Reminder: Dues are $1 per meeting. We are asking that the girls bring their dues in their dues holder to every meeting. We do have some girls that owe for previous meetings.

Please remind the girls to also wear their Brownie sash to all Brownie activities, including meetings.

Brownie Bucks earned are recorded at each meeting with a gift choice about every other month.

Optional Calendar Sales are taking place now. If any girls would like to sell calendar(s) to earn a patch, please contact Carol or Liz. Calendars are $2 each. Only one sold calendar is required to earn the calendar patch.

Other fundraising activities that we are participating in are optional nuts & candy sales in early February and Home Interior candles in late March.

We have included all important information on our troop website. Please check it out!!

We starting our meeting by choosing our Kaper Chart duties. We then recited the Girl Scout law and the Girl Scout Promise and the Pledge of Allegiance.

We began our activities by discussing the next Try-It that we are working on: Safety Sense. We discussed fire safety procedures and escape plans if there was a fire at our Brownie meeting.

We then started our craft of making first aid kits out of film canisters. Braiding the plastic lace started out difficult but the girls pushed right on through. The kits can be clipped on belt loops and backpacks for convenience and emergencey boo-boos.

We also collected more magazines and recipes to finish our troop recipe folders.

We enjoyed cupcakes from Melissa and juice from Meghan.

We ended the meeting with the Girl Scout Squeeze.

The next meeting will be on January 19^th right after school until 4:45.

The Challenger Learning Center has been rescheduled to March 24^th.

Please remind all the girls to bring a recipe and magazine to our next meeting to complete our troop recipe folders.

We are also trying to set up various field trips. We have been thinking about seeing a movie, visit the St. Louis Arch, tour a restaurant and go ice skating. We also have other field trips that the girls may be interested in.

If anyone has any questions or comments, please do not hesitate to call Carol at 768-4603 or Liz at 768-4677.

Thank you,

Carol and Liz