Daisy Meeting 5: Investiture Ceremony

A Girl Scout Investiture Ceremony welcomes new girls and adults into the Girl Scouting program.  It is held anytime persons joins the organization.  A person is invested only once in their lifetime.  After that they are rededicated.  We kept our Investiture Ceremony pretty simple.

Meeting 4: Responsible for What I Say and Do and Investiture Ceremony

Meeting at a Glance

Goal: Girls know how to be courageous and strong, families are introduced to Girl Scout

Daisies, and families celebrate with girls are they are officially welcomed in Girl Scouts.

Supplies:

o Nametags

o Pen and sign-in/sign-out sheet

o Girl Scout Daisy, The Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting

o Girl Scout Daisy membership pins, Girl Scout Daisy Promise Center and earning

Learning petals

o Paper, crayons, markers

Prepare Ahead:

o Purchase Girl Scout Daisy membership pins, Girl Scout Daisy Petal set, and the

Journey Patch Set

o Sort petals and awards into individual bags

o Arrange and set-up your ceremony site, including seating for family members,

Pre-Meeting

Greet, sign-in, and put on nametags

Opening

Welcome families and guests. Explain that they have been invited to learn about what

Girl Scout Daisies do at troop meetings and to celebrate their becoming full members in

an Investiture Ceremony.

Girls form a semi-circle, facing families and greet each other with the Girl Scout

handshake.

Share general information about how you open meetings and the Girl Scout Promise

before girls say the Promise.

Sing “Make New Friends.”

Business

Have the girls sit in the Girl Scout Daisy Circle and explain that this is their business and

planning time to share ideas, make decisions, and talk as a group.

Show how girls have learned the quiet sign, the list of rules they developed, and how

kapers are done.

Activity/Exploration

Explain that is now time to explore the theme. Share how the girls are learning the Girl

Scout Law through their Flower Friends. Have the girls say the Law through “considerate

and caring.”

Talk about your Mini-Garden and how it is responsibility to keep a garden going.  (This also complete Journey Session 2)

Read Mari's Story, for Responsible for What I Say and Do.  (This also completes Journey Session 3)

Investiture Ceremony

Gather girls to form a semi-circle facing family members.

Explain that an Investiture Ceremony is used to welcome a new girl or adult in Girl Scouts

and they only go through an investiture once in their lifetime. Girls who are already

invested are “rededicated.”

Explain that Girl Scouting was started by a woman named Juliette Gordon Low over 100

years ago and the girls want to share an action story to help families know about her too.

Do the “How Girl Scouts Got Started” Action Story.

Say, “You are about to become a Girl Scout Daisy. Together we will explore all the fun and

adventure of Girl Scouting.”

Say, “The Girl Scout Promise is the pledge that tells us how to live our lives and it is

represented by the center of the Daisy.” Lead the girls in saying the Girl Scout Promise.

Give each girl the Girl Scout membership pin and welcome them with a Girl Scout

handshake. 

Girls sing “Girl Scout Daisy Song” or “I’m a Little Daisy.”

Give the girls their Promise Center, light blue (honest and fair) petal, Making Choices, Count It Up, Money Counts, Talk It Up leaves and the Journey Patch with the Watering Can badge and certificate.

Thank families for attending and let them know that refreshments will be served now.

Clean-up

Remind girls of kapers and work together to leave the site better than you found it.

Closing

Form a Friendship Circle with family members.

Sing, “Goodbye, Daisies,” and do a friendship squeeze.

Collect nametags and sign-out.