Seed Planting and Sit Upons

Today we started the "It's Your Planet" journey which focuses on gardening. The girls colored one of three characters from the story -- that's the page they brought home -- and then Lisa read the first chapter of the story which is about the three girls walking home from school, seeing an overgrown community garden with a daisy growing in it, and then falling asleep in the sun.

The girls all picked out and started seeds that will hopefully sprout into plants that we'll plant in our community garden plot.

And, they worked on making Sit Upons. Sit Upons are a classic Girl Scout craft -- everybody makes some version of them. They're used on camping trips and hikes (and we thought they'd be useful in the garden) to sit on and keep bottoms dry on damp ground. The girls really concentrated on their sewing and were making great progress, but we didn't quite get them done so we sent them home for finishing. Feel free to stuff a couple plastic bags in them for extra padding if you'd like.