Title: How does your garden grow?
Duration: 90 minutes
Badge/Patch Correlations: Daisy Flower Garden Journey Watering Can Award
Description: This session helps Daisy Scouts learn to “use resources wisely” and “make the world a better place”, ideas stressed in the Girl Scout Law. After learning how worms can be used to create compost for growing flowers, girls will create some unique garden crafts to take home.
Activities:
- Observe worms up close and learn how they can help make compost
- Decorate a seedling pot made from recycled materials
- Create a mini-garden
Title: Time for Turtles
Duration: 90 minutes
Badge/Patch Correlations: Five Flowers, Four Stories, Three Cheers for Animals Journey Birdbath Award
Description: After learning about the adaptations turtles have that help them survive and what makes these endearing creatures different from many other animals, girls will meet one the MEC’s resident turtles and learn what we do to take care of it.
Activities:
- Visit several learning centers to investigate the adaptations turtles have
- Meet a diamondback terrapin, a turtle that lives in the salt marshes of the New Jersey Meadowlands
- Learn how to care for turtles
- Create an animal flipbook to take home
Title: Tree Treasures
Duration: 90 minutes
Badge/Patch Correlations: Between Earth and Sky Journey The Clover Award
Description: Though they’re easy to take for granted, trees provide countless benefits to nature in general, not to mention humans specifically. After learning about some of the benefits that all trees provide, Daisies will investigate the many ways trees are different, from the color and texture of their bark to the shape and size of their seeds.
Activities:
- Learn about ways trees help animals survive
- Take a short hike to investigate the bark of several different trees
- Make a tree craft to take home
Note: We can offer suggestions for the Daisy Clover Project that can be done right here in DeKorte Park. Just ask!