Outdoors in the City

As our final outing for the school year, the troop headed to Washington Park to earn their Outdoors in the City badge. Only the girls that have decided to remain with the troop for another year joined in the activity. We will miss the other 7, but understand time constraints can make demands on activity options. The troop had a great evening. The girls enjoyed a picnic dinner and discussed the abundance of outdoor activities they could enjoy this summer in Springfield. After dinner the girls walked around the park picking up trash.

Enjoying a break after our hike in the woods

Feeding bread to the many ducks

Enjoying the park's playground

Girl Scout cookies make the best snack!

To complete the badge work, each girl took home some flowers to plant as well as the bags of tea to make sun tea.

Horse Fan

On Saturday, March 26, the troop visited Riverside Stables for some horsing around fun. The girls learned a lot about horses and completed several activites for the Girl Scout Horse Fan badge. Each gril was able to ride a horse, groom and feed a horse, assist in putting on a saddle and cleaning the horse's hoof. A lot of exclamations was heard about horse riding lessons and horse camp. In all a great time was had by all.

Enjoying the horses

Learning about the contents of a tack box

Learning about a horse's markings

The girls also enjoyed playing with the stable's many cats

Cookie Booth

Om Sumday, March 13, the Troop hosted a cookie both at the local Lowe's store. It was a very successful day in that the girls sold over 230 boxes of cookies in a 4-hour time span. The girls are quite the cookie-sellers!

Angela, Mati and Zoe are ready to greet their customers Alexis and Natalie show off their favorites

Nina and Anneliese take their turn

Anneliese, Amanda and Nina give the thumbs up on selling cookies

Cookie Time

On March 7, the Girl Scout cookies arrived. The troop as a whole sold 147 cases of cookies, including 10 cases of Operation Cookie Share. That's a lot of cases to be picked up, sorted and delivered. The top selling cookie for the troop was the Caramel DeLites.

Cases of cookies waiting to be sorted

Sorted cookies waiting to be picked up for customer delivery

From the Heart

Angela and Anneliese joined the Council for an afternoon of Valentine fun. They joined other Junior Girl Scouts, Brownies and Daisies in making Valentine cards, decorating Valentine containers and decorating Valentine cookies.

Finished cards

Our Junior girls adopted a Daisy Scout for the afternoon and helped her complete her projects. Here they are showing off their decorated cans. Great job girls!