Four speakers as Daisy, Brownie, Junior and
Leader
Signal everyone around the fire for silence.
Speakers enter one at a time carrying their
item.
Daisy: I am the spirit of a Daisy and I bring
the tinder that will start our campfire.
Brownie: I am the spirit of a Brownie and I
bring kindling to help the campfire grow.
Junior: I am the spirit of a Junior and I
bring wood to keep the campfire burning strong.
Leader: I am the spirit of a Leader and I
bring the flame to help the tinder, kindling and wood build a beautiful campfire.
All: We need the spirit of the Daisy, the
Brownie, the Junior and the Leader to build a campfire that burns bright forever.
Wishing Pot Ceremony
Everyone
is given a small piece of paper and a pencil, and asked to write down her wish. This can
be a wish for someone who is leaving, a wish for her own future, a wish for the troop.
Wishes are private. No one knows the wish except the person who writes it. When a girl is
through writing, she folds her paper to seal in the wish.
The wishes
are collected and placed in the pot, or each girl comes to the pot and throws in her wish.
While the wishes are collected, everyone is told that they must concentrate on their wish,
in absolute silence, until they are put on the fire so that all wishes can be heard and
can come true. When all wishes have been
placed on the fire, form a circle around the fire, hold hands and sing Make New Friends
then do the friendship squeeze.
Variations are to throw wishes into a
campfire (when leader secretly adds a handful of coffee creamer to make a "poof"
or sugar to create colored flames)
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