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An example of leadership training that could be done with your Sixers and Seconders (or any upcoming girls).
Includes handouts for the girls to take away with them.

It is nice to take the girls away from the unit meeting place to do this, to make it extra special. Budget around $5 a girl or thereabouts. Most of the items can come from your unit stash.

Resources

Activity 1 – what makes a good Sixer?
• Whiteboard & whiteboard markers, or some large paper sheets and bright felts to brainstorm with
• Me & My Six booklets – one booklet per girl - These are available for download and printing from the National
Resource section on OGM.
• pencils
• pencil sharpener
• rubbers

Activity 2 – Ice Biscuits
• Icing sugar (get the pre-flavoured coloured ones to make life easier)
• water
• Plain biscuits (GGNZ ones of course)
• sprinkles
• bowls to make icing in
• knives to spread
• Gladwrap to wrap them up, or baking paper, plastic bag, if they don't want to eat them all then and there or
want to take them home to their whānau.

Activity 3 – Crazy pictures
• paper
• pencils
• pencil sharpener
• rubbers

Activity 4 – Good teams
• Me & My Six booklets
• pencils
• pencil sharpener
• rubbers

Activity 5- Human Knot
• girls only

Activity 6 - Tangrams
• Me & My Six booklets
• pencils
• pencil sharpener
• rubbers

Activity 7 – Squares Game
• Sheets with dots on them, preprinted out (see attachments to this activity)
• Coloured pencils (different colour for each girl)
• pencil sharpener
• rubbers

Activity 8 – Ice cream in a bag
• Glass jars with lid - perhaps ask the girls to bring a clean jam/chutney jar with lid each themselves?
• A towel to go around each bag with jar inside to help with leaks of water/salt.
• flavoured milk
• Salt (to put on the ice)
• Heavy plastic bag - thick plastic, or double bag as it can get holes in it from the ice and salt. Must be big enough
to take a good amount of ice around the size of the jar you have = not a sandwich size!
• ICE cubes – enough to surround jars

Activity 9 – hands game
• Girls only

Instructions

1000 - OPENING – 5 mins
• Welcome
• Toilets, fire exits, First Aid, health & Safety
• Refer to Me & My Six Book
• What is a Six/Sixer/Seconder?
• Six badge and name
• Does everyone need to be in a Six?

1005 - ACTIVITY 1 – 15 mins
• What makes a good Sixer? Discuss and write ideas on whiteboard then do sheet in booklet
• Who will be in my Six? Discuss how different units work – maybe they could tell you their own unit practices. How do they choose who is in their Six? If they choose, is that fair on the ones who get picked last – how would that make them feel?
• Six Time – what is it? How often? Is it done in their unit? How much time should they have? What do they do if they are not going to be at Brownies that week?

1020 - ACTIVITY 2 – 20 mins
ICE BISCUITS
Icing for girls with 1 cup icing sugar, and water while they do their “Crazy Pictures”. If you don't use the pre-coloured/flavoured icing sugar you may want to use a drop or two of colouring/flavouring.
Girls to make 3 biscuits each – gladwrap them if they don’t have time or don’t want to eat them

1040 - ACTIVITY 3 – 15 mins
CRAZY PICTURES
As per sheet

1055 - ACTIVITY 4 – 15 mins
• How do I make a good team? – page 9 discuss then do page in booklet
• How do you choose as a team what name / badge / activity to do? Page 10
• How to deal to deal others in my Six? Page 11/12
• Ask them how they would cope with each situation in the left hand column and then discuss any other solutions they didn’t give you.

1110 - ACTIVITY 5 – 15 mins
HUMAN KNOT
Team building exercise.
Every one stands in a circle and puts their hands in and grabs someone else’s hand. They then need to try and untangle themselves working as a team

1125 – Drink, snack, run around – 15 mins


1140 - ACTIVITY 6 – 20 mins
TANGRAMS
Handout sheet for girls to cut out triangles and then try to make the Tangrams in the Me & My Six Book
When they have had a good go hand out the solutions!
Envelopes provided for them to put all their bits in – please make sure their names are on them!

1200 - ACTIVITY 7 – 15 mins
SQUARES
Divide into groups of 4 girls
Use a different coloured pen for each girl in the group
First girl draws one line.
Then each girl has a turn at drawing a line
The object of the game is to be the one to draw the 4th line on a square to complete it and then puts her initial in the square. If you are the one to finish a square then you have another turn until you can’t complete anymore squares

1215 - ACTIVITY 8 – 20 mins
ICE CREAM IN A BAG
4 girls per jar
Place 250ml of flavoured milk in a glass jar and screw the lid on tight.
Place jar in the plastic bag and ½ fill bag with ice and 6 Tablespoons of salt.
Wrap bag in towel and shake for 10 minutes in turns and you should have ice cream
Share between the girls and enjoy.

1235 - ACTIVITY 9 – 15 mins
HANDS GAME
Sit in a circle with their hands on the floor in front of them.
Each girl to put her right hand over their neighbours left hand.
One girl starts and taps one hand once then the girl to their right taps the hand next to theirs. If anyone taps twice the direction changes. Your hand is “out” when the wrong hand is used and they withdraw their one wrong hand and carry on until you get down to a winner.

1250 – Lunch – that the girls have brought with them

CLOSING
• Challenge yourself to use what you have learnt today
• Ask for help if you need it
• Make it interesting and be the best Sixer you can
• Hand out the Handy Tips booklet to the girls, along with the Sixer Activity Time sheet and How do I make a
good team sheets. Have several sheets of the square game and one each of the tangrams for them to use in
the unit.
• Thank you to all helpers
• Check everyone has all their gear and areas are tidy
• Reminder to stay in hall until your adult picks you up

Daylight Taps

Tags

• Leadership
• Leadership Challenges
• Seconder
• Six Time Fun
• Sixer

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