A good idea for Daisy trips is to keep it to small, one day activities. Little trips for little kids.
IDEAS:
- Apple Picking: A healthy way to have your Daisies bond and create friendships. Find a nearby orchard and plan a time to have your group travel to the orchard. Select parents to drive to the orchard and preassign cars for the children. Pay for small snacks such as doughnuts and cider. A good idea is to have an older troop from the same district come with you, that way your daisies won't be confused and will have a buddy. The apple picking orchard we travelled to was http://www.outhouseorchards.info/
- Police Station/Fire Department Tour: A great way to teach your Daisy Troop the importance of respecting authority and forces who help your community. Contact the fire department near your community and ask them if they can tour around the fire department. Select cars to drive (parent volunteers) and a time to arrive there with your troop and the fire department. The fire department we travelled to was the Golden's Bridge Fire Department. Contact info here: http://www.goldensbridgefd.org/
- Meal Assembly Store: Stores where you can create food (especially pizza) can achieve a path towards responsibility. We contacted a place that ran out of business, however you can contact any pizza place or ice cream place and ask if you can have a tour and make your own pizza/ice cream sundays!
- Workshops: These make excellent Daisy activities. Many older troops run them as fundraisers, so they are usually relatively inexpensive to attend. Keep an eye out for their flyers. If there are any nature reserves near you, most will offer survival workshops.
- Daisy Daddy Day: This was a council sponsored event but you could make your own event. Invite the dads and their daughters to go on a hike together at a local park like Ward Pound Ridge. Have a short craft projects and make a wind sock. Use a piece of card stock as the center disk and get 10 different colored ribbons, one to represent each of the Daisy petals. Tie the ribbons around the edge of the disk and tie a string to hang it from a hook and let it blow in the wind. The Dads and Daisies can do this together.
IDEAS:
- Apple Picking: A healthy way to have your Daisies bond and create friendships. Find a nearby orchard and plan a time to have your group travel to the orchard. Select parents to drive to the orchard and preassign cars for the children. Pay for small snacks such as doughnuts and cider. A good idea is to have an older troop from the same district come with you, that way your daisies won't be confused and will have a buddy. The apple picking orchard we travelled to was http://www.outhouseorchards.info/
- Police Station/Fire Department Tour: A great way to teach your Daisy Troop the importance of respecting authority and forces who help your community. Contact the fire department near your community and ask them if they can tour around the fire department. Select cars to drive (parent volunteers) and a time to arrive there with your troop and the fire department. The fire department we travelled to was the Golden's Bridge Fire Department. Contact info here: http://www.goldensbridgefd.org/
- Meal Assembly Store: Stores where you can create food (especially pizza) can achieve a path towards responsibility. We contacted a place that ran out of business, however you can contact any pizza place or ice cream place and ask if you can have a tour and make your own pizza/ice cream sundays!
- Workshops: These make excellent Daisy activities. Many older troops run them as fundraisers, so they are usually relatively inexpensive to attend. Keep an eye out for their flyers. If there are any nature reserves near you, most will offer survival workshops.
- Daisy Daddy Day: This was a council sponsored event but you could make your own event. Invite the dads and their daughters to go on a hike together at a local park like Ward Pound Ridge. Have a short craft projects and make a wind sock. Use a piece of card stock as the center disk and get 10 different colored ribbons, one to represent each of the Daisy petals. Tie the ribbons around the edge of the disk and tie a string to hang it from a hook and let it blow in the wind. The Dads and Daisies can do this together.