The Brownie B Patches

A Potpourri of Ideas: A Resource Packet for Leaders Riverland Girl Scout Council, Inc. Resource Packet #1 February 21, 1983

The three Brownie Bs are: Be a Discoverer Be a Ready Helper Be a Friend-Maker Each of the Bs can be done in the Worlds to Explore. The World of Arts The World of People The World of Well-Being The World of Out-of-Doors The World of Today and Tomorrow The pie-shaped patches are earned, one each year, by participating in Brownie B patch activities. The one in the center is yellow and is awarded the rst year. The left is red for the second year, and the right is blue for the third year. (Therefore, if a new girl joins your troop in the second year, she will earn a yellow patch while the veterans earn a red patch.) The patches are NOT intended to be competitive or to indicate mastery of skills. They are to encourage well-rounded troop program and to ensure that each girl dabbles in all of the Brownie Bs and the Worlds. So, to earn the patch, each girl must participate in 12 activities, and these 12 activities must include at least one activity from each B and one from each World. Many activities can be found in the Worlds to Explore Handbook, pages 62-27, and in the Moreabouts for Brownie Leaders, pages 14-18. Your girls may make up their own, too! Example: Be a Ready Helper, World of Art Make a mural or drawing to brighten the walls of a senior citizens center. Be a Ready Helper, World of Today and Tomorrow Find out about rust.

Brownie Helps
Run, Colors, Run From: Moreabouts (World of Art) Brownies use color accidents to learn about abstraction in art. You need: Colored poster paints, including black Metal tray or cookie sheet Colored tissue paper Newspapers to cover work area

1. Pour several colors of not-too-runny paint onto the tray in separate puddles of various sizes. Do not cover the entire bottom of the tray with color. 2. Give each Brownies a piece of colored tissue paper and have each, in turn, place her piece over the colored areas and press it down. If colors become weak or all mixed together during the process, they will need to be replenished. 3. When the paint on the papers is dry, give each Brownie one of the papers. Also give each girl a brush and some black paint (or a piece of dark chalk). 4. Have Brownies look at the color areas, turning the papers in all directions to nd a picture of real or imagined objects in the color areas. Then they can outline the picture with the brush or chalk.

VARIATION Place two or three puddles of thin color on a piece of paper. Let Brownies blow on the paints gently through a straw and watch owers and rockets appear.

Scribble Search You need: Colored crayons, including black Large sheets of paper

1. Give each Brownie a dark crayon and a piece of paper and tell her to scribble on the paper. 2. Each Brownie looks at her scribble from all directions and lls in each space with color. You might then have an art exhibit with the scribbles displayed.

Find Out About Rust Rust can ruin many different things. Help nd places where rust damage is starting. Look around your house and neighborhood to see what kinds of materials will rust. Rust is a powdery, reddish brown chemical called iron oxide. It is formed when oxygen joins with iron. Since there is oxygen in the air, iron that is in the air without any protection will start to rust, especially if it is in a place where rain or snow or even damp air can touch it. That is because water makes things rust faster. If the iron is covered with oil or paint, air will not touch the metal and rusting will stop or slow down. You can do your own experiment to see how rust forms and how it can be stopped. Materials needed: Four iron nails Four plastic can tops Petroleum jelly House paint

1. Coat one nail with petroleum jelly and one nail with paint. 2. Leave the other two nails pain. 3. Put one nail on each plastic cover. 4. Sprinkle water on the painted one, the jelly covered one, and one of the plain ones. Leave the fourth nail alone. 5. Check every few days or once a week to see if rust is forming. 6. Decide which rusted the most and which