Hello, fabulous sisterhood of Guiders! It’s Dragonfruit here, aka Guider Andi with 26th Orleans Guides, aka Andrea Drajewicz, with a little update about this wonderful and hugely underutilized resource known as the Ottawa Girl Guide Resource Library. Since March of 2019, Lynn has worked hard to bring this library to life and keep it running, …
Heading to Kingston?
Guider Elisha Hardwick in Kingston is a fantastic resource, both for her experience and her awesome lending library! She has the following amazing items for lend – but you have to make arrangements to get them from her in Kingston, and return them within a reasonable time. TIP: Lots of guiders in the Ottawa area …
Guide-Level Escape Rooms
I have a Guide-level unit, and we’ve really enjoyed the three Guiding History escape rooms created by Elisha Hardwick. These are fully printable escape rooms – you won’t need things like locks or boxes. Since there’s no equipment, you don’t have to run the escape room in small groups sequentially – you can break a …
Harry Potter Night
Every guide unit seems to have a Harry Potter night or camp, at least once every couple of years. Harry Potter never gets old or boring – and there are so many things you can do with the theme! Here are a few ideas we used at our Harry Potter night. Please comment with your …
Percy Jackson Night
We had a really successful meeting with our Guide level unit last week – a Percy Jackson theme night. Percy Jackson is the star of the Lightning Thief series of books by Rick Riordan, that feature lots of action, fun, and info about the Greek Gods. Only about a quarter of our girls had read …
Sharing is Caring
My son and older daughter spent some time in Scouts here in Ottawa. It always made sense to me that the local scout groups share their resources in a common location. All their camp gear, along with supplies for outdoor games, fire starting equipment, wagons, large signage, promotional material – it’s all sitting in a …