February 23, 2005
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Help!!!!!
Tomorrow night is my Girl Scout meeting if we don’t get snowed out. I am wondering if you have any tried and true homemade personal care recipies that are simple to make and safe for girls who are in 6th and 7th grade.
I found a bathsalt recipe and a few skin care recipies such as oatmeal scrubs on the web, but if you know of any, please share. I could not find the lip gloss recipe made with pixie sticks and I think vasaline, if you know that one, please share. Tomorrow night we are going to talk about body image, and how we can look pretty without looking trashy, how we have to take pride in ourselves. We are going to look at fashion magazines and try to find out what angle they are trying to play to get you to buy their merchandise, and we are going to make these skin treatments. I am planning a trip to a local women’s gym so they can try out the equipment, and we are going to talk to the local vocational school so they can go and check out different hairstyles (but those are future meetings).
This badge is one that they are working on in preparation for their silver award. They chose to ultimately earn their award by going to a local family shelter and giving the women a day of beauty. They plan to invite in hair dressers, contact a clothing bank for work clothes, some are going to work with the children and do arts and crafts and they want to do a luncheon for the women and children. I am so proud of this group of girls. Last year they earned their bronze award by making five quilts for the battered women’s shelter. They love doing community service work.
Thank you for your ideas.
Heather
Comments (11)
These are all such wonderful things. Girls can be so great. One thing my small group of high schoolers did was to make Valentines for the shut-in members of our church. I bet your girls could do somehting similar quite easily sometime.
Aww that’s awesome. I hope it goes well.
Ach! I just read your post and it is thursday morning. I will go look in some of my cookbooks in the kids section to see if I can find anything simple. I will be back…
I couldnt find anything in my cookbooks, but I found an awesome site…it is the first link. It has tons of ideas…I am keeping it for my own use also…
http://familycrafts.about.com/od/recipecollections/
These next two have some ideas also…
http://www.stretcher.com/stories/980423b.cfm
http://www.pioneerthinking.com/chfacials.html
I will keep looking….I hope I am not to late with this…
This is what I have found so far, some for their notebooks, some to make in meeting:
Moisturizing Bath salts: (we will be making this)
2 cups epsom salts
1 tsp glycerin
few drops food cloring
few drops scented oil
Mix in Baggie.
Gentle facial cleanser (for their notebooks)
1/2 cup oatmeal or cornmeal
enough yougurt to form a paste
Rose Skin Toner (we will be making this)
3/4 cup rosewater
6 drops glycerine
2/3 cups witch hazel
Blend and shake
Cherry Berrry Bubble Bath (we will be making this)
1/2 cup unscented shampoo
3/4 cup water
1/2 tsp salt
15 drops cherry fragrance oil
Lip Gloss (we will be making this)
small amount of petroleum jelly (like 3/4 film canister full)
1 pixie stick candy
Blend
I want to keep this simple and neat. My girls can make a mess if given the opportunity even at their age.
And I am going to find a few teenage fashion type magazines (watching the articles of course) and we are going to look at things like brand names, the kinds of articles printed in the magazine and the message.
Then if we have time we are going to play bad American Idol. They loved that a few weeks ago. I have them form groups and sing or dance really badly, they were a pile of giggles after that.
I just wish there was a good moisturizer recipe for them.
Thanks for looking at those websites for me.
Heather
hi, found this site: http://www.hgtv.com/hgtv/ah_personal_care_bath_body/article/0,1801,HGTV_3144_2979673,00.html
type in Moisturizing recipes. A few were listed. Good luck and have fun.. I like the lip gloss one, sounds good. I thank you!
Hi, I found another place; ya gotta check it out!
http://www.recipes4learning.com/view.php?id=78 I put it on my favorites AND bookmarked it!
Hi
I can’t help with the recipes. Homemade playdough is about what I’m up to at this point.
Have fun. Love the bad AI idea. On TV, I only watched open auditions because they were just so hysterically awful.
Hi Heather! Sounds like you are up to your eyeballs in girlie stuff….how fun! Think I will check out some of these sites too….what an awesome thing to do!!!
Have fun!!!
Just got back from the meeting. The girls had a great time mixing up their concoctions and experimenting with scents and things. We did not get to the fashion magazines, that will be next week, along with skin care. Then we have to experiment with hairstyles. For community service we are going to do a toiletries drive to collect for our local shelters. And explore the kinds of jobs available in the fashion industry. I almost miss being a Brownie leader where they girls just had to try four activities. Now they have to do seven to complete a badge and they are intense activities. But what a sense of accomplishment they have. We are also looking forward to our upcoming trip to Washington DC which is coming up in a few weeks over spring break. Not only the trip to Washington DC but also an airplane ride. What fun.
Heather
I’m probably too late, but maybe you could use this one next time. The girls may or may not like it, but you can make sugar-wax at home and wax your legs. It’s cheap, but it takes a little practice (to cook). If you are interested, let me know and I’ll dig up the recipes I have. Most call for sugar or honey, water and lemon juice, a candy thermometer, wooden sticks (tongue depressors work well) and muslin or cotton strips