International Activities
World Centre Activities- World Centres Fruit Salad - Are you looking for a great activity to help your Spark or Brownie Unit learn the names of the four World Centres? Try World Centre Fruit Salad. Have everyone sit in a circle. Assign everyone the name of a World Centre. When you call out the name of a World Centre everyone who is that centre switches places with someone of the same World Centre. You can increase the challenge of this game for Guides and Pathfinders by calling out a World Centre Fact such as the country the World Centre is located in or a food or craft from that country instead of the name of the World Centre itself.
- Virtual Tour of the World Centres - Organize and hold a World Centres Tour to help your girls learn about. Make a passport for your virtual tour. Organize four stations, one for each World Centre. Have activities at each World Centre including international food, people who have visited the world centres, and games. Stamp the passports of each girl who visits the World Centre station. This is a great activity to learn about the World Centres!
- World Centres Participation Story (PDF)
- Check out these great ideas from Manitoba to help girls learn about the World Centres at the end of their WAGGGS package (PDF)
- World Centre Quiz/Game (PDF)
- World Centres Slap - Tape pictures of each of the World Centres on the wall at the front of the room. Split the girls into two to four teams. Read out one of the statements about the World Centres. The first girl in each of the lines should run up to the front of the room and slap the correct answer, then run back to her team.
Zoe's Trek Around the World (National Challenge)
Beijing (China) – Auckland (New Zealand) – Nairobi (Kenya) – Paris (France) – Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) – Port of Spain (Trinidad)!
Travel the world and take part in a variety of international program related activities as you complete this National Challenge with your unit. Check out this Challenge on the National Website for more information and Challenge activities.
Resources for Travelers
International ResourcesFor more international resources and program ideas including International Program Activity packages by branch, visit the International section of the National website.
Additional International Resources and activities can also be found on the The International Committee in Manitoba has developed some terrific International Resources including: Check out the World of Ideas package (PDF) for some great International activities.
Check out this website for information on Guiding in other countries and pictures of uniforms from other countries.
Guiding History Pictogram (PDF)
Taking Your Brownies camping this year? Do you want to incorporate international into your plans? Check out this Camp in a Box from BC Council. It could be easily modified for Sparks as well.
Brownie Magic Around the World
Save Your Pennies for the World Friendship FundFunds collected by the Canadian Friendship Fund are used to support Guiding mutual aid projects in other member countries and are also used at time of natural disaster to assist member countries in times of need, to support the World Centres, and to assist Canadian girls to visit the World Centres.
Here are some ideas to help you and your unit collect funds for the Canadian Friendship Fund. - Have each girl make and decorate a friendship fund bank to collect her pennies in.
- Encourage the girls to do good deeds for friends and family members for donations towards the Friendship Fund.
- Hold a "Box Social" and auction off boxes containing a picnic lunch – Ask an auctionner to volunteer their time to help.
- Each Circle or Patrol can collect pennies from different years – perhaps as a competition.
- Fine adults and girls who are late for meetings for the month of February. Fines are donated to the Canada World Friendship Fund
- An International potluck supper with dishes from other countries was held with Mothers invited. A charge of $0.05 per scoop was collected for Thinking Day.
- Makes a collecting funds for the Canadian World Friendship Fund a year round effort through the use of "International Dolls" made into banks. Use plastic soap bottles, etc. and dress in a native costume using scrap material, wool etc. Empty the bank once a month or in February.
- After Christmas the outline of the smallest Brownie was traced onto a large piece of paper. Pennies were glued to form the details of her uniform and to trace her outline.
- A hollow Brownie Toadstool was made of paper maché and filled with pennies.
- A map of the world was drawn and chains of pennies connected countries.
- Send something to a fellow Guider and ask them to make a donation to the WFF in lieu of paying you.
- Create a calendar where you "donate" a certain number of pennies each day for a month based on what you have For example: 5 cents for each bathroom in your house, 1 cent for each window in your home, 3 cents for each pair of shoes you own etc.
International GamesGames from Honduras - Honduras Star Relay - Make equal teams of 4 to 6 girls (3 - 4 teams works well). Have them stand in a straight line facing the middle (like a star). There is a ball in the middle of the star. When you blow the whistle the girl in the back of the line runs around the outside of all of the star spikes. When the get back to their group, they have to crawl through the legs of all of the girls (in their group) who are standing with their legs apart and their arms outstretched (like a starfish) and collect the ball in the middle of the star. The first girl to get there gets a point for their team. The girl that ran is now at the front of the line and the game continues.
- El Reioj - El Reioj (reh-LOH) means clock. You need a rope about 5 metres long. Twelve players form a circle. They are the NUMBERS on the clock. A thirteenth player stands in the middle and holds the rope. This player acts as the clock's HAND. On the count of twelve, the middle player slowly begins to sweep the rope around the clock. The 'numbers' jump over the rope and shout out their number (in Spanish). Each time the HAND makes a complete turn of the clock it starts moving faster. Players who touch or stop the rope are out of the game. The last person left is the winner. This website contains pronounciation and information on how to count to 12 in Spanish.
- Chapete – (Players 9 years and older). A large area is needed and either a hacky sack ball or home made ball a little smaller than your fist. A ball can be made from a tough, pliable fabric filled with dried beans, sand or rice. Players form a circle and stand not too close together. Play begins when the ball is tossed up. Players take turns bouncing it off their body parts. Players are allowed to use any body part but their hands. The object is to keep the ball from hitting the ground for as long as possible - while trying hard not to fall, crash into or kick a team mate.
Check out this great link for a variety of International games or this website. International Guiding Passport - Honduras (PDF) Recipes from Honduras (PDF)
International Word Searches
Print out these word searches with an International theme for the girls in your unit when you need a quick activity for them to do.
Dominica Twinning Challenge“Twinning” is when a Member Organization (MO) of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) forges a partnership with another MO to share friendship, skills, support and to learn about each other’s country and culture and how Girl Guiding/Girl Scouting is delivered in each country.
The GGC Dominica Twinning Project has its objective to help to expand and strengthen the Guiding movement in Dominica. By taking part in this project, Members of Girl Guides of Canada will learn about the country of Dominica, its culture, customs, language and many other interesting facts. They will also learn about Girl Guiding in Dominica and the similarities and differences with Guiding in Canada.
Check out the Twinning Challenges and learn more about Guiding in Dominica on the National website.
Promoting International TripsOpportunities are available each year for girls from PEI to travel internationally. Anyone who is interested should apply. Financial support is always available from PEI Council, districts and units, and through fund raising to cover the cost of the trip. Do you want to encourage your girls to travel internationally? Invite a member of the International Committee to your unit to give a presentation, play international games and activities and just excite your girls about international opportunities.
Learning About WAGGGSLearn more about WAGGGS and have fun doing it!
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