About

Hello, and welcome to Around the Toadstool.

 

My name is Caitlin. I am a Spark/Brownie/Guide leader in Southern Ontario.   This blog is a collaboration of Brownie unit adventures along with craft and program ideas.

I have been in Guiding for 12 years.  I started as a Girl Guide and fell in love the first meeting I went to with one of my best friends.  I continued to Pathfinders. During the three years, I became more confident and right out of my shyness. Then, I completed the Ranger program. Rangers is when I learned that I absolutely love camping and that I enjoy working with the younger girls.

In 2012, I became a Spark, Brownie, and Guide leader.  I was a Jr. Leader in all three branches during Rangers and wanted to stay with each group. During meetings, I teach the girls lots of songs and games. I like to also do crafts and go camping with the girls.   I enjoy seeing the girls smiling faces at each meeting and listening to every one of their stories that they have to share. 

In the past, I have written on two other blogs. In 2010, I wrote each week about the preparation and experiences at Guiding Mosaic 2010. It was called: Guiding Mosaic Here we Come.  In 2012, I created a blog to talk about my travelling adventures. I talked about my experiences in Ireland with Pathfinders and Rangers in the area. It was called: Travelling Adventures with Caitie. I still post on this one periodically.  I have set up this blog to write about our adventures that we have in Brownies along with posting program ideas and our crafts that we do.   I hope that this blog will be fun for the girls and parents to look back to what they did in Brownies, as well as ideas to use for their badge work.    Guiders, feel free to take the program ideas posted on here to your meetings and share them with your girls.

Yours in Guiding,

Caitlin

(Giggles)