AIR AND SHARE IDEAS
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By Rainbow, Brownie, Guide and Rangers leaders
We regularly hold ‘air and share’ sessions where leaders come together to discuss activities their units have enjoyed, new ideas, trips and promoting Girlguiding. Below you’ll find valuable input from these sessions which all unit leaders may find interesting.
Which activities have you enjoyed recently?
Rainbows
Singing with sign language
Games
Baking
Badges
Crafts (using glitter!)
Talking!
Which activities have you enjoyed recently?
- University of York Scout and Guide Society have run some events in nearby units in Tang Hall, Heworth and Fulford
Can you share some new ideas?
- Hold summer activities that make the use of the outdoors for meetings, badges, walks and UMAs
- New starter forms can be used both electronically and on paper
What trips do you recommend?
- Sleepovers at interesting places like Beamish, Magna and Eureka
- Forbidden Corner
- Sundown Adventure
Brownies
Role reversal night – let the sixers/seconds run the session and the leaders act like Brownies!
Guides & Rangers
Adapting the programme
Girls choose the programme activities to follow
Flextangles – useful for introducing promise activities into the programme
Birdfeeders for the ‘Upcycling’ badge
Can you share some new ideas?
Rainbows
Explore challenge badges
Use Facebook groups for a range of activities
Try patrols
Invite a circus skills visitor
Hold a ‘skipping school’
Brownies
For “Guiding in a Bubble” UMA, use really cheap paper plates and wet them first, then use plastic straws and you should be able to get multiple bubbles!
York and Hull medical students will come and run a Teddy Bear Hospital evening in your unit. Just email teddybearhospital@yusu.org
Plan to hold a skills builder catch up night once a term, if you don’t need it you can run a games night or go for a walk instead!
Invite parents or other volunteers to your unit to talk about their jobs for the ‘Jobs’ interest badge. You could also ask them to write a job description for a leader!
Guides & Rangers
Reintroduce traditional activities alongside the programme, such as sausage sizzles, night hikes and sunrise walks for events!
What trips do you recommend?
Rainbows
Web Adventure
Askham Bryan
Beetle Bank
Your local fire station
Williams Den
Brownies
York University Astro Campus
Chemistry night with the York University Chemistry Outreach team
York Wizard Walk
Askham Bryan
Holgate Windmill
Cold War Bunker
Guides & Rangers
Wellie and Wristbands
York University Astro Campus