Girls First: How it affects our Camps?

The simple answer to this question IT DOESN'T!

Isn't that great? If your unit already let the girls pick what they want to do at camp or what they want as a camp theme the new Girls First program won't change a thing in your programming. We have always let our girls choose the camp theme for both our winter and summer camp. The only exception to this was if we really wanted to do a specific challenge or badge work that we thought the girls would benefit from. What i love about this new program as well is badge work is flexible so things we do at camp can easily count for girls of all age levels and it's all the same themes!

Here is how we start our process;

1. The first or second meeting we have a brainstorming session of what the girls ant to do for the year, this includes what they would like to do at camp. Older groups may give you themes where younger girls sometimes give us activities they want to do.
2. Leaders take these ideas and decide which ones would be easiest to form a camp around; we usually narrow it down to 3 or 4 options.
3. Each unit leader goes back to their groups and the girls vote on which theme they want.
4. Leaders fill in a doodle poll based on the MAJORITY vote of their group
5. The theme that gets the most votes is the one we use.

It's that easy! How do you and your groups choose camp themes or activities?