Junior Aid part 3/ Lego movie

We were back to full capacity, yay! I am so glad that she got better quickly.

This meeting, our plan was to get some props made and for them to start filming the first part of the Journey video.

Well.... nothing ever goes according to plan.

My daughter started on finishing up her lego movie. We had done these at home, so she knew what needed to be done. And then I set the other girl up to finish her movie. I knew she was having trouble with the camera the whole time, and now I could actually see her problems. Nothing was in focus but since this was 2 weeks ago, I can not even begin to know what went wrong. I want to give her a chance to redo the video, just not sure when we would have the time. Maybe we can work on it at camp in January.

The girls were all give printed out "scripts" of the journey. We went over it really quickly with them, so that they can focus on what else was actually needed to get filming started. We needed flowers, backgrounds, a birds nest and a caterpillar. And they set off working.

If there is a theme with my troop it would be horrible time management because before we knew it, the meeting was just about over and we were not even close to being ready to film. I just do not think that we allotted enough time in our yearly plan for this project.

I decided to try to just film the introduction of the Journey and give the girls a chance to look over everything during the week.

This did not go so well. I was telling them that it is only an introduction and to be natural, but point a video camera at them and all of a sudden, I have 10 minutes of "bloopers". In the end, I asked the girls to know the introduction for next week so we can film it with out them reading from a paper. Hopefully we will be able to get the introduction and first part of the journey filmed next week.

I know that I am crazy, but I am hoping for the second part as well.

Lexy's movie

Junior Aid Part 2

This week one of our little ones was sick. And when you only have 4 girls attending troop meetings and one gets sick, it is kind of hard to continue as planned. When there is 10 girls and one misses, it will sound mean, but you don't really miss her presence. As in things can still get done. With a quarter of your troop is gone, it comes to a stand still.

The girls worked on their flower puppets and the script for the first part of the video. The plan was to have it all done so that we can work on filming the next week. The girls got right down to business and Miss B and I got right down to the business of cleaning out the supply closet.

I can not even begin to tell you how this closet bothered me. We would just chuck things in there at the end of the meeting, in order to get out on time. And it was a mess! Plus we had no clue what was actually in there, so I would be buying multiples of things. It took us 2 hours in total but when we were done it was beautiful! I loved it.

Now lets hope that it stays that way!

Since one of the girls who was sick was one of the ones who needed to finish their lego movie, we just pushed that off until the next week.

Junior Aid- part 1

This is our next big thing. I think that it is going to take about a month to complete. The girls have decided that they are going to bring a journey to a Daisy Troop. The idea of doing a Journey was not exciting to the girls at first but then we came up with an idea that they were more than happy to work on.

They are going to transform the book into a video. They are going to make back drops and they are going to make the flower characters and the animals.Then they will act out the story.

All of a sudden the girls were supper excited to get started. They sat down with the book, 3 Cheers for Animals, and they came up with the first skit. Next week we will be making the back drops and hopefully film the first part.

In the end, they would like to publish it to Youtube and have it as a resource for Juliette girls.