Brownies WOW! Wonders of Water & Daisies Make the World a Better Place TAP

At last night's meeting, we wrapped up the Brownies' WOW! Wonders of Water Take Action Project and combined that activity with the Daisy petal Make the World a Better Place.  For this service project, they decided to clean up litter at the drainage field in our neighborhood that the kids call a pond.  It really is a cool wetland/drainage field.

I had the girls carry three bags:  one for recycling, one for garbage, and one to cover their hands to pick up icky stuff.  Some neighbor boys came down to the pond as we were almost done, as they were curious what we were doing.  The girls educated them about what we were doing and why.  We came back to reflect on what we did and who would benefit from beautifying our local "wetland."

In two years, when the Daisies are Brownies, I would like to do water quality testing on the pond, if we can afford it.  I think that taking care of this local example of a wetland brings home the ideas that they learned about this year while completing this journey.  I will also price Earth Day badges, as the whole troop participated and they discussed other things that they learned about taking care of the environment from learning about it at school.

Thanks for reading!

 ~Vanessa