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Girl Scouts Thinking Day – Ghana Swap Keychain

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Our Ghana Day Swap was a really neat idea that our other leader created with the girls.  We used shrinky dink paper to draw maps of Ghana in which the girls colored, using the colors of Ghana’s flag.  For those of you who are as clueless as I was, shrinky dink paper is a paper you can buy at Hobby Lobby or Amazon which allows the user to color on the paper, bake it and it shrinks and hardens.

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One of our girls coloring the shrinky dink paper with colored pencils.

 

 

Once the coloring part was complete, the girls cut each map out and put a nice hole punch on the edge.

 

One of the colored maps.

Finally, they were cut around the edges and baked in the oven.  We followed the directions on the package.  Once removed and cooled, we inserted key rings into the holes.  The result – a cool key chain Ghana map!

Ghana maps after being pulled from the oven.

 

The final product!

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Please check out some of our other Ghana Thinking Day posts….

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Lego Minecraft Creeper

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My son’s version of the Lego Minecraft Creeper

 

This was a fun project for my son.  He wanted to add a Minecraft creeper to his Lego creation shelf.

This particular piece is made completely from Lego bricks. Green, light green,  white and black bricks for the toes and face.  There were no special bricks used.

 

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Lego Star Wars Poe’s X-Wing Fighter #30278

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Lego Star Wars #30278 Poe’s X-Wing Fighter

This was an awesome package from Target that was a quick build for my son.   The Lego Star Wars set was an awesome addition to his other Lego builds.  The package had 64 pieces and the wings move up and down.

Page 1 of directions
Page 2 of directions

 

The final product!

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Girl Scouts Thinking Day- Ghana’s Flag

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Our Cadettes painted the Ghana flag for Thinking Day

World Thinking Day is an internationally celebrated holiday for Girl Scouts to remember their international sisters.  It serves as a reminder that the United States is only one part of a global community. Troops from around the council pick a country and then come together to educate other scouts about that country.  The troops research lots and lots of facts, as well as learn certain words from the native language, create an authentic food, and create swaps that represent that country. They then build a booth so other troops can come learn about the awesomeness of that country. 

Our girls have chosen Ghana for their country and have been hard at work painting a flag, making a few different swaps, researching facts and building Adobe houses.

To make the flag above, our Cadettes came up with a great idea to use just basic chart paper and poster board to paint a flag for display at our booth. They taped the two together on the back to make a large flag and then used Apple Barrel Craft paint for the bright colors.

I can’t wait to share more of their finished projects.  Their booth is beginning to come together nicely.

Please check out some of our other Ghana Thinking Day posts….

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Lego Creator Blue Racer #31027

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Lego Creator Blue Racer #3107

This was the Lego blue racer car that my son received for his birthday.  It was a small set, only 67 pieces, and was another quick build.  It looks great in a Lego city.

 

 

 

 

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Lego Blue Racer parts

In case you would like to build it with all the extra Lego pieces laying around.

 

 

 

 

 

Lego Blue Racer Side View
Back View
Front View

The finished product! Or at least one version.  It is a 3 in 1 set so your child can take it apart and fix it in different ways. The other two versions include a snow plow and a buggy.

Target has the entire set for $5.00 on their website.  The link below should take you directly to it.

Target Blue Racer Set

 

 

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Lego Mario’s Fire Flower

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My son’s latest creation – Mario’s Fire Flower made with Legos.  

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His version of Mario’s fire flower – Lego style.

To create this piece, he only used bricks of different sizes.  Mostly green, yellow and red 2 x 4 bricks.  There are a few 2 x 2 on the ends.  

 

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Division & Estimation Kahoot

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This Kahoot was created by me as a practice game for my 5th graders.  It uses their division, estimating, and multiplication skills. My students worked in pairs, but this could definitely be used for individual students. I also allowed my students to use white boards if they needed them.  

You could also use this in different grades as a review or practice.    

If you are unsure of what a Kahoot is, check out my previous post titled Kahoot Introduction.   
https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/524f9076-b36d-4c19-81c4-969725f7cd1d

If you’ve never used a Kahoot before, please check out my Kahoot Introduction.  If you would like to see some other kahoots, I have several with different topics that I made under menu, Kahoots  or just click anything below..

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Lego Elves Azari’s Magic Fire -Set #30259

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My daughter decided to get in on the some of the girl Lego sets.

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Lego Elves Set #30259- Azari’s Magic Fire

 

Directions

Page 1 of Instructions -Azari’s Magic Fire
Page 2 of Azari’s Magic Fire

 

The final product was super cute!  She didn’t need me to help her at all for this one.

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Front View of Azari’s Magic Fire
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Back View of the set
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Star Wars TIE Advanced Prototype #30275

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My son bought this set at Target and loved building the model. We had a lot of fun building this particular piece and with only 47 pieces, it didn’t take that long to get the new set together.

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Lego Set 30275. TIE Advanced Prototype

 

Directions

1st half of directions for the TIE Prototype
Page 2 of instructions

 

It turned out pretty good!  It makes a great addition to any Star Wars set or as a stand alone.

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TIE Advanced Prototype Front View
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TIE Advanced Prototype Back View

 

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Lego Mario Mushroom

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Lego Mario Mushroom 

My son created his version of the Lego Mario Mushroom.  On one side, you have your regular red mushroom but on the other side is the green 1-up mushroom.

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Lego Mario Mushroom – made with red, yellow and white bricks

This mushroom is made from only red, green, yellow and white bricks.  No special pieces required.