World Thinking Day

This year, as Juliettes, we didn't host a booth at the World Thinking Day event with our Service Unit. We still wanted to participate, though. We signed up with the Girl Scout Swaps group on Facebook again. My daughter chose Jordan and I chose Germany. Normally we only sign up for one swap, but we did 2 this time thinking we would get a better variety back. (There were over 75 signups) We will log them in a keepsake passport just like we would if it was an event we attended.

Jordan swap

I downloaded these super cute country cards to insert into our keepsake passport from the making friends website. These people are awesome for making these and offering them to us for free. We bought the coiless safety pins and hopefully trapped the beads with the postcard and flag tag that is also on their site. (Maybe the beads will be slower to fall off when the pin is opened) For the Germany swap I tried something I've never done before... polimer clay! It was fun to make little pretzels, but I had to fool with the baking temp and rebake and rebake and rebake. Thankfully according to most sources you can't overbake it, and if you cover it while its baking the color shouldn't change and it wont burn. It's supposed to feel rubbery when it is done. I added the flag and postcard and called it done! 

Germany swap

I am actually trying to make time to sew up a banner for the swaps that we get as well. Anybody who has checked out anything Girl Scout related on Pinterest has probably seen the swap banners and I bought some Daisy blue and Brownie brown canvas along with some iron on letters to make a couple of them. I will probably do this year's (brown) first, because she really only got the ones for thinking day last year, and they are still on the lanyard that they handed out...

We still attended the World Thinking Day event with our Service Unit. 

Funny story: I got a text 8 days before the event asking me if I wanted to do a booth. (by ourselves, in 8 days, ha, ha, ha, ha...) Yeah, Sweden. 

The troops that host a booth have to make 150 swaps and 300 food samples from the country they are assigned to. We had a ball doing Australia with her Daisy troop last year, but it was an insane amount of work! 

I'm such a people-pleaser, I almost said yes, but then my common-sense kicked in as I tried to mentally calculate how we could possibly come up with the funds to pull that off - even considering the amount of time it would take one adult and an eight year old to brainstorm and create 150 swaps. Oh, yeah, and a presentation board. I was kind of bummed out too, because that would have been fun if we'd had more notice. Maybe next year... 

Checking out the Displays. She hit the Fiji booth
at least a dozen times because she loved the fruit
drink they made. She had a purse full of dimes!

This girl is covered with swaps!

Our old troop did Madagascar this year.
The cute red-head is her BFF stamping passports.

And a picture with our Service Unit Director to finish out the day. She's the sweetest lady!

Hope you're all having fun with all the events your Service Units are having this time of year!