Brownies - Parauri

What do Brownies do?

Learning new and exciting things earns girls a wide variety of badges, patches and certificates, which girls find challenging and fun. Girls get to go on outdoor adventures and have weekend indoor holidays together.

Brownies also get to choose from a wide range of fun activities based around a theme either working as a whole group or as a team.

Themes include:

• Act up – try a variety of performance activities, make-up, masks and special effects.
  
• Colours – create a unit or six flag, find out how colours affect our lives, or cook with colours.
  
• Flying things – build a scorpion flyer, Japanese windball, play the glow work game.
  
• Jumps and bumps – discover how electricity works, make a volcano or make hokey-pokey.
  
• Night watch – have a progressive dinner, disco night or do a night trail.
  
• Rainbows – make a rainbow, have a rainbow party or look for gold at the end of a rainbow.
  
• Ropes and Poles – build a commando bridge, chariot, bazooka or other fun pioneering projects.
  
• Switch it – go on a switch hunt, create sand art, make paper and lots more.
  
• Wheels – have a go at a bike obstacle course, visit a petrol station and find out what’s behind the scenes, etc

More fun things Brownies do include Brownie Revels, special days when you get together with Brownies from other units and share lots of fun and excitement and do adventurous things together! Outdoor activities at Brownies can include, swimming, skating, bike riding, water activities and getting out and about in the community.

What do Brownies wear?

Brownies have a whole range of uniform items to wear including a pink T shirt with their own Brownie logo on it. Girls also get to wear a sash for all the badges they earn.

Brownies – for those who live in isolated areas

Girls who because of distance can’t go to units in their area are still able to do our programmes. We call these girls Lones, [Lone Brownies]. The activities are the same but adapted to use other forms of communication, email, mail, internet, etc. Lones are encouraged to join in other activities with girls in their area when they can.

Brownies speak!

"I love the activities we do and Linda and Gladys."
Erin, Burwood Brownies

“Today was a Challenge Nine day. Me and my friend Hayley had tons of fun. We made beaded butterflies and toasted bananas on the BBQ.”
Emma and Hayley, Kendal Brownies

“We are the Canterbury North District Brownies and we like sport, ice-cream, tennis, art, dancing and music. At Brownies we do lots of fun stuff.”
Ashlee, Samantha, Charlotte, Brooke and Indya

“At Challenge Nine, we did lots of things. First we started with singing, then we went and surfed the net, after we made sandwiches and butter …”
Brianna, Katie and Britni

“I didn’t want to migrate to Guides because I was having the time of my life at Brownies.”
Katrina, Auckland

“One challenge I faced was going to ERA 2000, my first jamboree; I had loads of fun including highlights of the flying fox and the flour and water fight.”
Courtney, Auckland

When girls are 9½ years old they progress to, Guides..