FIT FOR A PRINCESS PATCH PROGRAM

Just about every young girl likes to pretend and perform. Fit for a Princess is about playmaking. It’s about girls having fun and using their imaginations. It’s about every girl getting the chance to be a princess…and to perform for others. Fit for a Princess is a FREE nutrition and physical activity patch program for Junior Girl Scouts. Its goal is to encourage Junior Girl Scout age girls to eat smart and be physically active. (Small fee to cover shipping costs.)

The central activity of the Fit for a Princess patch program is readers’ theater, a short skit with educational messages embedded in it. Once they’ve practiced, girls are encouraged to perform for an audience of parents, younger girls, senior citizens, or other community groups. In readers’ theatre, girls don’t memorize their lines, they read them. There are no stage settings required, and few props. In the process of practice and performing, girls develop self-confidence, use their imaginations, and build self-esteem.

The program is made available by the Texas Beef Council and consists of quantity copies of the full color activity booklet, durable paper tiara, cloth patch, a letter to families explaining the program and one leader guide for each troop. The readers’ theater script is included in each girl’s activity booklet as well as the easy-to-assemble tiara, puzzles, recipes, and a choice of cooking and fitness activities to earn the patch.

Eat Smart - It’s All about You Patch Program

Junior and Cadette Girl Scouts can receive help to face today’s nutritional challenges and gain ideas on ways to adopt healthy, active lifestyles by participating in this patch program. Based on the It’s All About You campaign sponsored by the Dietary Guidelines Alliance, the patch activities include:
Be Adventurous: Take a snack-attack challenge
Be Realistic: Mirror, Mirror: Get the Body Image You Want

Be Flexible: Become a Youth Fitness Coach
Be Sensible: Is super-size the size you really want?
Other fun and educational materials include: Pyramid Power News (food guide pyramid facts), Sound Bytes on the Web (hot links to nutrition and fitness on your computer screen), What Counts as One serving guide, Looking for some ZIP (Zinc, Iron and Protein), recipes, and Fight Bac-teria Tips.

Girls may select from activities like: visit the fresh meat section with activities, plan a meal for your family, invent a new hamburger, interview your school cafeteria manager, or develop a two-day eating and activity plan with tips for troop members.

The patch booklets and patch request form can be downloaded from www.txbeef.org under Special Programs. Those who do not have computer access to download the booklets and patch form should complete the order form for the free booklets and patches, which are available while supplies last.