20+ Daisy Girl Scout Sunny Petal Ideas (Friendly and Helpful Patch)

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Inside: Ready to inspire your Daisy Girl Scouts with kindness? Check out this blog packed with 20 creative ideas to earn the Sunny Petal! Discover easy meeting plans, engaging crafts, book recommendations, and activities that help scouts practice being friendly and helpful. Whether you’re a troop leader or a parent, you’ll find everything you need to make earning this petal meaningful and fun. Affiliate partner links are used in this post.

Requirements To Earn the Daisy Girl Scout Sunny Petal

Check your local council's PDF since sometimes wording or requirements cary slightly. These are the basic requirements for earning the Sunny Petal.

1. Discuss “Sunny’s Story” working in the ideas of being friendly and helpful. Some examples of discussion questions are:

• • How did Sunny show that she was friendly and helpful?
  • How do you think Robin felt during the tour of the garden?
  • How do think Suzy felt when Buckley invited her to the party?

2. Make a drawing, mural or painting based on “Sunny’s Story.” Some ideas for this are:

• • The troop can make a group mural on a long stretch of easel paper.
  • Each scout can draw her favorite friendly moment of the story.
  • Your troop can paint a friendly or helpful scene from the story.

3. Practice being friendly and helpful. There are lots of ways to act like Sunny!

• • Brainstorm with the troop different ways they can be friendly and helpful at home and school.
  • Then pick one thing to do during the next week. You can also make a craft during your meeting to contribute to the friendliness.
  • Report back at the next meeting.

Other councils may word the requirements like this:

• Be Friendly and Helpful at Home
• Be Friendly and Helpful at your Troop Meeting
• Be Friendly and Helpful in you Community

You can read the Sunny story or watch the story here:

 

Daisy Girl Scout Sunny Petal Ideas

Our Sunny Meeting Plan

Here is what we did at our Sunny Meeting to be friendly and helpful in our troop, and then I have a whole collection of ideas further down. We did this meeting right after winter break, and we were pretty low key about it.

Prep: Bookmarks are kind of my favorite go-to kids craft for this age because they are learning to read in school. They are quick, easy and can be used for pretty much ANY theme.

So I brought materials to make simple bookmarks:

• colorful cardstock cut in bookmark size strips
• hole punch
• 1/4 inch colorful ribbon
• markers
• stickers

Meeting Schedule

• Meeting Opening: Saying the pledge and the promise.
• Snack & Story: While the girls ate their snack we read the Sunny story from the binder and discussed it.
• Meeting craft: When we were done reading we talked about how, in life, we all know someone who can use a smile or a friend. We asked the girls to think of someone who could use a smile or a friend. It could be a family member who was sick, a new kid at school, a friend who got hurt on the playground, whoever they wanted. Then we decorated bookmarks to give to our special someone. The girls decorated them with markers and stickers, then punched a hole in the top and we tied on a ribbon. Any girls who got done with enough time left could do another one (most did).
• Community idea: If you choose to do bookmarks you could also opt to give them out at a nursing home or set them out at your local library as a random act of kindness.
• Home activity: We also asked the girls to think of a helpful task they could do when they got home and make sure they did it. 🙂

More Daisy Girl Scout Sunny Petal Ideas

Ideas for Earning the Sunny Petal

Below are some more super fun ideas for the Sunny Petal separated into categories to help you sort through quickly. Go ahead and click through for more details.

Daisy Girl Scout Friendly and Helpful Petal Crafts

• Daisy Girl Scout Kaper Chart – If you didn't start your year with a Kaper Chart, the Friendly and Helpful Patch is a perfect opportunity to involve the whole troop in making one.
• Kaper charts are common tools for Daisy Girl Scout troops to make sure everyone is involved in running a smooth meeting. It's similar to a chore chart. (The one we have this year is a job wheel shown in my New Girl Scout Leader Tips post.)
• This chart, in particular, I couldn't pass by. You have the girls pick a drawing of a Daisy Girl Scout that they want to represent them, color them in, and then they're glued to clothespins. Then at each meeting they get a different role- a way to be helpful to the whole troop!
• Pinecone Bird Feeder – Being kind to animals counts too!
• Sunflower Fork Painting – These sunflower paintings are so cute. They're great for the Daisy Scouts, giving them a fun activity where they can practice listening, following directions, and even work their fine motor skills.

Printables for the Daisy Girl Scout Sunny Petal

• Daisy Girl Scout Printable Helping Hands Coupon Book – This coupon book is a fun activity and a cute way for the girls to practice being friendly and helpful. They give the coupons to their parents to use when they see the girls demonstrating the acts on the cards. What a helpful way to earn that Daisy Girl Scout Sunny Petal!
• Friendly & Helpful Done-For-You Superhero Meeting Pack
• Friendly and Helpful Petal Tracing Worksheet
• Daisy Girl Scout Sunny Petal Coloring Page

Daisy Girl Scout Friendly and Helpful Petal Activities

• Put-Ups and Put-Downs – Anti-Bullying Activity
• Role Play Making a New Friend
• ‘A Daisy Was Here' Helping Hands Activity – Here's an activity for the girls to once again display acts of being friendly and helpful within their own home. The girls' trace their hands on construction paper and write ‘A Daisy Was Here' on them. Once they perform three acts of being friendly and helpful and their helping hands are planted, they're all set!
• “Friendly or Not?” Game – A great game for earning the Daisy Girl Scout Sunny Petal is ‘Friendly or Not?'. Using masking tape, you make a line on the ground. You'll have a series of statements for the girls to listen to. After you read one, the girls need to make a decision on if the statement was someone being friendly or if they were not being friendly. When the girls are ready to make their decision, they jump on the side of the tape that matches their answer. This could actually be done twice with your troop. Have them play the game before going too much into the learning of the Sunny Petal, and then again at the end of the unit. You'll be surprised how much the girls will have learned and retained – which means a petal well earned!
• Friendship Squeeze – For New Troops this is a great opportunity to learn the standard friendship squeeze, which can then be done at the end of every meeting. We taught our girls to cross their hands right over left, because “we're not leftovers!” When you stand in a circle with your hands crossed this way, at the end of the squeeze, the girls can lift their hands together, over their heads and spin out of the circle.

Books for the Daisy Girl Scout Sunny Petal

• A Friend is Someone Who…  A sweet book about how to spot and how to be a good friend.
• Stick and Stone – This cute buddy story is about how Stick and Stone became friends and had to deal with bullying. It's written in a rhythmic nature that is perfect for keeping the attention of your young scouts. A sweet and funny tale that will get your troop one step closer to their Sunny Petal badge!
• The Berenstain Bears and the Trouble With Friends – The Berenstain Bears are a classic in children's literature. This story, in particular, tells the relatable story of a new child moving into the neighborhood, and how wanting to make friends doesn't always go as planned. Before getting to the book's resolution to the friendship problem, ask your Daisy Girl Scouts what they think a good solution would be.

Sample Meetings for the Daisy Girl Scout Friendly and Helpful Petal

• OCD Girl Scout Leaders – This troop did the traditional Girl Scout Friendship Squeeze. It fits perfectly into what the Sunny petal stands for and there's never a bad time for a troop Friendship Squeeze!
• Creating Butterflies has a nice Sample Agenda for their Sunny Petal Meeting.
• Rancho Oaks has a comprehensive document outlining their first Four Girl Scout Meetings, including the friendly and helpful petal meeting.
• What are you planning for your Sunny Petal meeting? So many Friendly and Helpful patch ideas to choose from! Share yours below to do a good turn today!

Daisy Gifts and Gear

Be sure to check out my Troop Trove story for great gifts and gear for girls and leaders!

 

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