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A group of Brownies who meet together is called a unit. [6] Brownies work in small groups called sixes: each six is named after either fairies or woodland creatures. A six is led by a Sixer and has a Second who acts as deputy. The Brownie programme is called the Brownie Adventure. It is split into 3 parts: [7] you, community, world.
Their uniform consists of a brown vest or sash which may be worn with a white shirt and khaki bottoms or with an official Brownie uniform. [2] The Girl Scout Membership Star is worn with green membership disks, [5] and they wear the Brownie Membership Pin. Girl Scout Brownies (right, brown vests) and Juniors (left, teal vests) at a charity event.
When 2 theme awards are completed, the Rainbow get her Bronze award, 4 themes earn the Silver award and all 6 themes plus 3 extra bits gains the Gold award. Activities range from games and crafts to leaning how things work, experimenting, basic survival skills and outdoor fun amongst other activities. The girls have fun whilst learning.
Girl Guides (known as Girl Scouts in the United States and some other countries) is a worldwide movement, originally and largely still designed for girls and women only. The movement began in 1909, when girls requested to join the then-grassroots Boy Scout Movement .
Girl Guides in camp, 1930. Following the origin of the Boy Scouts in 1907 many girls took up Scouting. [23] In 1909, a number of Girl Scouts attended the Boy Scout Rally in Crystal Palace Park [24] The girls told Robert Baden Powell that they wanted 'to do the same thing as the boys'. [25] Guiding was introduced to respond to the demand. [21]
According to the GSUSA, each Girl Scout council contracts with one of two licensed bakers, whose recipes and ingredients may differ slightly: ABC Bakers and Little Brownie Bakers.
Brownies have also appeared outside of folklore, including in John Milton's poem L'Allegro. They became popular in works of children's literature in the late nineteenth century and continue to appear in works of modern fantasy. The Brownies in the Girl Guides are named after a short story by Juliana Horatia Ewing based on brownie folklore.
Juliette Gordon Low (née Gordon; October 31, 1860 – January 17, 1927) was the American founder of Girl Scouts of the USA.Inspired by the work of Robert Baden-Powell, founder of Scout Movement, she joined the Girl Guide movement in England, forming her own group of Girl Guides there in 1911.