This week at Brownies we have made a
start on planning for our pack holiday. The forms have come back, the
hall has been book and I have sorted the time off work.
We like to give the girls some choice
in the decisions surrounding pack holiday as sometimes the girls have different and more awesome ideas then we do. Some of the best ideas we
have had in the past has come as a result of a comment made by a
Brownie. Some of it is still kept secret and most of the activities we keep a secret and the girls don't
know what we are doing until they are about to start or leave the
hall for an activity.
The first thing the girls needed to
decide was the theme of the holiday. Each year we have a different
theme that all the activities are all based on. Leaders, chores and
the girls groups are all named after characters or things associated
with the theme. In previous years we have done chocolate, the Wizard
of Oz, Harry Potter and my personal favourite Disney when I spent a
week being referred to as Mickey Mouse.
We asked the girls for suggestions for
this years theme. Sadly none of the girls fancied doing a Star Wars
or Doctor Who themed holiday which made me sad. The girls came up
with some themed I would never have thought of. In the end it came
down to a choice between Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate
Events (who would have thought!), Roald Dahl or Musicals.
Ultimately the girls chose Musicals.
Which made all the leaders happy as there is normally a lot of singing on
pack holiday anyway! last year the girls were in hysterics as they were out side washing up as they watched the leaders putting their all into belting out the Disney soundtrack! Now that we have a theme we can plan activities
based on Musicals. We may go down the route of have each session
based a different Musical.
So now the hard work begins and we
start the proper planning. We need to plan different crafts for the
girls and organise days out that we can fit around a Musical. Every
year we go swimming in a brilliant swimming pool near camp so does
anyone know of a Musical based in or under water? Now that we know
numbers we can also organise groups, uniform, transport and food. Its
all systems go.
This year theme of Musicals is awesome
and I feel we can work well with it and produce an fantastic holiday
for the girls.
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