GIRL GUIDE NOTES

Evening Star, Issue 23371, 14 September 1939, Page 17

GIRL GUIDE NOTES

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In a time (if crisis flic thought Hies jn one’s mind. " What can I dof” 1 lie stress and strain of the last week demand the relief of action. But at present we must wait for developments. When the various bodies of Die Dominion, such as the Red Cross and Die St. Jo In i Ambulance, are _ more luli.v organised, headquarters will advise the best way of offering our services as a movement to the Dominion.

There is no news so tar of the postponement of the Centennial camp. South Otago Guides are planning a rally to be held at Baleluthn. They intend to cook lunch and have an afternoon of games, tracking, ambulance work, signalling, and knot tying, finishing with a camp fire. At the last rally about 70 Guides were present, but this year it is Imped for a larger muster. South Otago will bo pleased to welcome Lone Guides, as well as all Guides of the district. ENERGETIC GAMES. I Floor Hockey.—Two teams kneel on ( the floor facing each other, each team j being armed with a "stick” made of rolled-up newspaper, while tho ball is a ping-pong ball. A goal is scored by hitting the ball out at _ the end of tho team, and the game is started by the two players in the middle “ bullying ” in the ordinary way. The game is usually decided by seeing which team scores five goafs first, as the “ sticks ” will not, as a rule, hold out any longer. Your Own Place. (This is a form of chairs, and can be played with chairs indoors or with a large circle outside.) —Each side puts down something, or marks her chair so that she knows her own place. When the music stops, or the whistle blows, everyone must regain her own place, but she must not turn back or cut through or across. The last person to regain her place loses a life (it is better not to make the person drop out at once), and at the end the person to lose least lives gains one. This can also be played as a patrol team game when adding up lives lost. Number Touch. (This is a good warming-up game.)—The players stand in a ring and are numbered round. The whistle blows and they start to run round. A number is called and the player of that number sees how many people she can touch in half a minute. Those touched must stand still, but the others may go on running anywhere till the whistle blows. If a large number are playing it is best to call two numbers. Smugglers and Excise Men.—A certain number of chalk marks are made here and there over the playing area, and when the whistle blows those who can get on to a chalk mark become pirates. (It is as well to have about three less marks than players.) Those who have not are the excise men. Smugglers pass the contraband goods (in the shape of a ball) from one to tho other as quickly as possible. The excise men try to intercept the ball, and if they do so they change places with the first player to throw it. Tho smugglers must keep one foot on the chalk mark. (If well and quickly played this game is a good preparation for netball.) Circle Chaseball.—Two teams form a circle, standing alternately and wearing differently coloured bands. The teams are numbered round, and No. 1 of A team holds a large ball, as does No. 3 of B team. The point of the came is for A team’s ball to catch up B’s. The ball is passed round tho circle to each member of the team, and when either ball overtakes the other the leader of the triumphant team shouts “ Stop.”