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If you're aiming to make your meeting more engaging while teaching your girls about respecting authority, you're in the right place! Here are some fun and educational activities to help your girls understand and appreciate the roles of authority figures like parents, teachers, police, and leaders who help keep them safe by enforcing rules and directions. All while earning the Respect Authority Petal.
Consider incorporating these activities:
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Interactive Activities: Engage the girls with role-playing scenarios where they practice responding respectfully to different authority figures.
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Creative Craft Projects: Create visual aids like posters or badges representing different authority roles, which can help reinforce their importance and responsibilities.
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Energetic Games: Organize games that involve following directions and teamwork, emphasizing the value of listening and cooperation.
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Service Projects or Real-Life Experiences: Plan a community service project or field trip to interact with authority figures, allowing the girls to see their roles in action.
Optionally, you could include a related song to reinforce the lesson through music.
These ideas should help make your meeting both enjoyable and educational!
Use this Respect Authority Activity booklet and take your girls on a garden adventure, helping a family of fairies on a mission to teach the world how to live by very important values. Using the leader booklet and the girl’s activity booklet, your girls will complete lots of activities to help their fairy friends plant flowers and water gardens and learn how to put important values to live by into action.
With step-by-step activities planned, all you have to do is gather the supplies listed. You can’t ask for an easier way to run your meeting.
Using some of the scenario’s below have your girls act out different scenes. These scenarios are ways to have girls give their opinion on how they would handle a situation.
Scenario ideas:
- A police officer talking to a student about being out past curfew
- A principal talks to a student about having a cell phone in school
- A teacher talks to a student about talking while she is talking
- A parent talks to daughter about helping clean the house
- A GS Leader talks to girl about being a sister to every girl
Further Authority Discussion
I think its important to talk further about how parents are authority figures. Just like you need to respect authority in public it is important to respect our moms and dads at home. Explain to your girls the importance of family time with your girls and that when spending time with family to respect their parents authority.
Preparation: Gather two 6-inch pipe cleaners and one 12-inch pipe cleaner for each girl.
Activity Instructions: Create "respectacles" with the pipe cleaners. Twist the ends of the 12-inch pipe cleaner together to form a circle for the lenses. Twist the circle in the middle to create two connected circles. Attach a 6-inch pipe cleaner to each side of the circle and bend the ends to fit around the ears. Explain to the girls that these are their "respectacles"—special glasses for seeing respect in action.
Have the girls put on their respectacles and read a short children’s book about respecting or disrespecting authority. Some suggested titles include:
After reading, discuss with the girls whether the behavior in the book was appropriate. Ask them to suggest what could have been done differently if the behavior was not respectful. You can find these books at the library or purchase them on Amazon.
Here’s a fantastic way to help your girls think about respecting authority in various areas of their lives: hold a brainstorming session where they discuss different categories related to respect.
The most effective way to teach respect for authority—and for everyone—is by modeling respectful behavior yourself. I’ve found an excellent resource that offers a range of ideas for games, crafts, and practical ways to demonstrate respect. Check it out for inspiration! Click here
You can get the following song audio by going here: Listen to Those in Authority
Listen to those in authority, always behave.
Honesty, sincerity, are traits that you should gain.
Caring, sharing, helping out, raise your hand and wait,
Till you’re called on for your turn. Study hard, give your best,
And you will pass the test!
(Chorus)
Listen to those in authority, teachers, principals.
Listen to those in authority and do just what you should.
No words of hate, no lies, be kind and everyday try hard to get along.
Respect yourself and others. Choose right over wrong.
Respect yourself and others. Choose right over wrong.
No words of hate, no lies, be kind and everyday try hard to get along.
Respect yourself and others. Choose right over wrong.
Respect yourself and others. Choose right over wrong.
Listen to those in authority, your heart knows what’s right.
Bullying is always wrong, and it’s not good to fight.
Appreciate every race, everyone’s unique. Work together as a team.
That’s what we need in our school. Be good, obey the rules.
(Chorus)
I found this on Amazon a while back and let me tell you its a great way to get your girls talking.
It has amazing scenarios to work through, plus there are many cards that will fit into any value you want to teach your girls. So make sure to pick out the ones you want for the specific value you are working on.
Girls can turn learning into a game and the girls will want to play it. You can play it like a card game using the 10 traits: Caring, Citizenship, Cooperation, Fairness, Forgiveness, Honesty, Relationships, Respect, Responsibility, and Safety.
Well of course give them the respect authority petal, If you are like many leaders, to display proudly on their v, of course, give them the respect authority petal; ifally If you are like many leaders we want to award our girls when they complete something even beyond just the patch. One great way to show achievement is with a certificate. Don’t worry you don’t have to make them, I found a resource that has done all the work for you and all you have to do is print them and customize the certificates with each girl’s name, badge or award earned, date, and troop leader.
Editable certificates perfect for awarding girls after earning a badge.
You are going to love this cute adorable fun patch to put on the back of your girl’s vest. This goes with the Petal Fairy Program mentioned at the beginning of this post. You can buy each petal patch individually or as a complete set.
Enjoy every minute being a leader and continue to inspire your girls!
