How to Earn the Light Blue Daisy Girl Scout Petal-Honest and Fair

mommymommymommy | Mar 6, 2010 |

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Earning the light blue Daisy Petal, Honest and Fair, is not one that can be taught to your troop with a craft; you need to do hands-on activities. Your Daisy Scouts are young. Five and six year old children are concrete learners, they need to "see" what fair is.

One activity you can do to earn this petal is to take a pile of clip art paper apples, place them on the table, and ask them how they could divide them fairly (make sure the amount you print is even so every girl gets the same amount). Talk about what would be fair and unfair and what that means.

The girls can strategize and figure out how to do it on their own. Once they do this successfully, put the apples back in the pile and take away a few to make the number uneven. Repeat the activity and see what the girls figure out (my troop decided to rip up the extras and share them).

Another activity you can do is to play a game called "Fair and Unfair". You can make your own fair and unfair spinners and put the girls into groups according to how many spaces you have on the spinners. Each girl picks a number to be and keeps track of how many times it landed on her number (a volunteer or two can help with this). The girls spin for ten turns and then compare the results. Was it a fair game? Why not?

For honesty, you can talk about "Honest Abe" Lincoln or George Washington and the story of the cherry tree. There are some wonderful children's biographies to read to your girls about these men. Ask the girls why it is important to be honest. What happens when you lie? What happens when trust is broken?

Using these hands on activities, you will be able to help your troop earn the light blue Daisy petal, honest and fair.