Daisy Investiture

Myself and two co-troop leaders worked so hard to make this Girl Scout Daisy Investiture the best it could be.  The Investiture is the official welcome to new members into Girl Scouts.  New members receive their membership pins and we celebrate the joining of new 'sisters' into Girl Scouts.

This post is just a quick view of what our Investiture looked like.

I will go into details of our process and script at another time.  Soon.

We printed up Beginning Certificates, I wrote each girls' name and signed them, then they were laminated.  Each person's name plate housed their membership pin and was set onto of their certificate.

Saw this on Pinterest and we had to do it.

The set up was the parents were on either side of the 'stem,' at an angle, and the girls were set in the back, in two rows.

View from the girls' seats.  When they would be called to be pinned...

 ...they would walk up the stem...

...and stand in the center of the colorful daisy as they are pinned.

We ended up switching the candle table and certificate table.

Each candle stick represents a petal, which come from the Girl Scout Law.  The large white candle represents the Girl Scout Promise.  As we said them, we lit them.  It's one of the candle ceremonies of Girl Scouts. 

One of my co-troop leaders made this and each girl took a picture with it, as well as their families.

We plan to make photo book, and we will use the picture with this as the start of each of their books.

We barely got the Fall Product under the wire, we started late since we just became a new troop.

We put an order form on the front table.

Front table.  We had our programs and fall product on it.

Raven fell asleep, and stayed asleep (Heavenly Father always knows how to help me!), while we decorated for the event!

As the girls file in.

 Family!

The completed certificate table after it had been switched.

Cake table.

I made the cake.  The 'patches' are printed from the computer, I taped them to foil and cut them to shape, the council ID, insignia tab, and the troop spot was flattened banana Laffy Taffy.

This didn't turn out as good as I wanted it to be, but I didn't plan my time well enough to make it better.  Learn from my mistake, if you make a cake for an event, do it the night before, and just refrigerate it.  Don't worry about it drying out, that always puts me off for doing it the night before, but don't fear that.  If you do it the night before, you will save yourself time and stress.

Sign in table just before we start.

My co-troop leaders and me!

They are such great ladies!  They work hard for our troop and I am lucky to have two women that are such supporters.  I know other have, and others are, struggling to have reliable help in their troops.  I am blessed to have them with me!

I didn't mean to stick out my tongue.  This was about our fifth selfie, and I was trying so hard to make it a good one.

How did your Investiture look?

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See here how we planned and scripted our Investiture.

Update: Over last Christmas holiday sales, we purchased battery operated candle sticks as opposed to wax candles that need to be lit by a flame.  We hope this will make it easier and quicker during our Rededication this year.  Look for that next month!