Best Bubble Solution

Ingredients

• 1 c Water
• 2 Tablespoon Light Karo syrup OR 2 Tablespoons Glycerin
• 4 Tablespoon Dishwashing liquid

Method

1. Mix together.
2. Allow to sit overnight.

More Bubbles

Ingredients

• 1/2 cup Water
• 1/2 cup Liquid Detergent
• 1 Tablespoon Cooking Oil

Method.

1. Mix together.
2. Allow to sit overnight.

Beluga Bubbles

Ingredients

• 1 cup Warm Water
• 1/4 cup Blue Dishwashing Liquid
• 1 teaspoon Salt

Directions

1. Combine all ingredients.
2.  Mix well until salt dissolves.
3.  Allow to sit overnight.

make your own bubbles.

These recipes give us all the chance to make our own homemade bubbles. Some type of wand also works well.

• The longer you let each of the mixtures set, the more stable it becomes, thus the larger the bubbles are, and the longer they seem to last. 

• Most solutions contain a few simple ingredients which can be found at home or in your local supermarket or pharmacy. You will need liquid dish washing detergent or very liquidly pre soaked soap gratings. The more  expensive the dish washing detergent is the better the bubbles seem to work. 

• Mix with water then add either light corn syrup or glycerine. Glycerine is preferable because it makes stronger bubbles and doesn't attract flying insects like the sweet syrup will. The majority of solutions will include these three ingredients in varying amounts.

Hopscotch

How to play hopscotch?

All around the world there are many ways to play the game of hopscotch. Hopscotch is a game derived by drawing grids on a surface. These grids are numerically ordered and can come in any shape or size. Children then hop from the first box all the way up to the last one. Once they reach the end, turn around and hop back to the beginning. 

Example of a Grid



How to play hopscotch?

1. The First player start on the first box in the grid


2. They then hop from box to box going up in numerical order


3. Once the player reaches the end, they have to turn around and make it to the beginning


4. However, a player cannot step on a line in the grid or else they lose

They arrived with a...

C.F.A Come on down to Guides.

When planning 2009 Tuesday program the girls decided to invite the CFA people to Guides. Little knowing that every one here would be so affected by the near by fires over the last two weeks.

Here are some of the pictures of the CFA ladies who came to our Girl Guide meeting today. We did not scare them off…. so they are coming back too.

Made sandcastles.

When we arrived at the beach it took a couple of parents to off load the 'making a sand castle' equipment.

• A free standing open tent.
• Sun screen 
• Drink bottles
• Buckets
• Spades.
• Spray bottles
• Pre-made shapes

After using lots of sunscreen every participant went for a long walk.  The challenge was to gather stones, seaweed, shells, rubbish like straws,twigs, and plastics utensils  to fill the bucket every one had with them.

When we arrived back everyone

• could choose one thing to show everyone else.
• This was their special decoration for them to place on the finished sandcastle.
• emptied the rest of their bucket into one share pile.

The area chose was flattened out further. and water from the buckets [to be gathered] would further flatten the sand castle floor. 

Now was the time to go to the sea and fill the bucket up with water in preparation for the water that would be needed to dampen the sand used to build our sandcastle.  For the adults and older Guides this water collection was on on going activity... ALL DAY.

A wave wall between the sea and the proposed sandcastle was made.    What we noticed was that as the sandcastle got bigger the wall got larger in size.  The wave wall also made a perimeter that the Guides were able to co-work together once there own sandcastle was made.

Another thing we noticed was that many adults had forgotten how to make sandcastles.  Watching the younger Guides go for it brought many things back.  And then we found this video when we got back!

References  The Wilderness Society - Sandcastles for Sanctuaries

Kookaburra Sits on the old..

Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree,

Merry merry king of the bush is he.
Laugh, Kookaburra, laugh, Kookaburra,
Gay your life must be!

Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree,
Eating all the gum drops he can see.
Stop Kookaburra, stop Kookaburra
Save some there for me!

Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree,
Counting all the monkeys he can see.
Laugh Kookaburra, laugh Kookaburra
That's not a monkey, that's me!

Alternative verses

Kookaburra sits on the electric wire,
Jumping up and down, with his pants on fire.
Ouch, Kookaburra, ouch! Kookaburra,
Hot your tail must be!

Kookaburra sits on a rusty nail,
Gets a boo-boo in his tail.
Cry, Kookaburra, cry, Kookaburra,
Oh how life can be!

Kookaburra sits on the old gum tree,
Eating all the gum drops he can see.
Laugh Kookaburra, laugh Kookaburra
Gay your life must be!

Reference:  All Down Under.com