Girl Guides of Canada-BC

Announcing our World Thinking Day celebration: Guiding Lights Across BC - February 22, 2024!

Celebrate with BC Girl Guides in your community as we shine our Guiding lights in support of girl empowerment.

Local landmarks across the province (like stadiums, bridges, structures, and buildings) will help us celebrate by lighting up in "Guiding blue" after dark on the evening of February 22.

Locations across BC have agreed to participate, so you can go admire the blue Guiding lights shining that evening! Check out the map to see all of the locations across BC that will be participating (zoom out to find more locations).

Every year on February 22, Girl Guides celebrate World Thinking Day, a day of international friendship. It is an opportunity to speak out on issues that affect girls and young women, celebrate the founding of Girl Guides, and be connected to the 10 million members around the world who are part of the Guiding movement.

Here in British Columbia, we have thousands of girls and women who are members of Girl Guides of Canada. We have Girl Guide programs in nearly every community in BC and our girls/volunteers light up their communities year-round through leadership, community service, and efforts to create a better world, by girls.

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We also invite Guiding members and other supporters to light candles, make lanterns, and find other ways to shine your own Guiding lights from your homes, in your meeting locations, and around your neighbourhoods.

With your Girl Guide group, consider doing some crafting in the new year - you could decorate glass-jar lanterns, make luminary lanterns out of paper bags, or set up your own light displays in your windows or yards.

Here are some activity suggestions:

Activity Templates

• Make an upcycled lantern with an empty metal can and a hammer/nail
• Print, cut, and glue together a triangular lantern or cylindrical lantern made of paper
• Cut out candle drip protectors for a candlelit walk
• Make A DIY Kids Lantern Craft from recycled supplies (barleyandbirch.com) add a new lantern craft idea

Activity Ideas

Get visible in your community on February 22! Looking for inspiration?

• Go on a lit-up neighbourhood walk
• Put on your headlamps for a night hike
• Host a campfire singalong event at a local lit-up landmark
• Invite friends and families to join you for a lantern-making workshop
• Have a unit decorating contest to see who can decorate their home windows with the brightest bluest display
• Make blue/lit-up crafts as tray favours for a local seniors' home
• Organize a fun, blue-themed photo booth with lanterns, flashlights, and other light-up props

(Don't forget to snap photos of your activities – share them on social media by tagging @bcgirlguides and using the hashtag #ShineYourGuidingLight!)

Guiding Lights Crests

For Guiding members participating in World Thinking Day and Guiding Lights activities, or for those who want to be part of the fun, BC Guiding Lights crests will be available in the "Limited Edition Crests" section of the BC Crest Order form, starting on January 30, 2024.

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