It can be very meaningful to give the girls' their World Pin (the blue/gold one) in conjuction with World Thinking Day - February 22nd. Here's a ceremony to to learn about the pin, and you build it with felt. It's better to use the "old" style of graphic, easier to make out of felt.
Items Needed Flannel board
Blue flannel cut into one large circle, two
stars, one compass needle
Yellow flannel cut into one large trefoil (leaves
only), one large circle band (to go around blue circle), and one stem (with
flames at the base). You may wish to be more elaborate by adding a flag ceremony
and/or candlelighting ceremony.
Q: What is the World Association pin?
A: It is the pin of the World
Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. It is a symbol that has deep meaning
for all Girl Guides and Girl Scouts. The symbol also appears on the WAGGGS flag.
We are going to construct such a pin. As we do, let us consider very carefully
the reason for its color and design. Then we will know how deep a feeling of
international friendship it can inspire in us.
Q: Why is the World Association pin blue? (Put up blue background.)
A: The field of bright blue in our pin symbolizes the sky above us all
throughout the wide, wide world. We thus carry out the words of Robert
Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scout movement, who asked us to "Aim high, look
wide."
Q: Why do we have a trefoil in the World Association pin? (Put up
trefoil.)
A: On the background of blue, we place a gold trefoil because Girl
Guides and Girl Scouts everywhere make a three-part Promise.
There are two stars on the World Association pin.
Q: What does the
left star stand for? (Place blue star on trefoil's left.)
A: We place on
start at the left - the side of the heart. This star stands for the pledge that
all Girl Guides and Girl Scouts try, on their honor, to keep - their Promise.
Q: What does the other star stand for? (Place star on other side.)
A:
On the right side, the side of the ready and helping hand, we place the star
which stand for our Girl Guide/Girl Scout code of conduct - the Girl Guide/Girl
Scout Law.
Q: What does the pointer mean on our World Association pin? (Place blue
compass needle in center of trefoil.)
A: We place a compass needle in the
center of the gold trefoil, between the safeguards of the Promise and the Law,
to serve as a guide pointing the way to the right course in life.
Q: What does the base of the trefoil mean? (place base on board.)
A:
At the base of the fold trefoil we place the flame. Its burning stands for the
love of human kind and is the true flame of international friendship that burns
I all our hearts. May this flame encircle the world with goodwill.
Q: What does the gold circle stand for? (Place gold circle around the
blue field.)
A: This gold band surrounding our pin symbolizes the sun that
shines on children all over the world.
Let us all, Girl Guides and Girl Scouts around the world, keep the
meaning of the World Association pin as our inspiration in all that we do.