Cadette Girl S cout HandbookOverview 1963 Motto Be prepared. Slogan Do a good turn daily. Promise On my honor, I will try: To do my duty to God and my country, To help other people at all times, To obey the Girl Scout Laws. The Girl Scouts Law 1. A Girl Scout’s honor is to be trusted. 2. A Girl Scout is loyal. 3. A Girl Scout’s duty is t o be useul and to help others. 4. A Girl Scout is a riend to all and a sister to ev ery other Girl Scout. 5. A Girl Scout is courteous. 6. A Girl Scout is a riend to an imals. 7. A Girl Scout obe ys orders. 8. A Girl Scout is cheerul. 9. A Girl Scout is thrity. 10. A Girl Scout is clean in thought, word, and deed.
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Can you prove yoursel to be a gracious, competent hostess
and also a considerate, riendly guest?
Purpose
To show that you have the understanding and skills to get along well with people—older andyounger, amily and riends, boys and girls, those you already know and new people—and that
you can bring them enjoyment and happiness in a social situation.
Challenge Preps
Prepare or this Challenge by developing three aspects o your personal lie—Health and Good
Looks, Know-How as a Hostess, Technique as a Guest.
1. Your health-and-good-looks plan
Develop and ollow a personal health and appearance plan that keeps you attractive and fit.
• The right kinds and amounts o ood to keep you eeling and looking fine.
• Enough resh air and exercise to keep you eeling vigorous.
• Enough sleep to keep you wide-awake and energetic all day.
• A system o daily care or your hair, skin, nails, and teeth.
• The use o makeup, hair styles, clothes, colors, and accessories most becoming
and appropriate to you.
• Practice in the development o a pleasant speaking voice, a pleasant manner.
• Application o good posture habits or good health and good looks.
2. Your know-how as a hostess
Develop the attitudes and skills that make you a gracious, competent hostess.
• Extend invitations appropriate to a variety o social events.
• Plan and arrange an attractive setting in harmony with the spirit or themeo the occasion.
• Plan a menu, shop or ood and supplies, help to prepare the ood, set the table
attractively, and organize the service or at least our o these occasions:
— A amily meal
— A bufet luncheon or supper
— A party or young children
— An out-o-doors meal
— A teenage party
— An event or a larger group, such as a troop supper
• Make a plan which is detailed but flexible, with ideas or alternative activities
i they are needed, or a party or:
• Younger children• A group your own age
• Parents and adult riends
• Establish guides o etiquette at to chaperons, curew hour, and so orth,
and convey these rules tactully to your guests.
• Help your guests have a good time through your understanding o their tastes,
interests, personalities.
• Welcome guests hospitably, and say a cordial “Good night and come again.”
• Organize and direct songs, games, and quiet un with a group o younger children.
• Help produce an inormal dramatic presentation.
• Organize at least two ice breakers, two games or contests, one olk dance, one
Can you be depended on to help others in an emergency
through quick, sure use o your knowledge and skills?
Purpose
To show that you have a good command o the knowledge and skills needed or sae, comort-able living, both indoors and out; that you can get along with a minimum o equipment; that
you are enterprising, resourceul; that you can put your skills to good use in an emergency.
Challenge Preps
Prepare or this Challenge by checking your knowledge and skills in these our areas: First Adi,
Communications, Comort in a Crisis, Enterprise in Entertainment. Use the checklists on the
ollowing pages. Just beore accepting the Challenge, discuss with the members o your group
and your leader the purpose and the kinds o emergencies that might possibly arise in your part
o the country. Take into consideration the geography, weather and local conditions.
1. First aid
Learn or review the objectives o first aid as outlined in the American National Red Cross
First Aid Textbook or each o the ollowing. Keep a record o when you practiced what
to do in each case.
• Be prepared to demonstrate.
— Wounds.
— Shock.
— Artificial respiration.
— Poisoning by mouth.
— Injuries to bones and muscles.
— Burns.
— Transporting injured persons.
• Decide what supplies should go into the ollowing types o first aid kits, and,i you do not already have a kit, help plan and assemble at least one o your:
— Family car.
— Troop meeting place.
— Patrol expeditions.
— Troop camping trips.
Consider the hazards young children may be subjected to in the home. List at least
twenty-five and explain what should be done to protect against these hazards.
2. Communications
• Demonstrate skills including:
— Use a compass— Find the North Star
— Draw a sketch map
— Follow a road map and a city street map
— Give directions
— Carry a message accurately in your head
• Using Scout’s pace or bicycle, know how to reach the nearest:
— Police station
— Fire alarm box
— Public telephone
Develop and use a communication plan to reach all your troop members with speed.
• Wash and store dishes, silverware, and cooking utensils in an e cient and sanitary way:
— Indoors
— Outdoors
• Using only packaged supplies eed your patrol or amily:
— Breakast
— Lunch
— Dinner
• Know one method to puriy water or drinking.
• Demonstrate your ability to:
— Handle simple household upkeep and repairs indoors and outdoors.
— Plan, assemble, pack, and transport heavy-duty clothing or yoursel or 3 or 4 days.
Choose the items (including ood) needed or an emergency utility kit or a 3 or 4 dayevacuation o home or camp.
4. Enterprise in entertainment
• Using games, stories, crats, and simple dramatics, demonstrate you can keep
young children occupied:
— In a confined indoor area
— Outdoors
• Do the same thing or people your own age and older.
The Challenge
With others in your Challenge group, carry out the sealed orders given to you by your leader.You will be asked to deal with a specific emergency described or the occasion. Here are some
examples o the kinds o emergencies you may meet:
8 girls—outdoors
A flood has let many amilies on your street temporarily homeless. Your patrol is asked to pro-
vide a hot meal and drinking water or our amilies and to take care o ten children (rom our
to eight years) or the aternoon.
2-4 girls—indoors
An ice storm has caused an electric power ailure. Your amily consists o our ather, who is away
at work, your mother, who has a severe cold and should be in bed, and a younger sister and
brother. The urnace is not working. The kitchen stove is electric. There is a fireplace in the living
room. Take charge or a day. Provide lunch and dinner. Make your mother comortable. Keep the
children warm and happy. Use anything ound in the house, basement, garage, outdoors.
6-8 girls, out-of-doors, camp
The buses that take the girls home rom day camp cannot get through to them. A orest fire is
blocking the bus route. Most o the camp staf have gone to help the fire-fighters. Your patrol
is assigned the job o keeping the 32 girls o the Junior Scout unit busy and happy rom 2 to 6
p.m. They will need a calm atmosphere to counteract the excitement o the day, planned
activities, and supper.
Evaluation
Could you turn your wish to help into practical, useul action? Were you prepared? Did youmeet your emergency?
This Challenge is the final step toward First Class. Your success
in meeting it will be decided by you and all the members o the
Court o Honor, rather than only by the troop leader and the
Challenge group, as in the other three Challenges.
Purpose
To show you that you have a true understanding o the Girl Scout Promise and its meaning in
your daily lie; that you are guided by its high standards in relation to yoursel and to all other
people; that it serves as an ever present guide to you in belies and conduct. This Challenge is
diferent, or you began to prepare or it the moment you became a Girl Scout. The first three
challenges test your knowledge, skills, and experience. This Challenge searches your mind and
heart, your eelings and attitudes, to discover whether the Girl Scout Promise has become part
o you, part o everything you do.
You can see the diference between this Challenge and the others. It is much easier to evaluate
your skill in baking a pie or storm-lashing a tent than it is to evaluate your qualities as a person
o integrity, It takes time, it takes a sense o values, it takes courage and honesty to learn to
live up to the Promise. In some ways, you may find this harder than mastering any specific skill.
But the rewards are greater. They are conviction and inner strength, spiritual accomplishments
which enrich your lie and the lives o everyone around you.
There are no Challenge Preps as such or this Challenge. However, here are two suggestions or
you to show the impact that the Girl Scout Promise has made upon you.
One. With others, make up a list o ten or twelve kinds o situations that girls your age meet
in which there may be conflicting opinions about the truly ethical way to act. Discuss with the
others how your understanding o the Girl Scout Promise helps you decide how to rise to the
occasion with honor.
Two. Take an active part in planning and carrying out a Scouts’ Own which highlights the waysin which the Girl Scout Promise helps you decide how to act.
Ater you have completed the other requirements or First Class by earning a minimum o six
badges and successully meeting the three other Challenges, make application to your troop’s
Court o Honor. At a meeting which you do not attend, the court o Honor will decide—on the
basis, o your everyday actions in and out o Scouting—whether you are ready to accept this
Challenge. It will consider the ollowing points:
• Have you demonstrated a real understanding o the Promise and Laws?
• Have you applied this understanding in day-to-day living and thinking?
• Have you shown that you are capable o working, planning, sharing with a group?
• Have you shown through action and attitude, your personal integrity and honor?
Meanwhile, Prepare yoursel to answer all the questions below. Ater the Court o Honor has
agreed that you are ready to accept the Challenge, you may be asked to answer or demon-
strate, during a troop meeting or other troop activity, or beore the Court o Honor, alone or
with others, one, a ew or all o these questions. The court o Honor will determine how this will
1. Explain the diference between a movement, an organization, and an institution. Why
do you think you join a movement when you become a Girl Scout? Why do you think
adult members as well as girls subscribe to the Girl Scout Promise?
2. What is the role o women in the religious group o your choice? What are its marriage
customs? What are the purposes and activities o the women’s organizations in this group?
3. Explain how the idea or a meaningul service project starts, grows, and changes rom the
Brownie age, through the Junior, Cadette, and Senior age. What service projects in which
you have taken part seemed especially satisying to you? Why?
4. Explain how a ceremony in a troop or camp can convey your eelings about duty to God
and your country, and your pledge to be a good citizen. In what way do you think eelings
difer as experienced by participants and members o the audience at such a ceremony?
Describe an especially satisactory ceremony in which you have taken part.
The Challenge
Show that you understand and practice the Girl Scout Promise in everything you do and are.
There are no quick and easy short-cuts to successully meeting the Challenge o the Girl ScoutPromise, and no one else can do it or you. For this reason when the time arrives or you and
your troop members to recognize that you have achieved that inner strength, that priceless
ingredient o your lie, you may be justifiably proud. It may be that your Court o Honor will
wish to make the meeting especially memorable by planning a special eature or it.
As you successully meet the challenge o the Girl Scout Promise, you will become a First Class
Girl Scout and a first class person o whom the entire movement will be proud!