Daisy Girl Scout Investiture

Welcome girls and parents at the door.  Have girls sit with their parents until you are ready to start the ceremony.  You may design your own ceremony any way you wish; as long as it includes the opportunity for the girls to make the Girl Scout Promise and receive their Daisy Girl Scout pins.

Here is a sample design for a daisy investiture ceremony:

-call girls to the front, seat them in a half circle, facing you; you face the audience, read or tell the story of Juliette Low.

-Have the girls stand and face the audience.  As a group, girls make the girl scout sign and recite the promise.  Briefly explain the meaning of the handsign to the audience.

-Pin each girl with daisy pin and give them the girl scout handshake and welcome them to girl scouting.

-make a friendship circle and sing "make new friends"

-give each girl her beginning Year Certificate

-Invite parents and girls to share refreshments.

Here are some other helpful poems etc.....

Daisy Poem
Daisies are the happiest flowers that I’ve ever seen
Dancing in the sunshine with their leaves of green

Their faces always smiling bright, cheerful all the while
Anyone who sees their dance will surely have to smile

It takes a bit of magic to see the “Daisy Dance”
As the circle in the sunlight who will gaily leap and prance

A girl is not a flower, we all know it’s true
But pretty girls who dance and sing, in aprons of true blue

Will make the magic of the flowers seem real enough, no doubt
Especially when these girls exclaim “I’m A Daisy Scout”

Daisy Circle
Make and tape a large daisy to the floor of the ceremony site. Put the names of the girls in the troop on the petals. Use the Daisy Circle to group the girls before, during and at the closing of the ceremony.

Additional Ideas for Daisy Investitures
- Play Daisy to Daisy (pg 90, The Guide for Daisy Girl Scout Leaders)
- Invite a Brownie troop to help with the ceremony
- Have a flag ceremony
- Have each girl hold a real or artificial daisy during the ceremony