting, and wore uniform back to front or inside out! For our cats evening, we made crafts, played feline games, and at the end of the meeting some of the Brownies brought their much loved pet cats in.
Rachel organised a Spectacular challenges evening, which the Brownies thoroughly enjoyed, especially the face painting.
We also bobbed for apples, as you can see from this picture:
A Nature evening was organised by Hannah, and this time it was for real, this has counted towards the Adventure Out badge which we are working hard on. As was our Mothers and daughters Night walk, which was good fun especially as we ended up at Pippas house for hot chocolate and biscuits galore!
Our Popstars evening was a very glamorous evening, we have lots of very talented Brownies who sang, and danced, all thanks to the Pack leaders and young leaders who co ordinated the meeting.
No year would be complete without the glue and the glitter coming out in abundance for a Christmas crafts evening to get us into the mood for the festivities.
All the Brownies got together at Sonning Common for an evening of carol singing, where each Unit put on a short entertainment.
The first Sunday in December the Brownies came to my house to decorate a tree in my garden, national Tree Dressing Weekend, this was also part of the Adventure Out badge.
The tree sparkled night and day with lights, tinsel, lametta, baubles, glitter and lots of tree decorations.
For our Christmas Good Turn this year, the Brownies donated tea, coffee, soup, biscuits, sugar and other dry ingredients to make hot drinks for the "Porch" in Oxford, a project for the Homeless.
In the Christmas holidays 21 of us went to see Cinderella at the Kenton theatre, which was a thoroughly entertaining afternoon at a very traditional pantomime.
We are now getting ready for the new Term ahead, and even thinking about our Wind in The Willows Camping Pack holiday! Our term ahead looks like being very busy, with new Brownies to welcome, "Horrid Hansel and Ghastly Gretel" to rehearse and perform, Thinking Day and international themes to enjoy, the Adventure Out Badge to finish with a sleepover possibly on board HMS Belfast, Conservation badge to work on, a Bugs and Mini Beasts evening with lots of creepy crawlies to look forward to, which will bring us up to Easter.
We will also be updating our six pages, so look out for more information. If your daughter is interested in joining Brownies please make sure that her name is on my waiting list, we are a full pack and places are hard to come by.