Brownie Elf Paper Dolls and Rationing Water Activity

At tonight's Girl Scout meeting, the girls made Brownie Elf paper dolls from the Wow! Wonders of Water Journey series.  Since this is a multilevel troop with only 5 girls, I had all of the girls do the activities, even though they were more aimed at the Brownies.

All of the girls were very creative with their designs of their paper doll outfits.  A couple of the girls even made uniforms for them!  My daughter's favorite color is purple, so she used purple in most of her paper dolls outfits, as you can see above.

We also did an activity to discuss rationing water and what it is like in some third world countries.  I cut out 10 drops of "water" to represent buckets of water.  I asked them to imagine that they lived in an area where water is not as plentiful or accessible and how many even need to walk for miles to retrieve baskets/buckets of water.

I had them sort out their water buckets into 3 categories:  food, hygiene, and cleaning.  Most of the girls were in agreement that the majority of the water in a given week would be used for drinking or food preparation.  Then, came hygiene ranging from 1 through 4 buckets of water for the week.  We discussed how people can even take a "spit shower" by just cleaning hands, armpits, etc.  Every girl only gave the cleaning category 1 or 2 buckets of water for the week.

We then did a reflection on this activity.  The girls were on-task for the most part.  This was our first reflection, so it went well, considering.

Thanks for reading!

~Vanessa