The April meeting is our last meeting of the school year, due to a field trip being scheduled the same day as our meeting next month, so it was fun, but bittersweet. Sharon and I have decided to split the troop next year, and we will take the Juniors (4th and 5th grade), and Karianne (who has been helping us at meetings all year), will take the Daisy/Brownie aged kids (K-3rd). Our troop of 18 girls, has become too large for us to work with, and we want to start doing some more mature crafts and field trips with our daughters age group, so we thought this would be a great time to do that. It is really difficult to find drivers for 18 kids, but 8-9 girls would be so much more manageable. We will still do some fun things together with the younger troop, but we are excited to try some new things with a smaller, older group.
Anyways, since we wont meet next month, we thought it would be fun to make our Mother's Day gifts this month instead...so if you are a mom and have a daughter in our troop, please look away now! :)
We purchased these little wooden plaques from Joanns, and the girls got to paint them anyway they wanted for their moms. The creativity and uniqueness of each plaque was wonderful, and the girls really seemed to get into the craft too!
When the plaques were dried, we added a hook eye and cording to hang it with. We sure hope the moms enjoy their colorful gifts!
Happy Early Mother's Day!!!
