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@RoseyLittle @Ricky H @SarBear55 @littlegala @Baby.M @DaddysCosmicBunny @SquirtleSquad @MissNMTX @innerchildtml @Emberella Hello all! Its the time you all have been waiting for!!! Our first assignment! The chapters are a bit longer so we are starting with just chapters 1-3. Make sure and stop once to get to the end of chapter 3. Assignments are every Wednesday. I should have questions out within a few days for those who plan on doing those. They are optional but alot of fun. So enjoy all!!!

shadowrider has placed all badges in your profiles that you've earned so far. If you've not earned one yet, you still have a GLOWWORM GUILD badge. When I'm sure everyone is finished with the SPRING INTO SPRING badge, I'll send him the list and he'll add those to those who have finished. You still have to midnight to finish it. I think the April badges should be up but if not, they will be tomorrow! Lots to do for next month! Y'all did great jobs! Juju💚🐛

Here's my nature drawing. I started with some Tulips. My community is very Dutch by ancestry and celebrates an annual Tulip Festival, so Tulips are planted everywhere, we are taught about them in grade school, and there's a huge fine if you pick the ones in the park or on public property. 🫣🙄... We also learned to Dutch dance in wooden clogs and have 6 parades in 3 days in mid May! 🤭🥰 Daisy's used to be my favorite. The simple, pure, white elegance of the flowers always drew me to them. I had someone who made them an unhappy experience, so I try my best to not hold it against the flowers... I also drew some trees, coz trees are the bestest creatures in the world! They live forever and are so wise!

This is my stuffie picnic. My Care Bear, named, Care Bear and my blue Alien, named Zarina are 2 of my favorites this week, so they joined me for a picnic, snack... I gave them each a Girl Scout Cookie and I got some sweet potato puffs! (Kinda pushing the line on too much sugar with the puffs, but one or two should be ok...🥰). The stuffie had pretend drinks coz I let them sit on my favoritest Hello Kitty blanky... I had water... coz it's all I can have...

Our 2nd badge! Yaaay! For those of you that wish to participate, here are the requirements to earn the "April Showers Brings May Flowers" : ( Activity suggestions are at the bottom of page.) BADGE: ~April Showers Brings May Flowers DATES: 4/1 - 4/30 REQUIREMENTS: 1. Pick a leader and ask them if they are available 2. Decide on 3 Activities below. Let your leader know, but you can change your mind if you decide you prefer not to do one you've picked. Just let your leader know which you've switched to. 3. When you are finished, take photos of everything you did and write a small explanation. If you're a little. Just take the photo. Activities: ( Choose 3-4) * Make a sun-catcher, and display it in your windows * Write a paragraph about the types of clouds there are, and what, if anything they do. * Create a cloud out of materials you have at home, e.g. - cotton balls, beads, yarn, pipe cleaners, tissue paper, etc.. use your imagination! * Create a Spring Bird Feeder * Plant A Container Fairy Garden * Cardboard cloud *Paper plate rainbow craft * Learn about April's Birth Fower- Daisy * Fly a Kite * Start to plan a Summer Bucket List * Make a flower, ladybug or butterfly, out of air dry clay. (Can purchase at Walmart, Craft stores, Amazon, etc) (Pinterest has lots of ideas and I've started a Glow Worm Guide Board, if you have a Pinterest account, you are more then welcome to follow it) ** If you do go to Pinterest or any other site, that's fine, but let me or your leader know what you're doing if it's NOT on the list above. Any questions fill free to ask. Leaders and their GWG member: 🐛 @beanbean: 🐛 @Daddy Bear 77: 🐛 @InspireDaddy 🐛 @shadowrider (substitute) 🐛 @Very Proud and Happy Daddy(substitute) These are thee leaders this month. You can ask here in thee comments. That way i can put who goes to who.

So I shared my answers before reading everyone else’s and I gotta say… Everyone’s answer for #2 is so meaningful/thoughtful. 😭 While mine is just like “idk, maybe he likes them? 🤷🏽‍♀️🐦” 🤣🤣🤣

Hi everyone! I just wanted to let y'all know there are going to be a few changes, such as how we do the badges, links to the badges for physical purchases if you want (No, I'm not affiliated with any of them in anyway), some organizational stuff going on hopefully to make our stuff run smoother and a few other things. Outside of our monthly virtual meeting, (which you do not have to use the video part by the way), I think we should have a monthly meeting at the beginning of the month also, here. Just a thought. I was able to get my computer so hopefully this will be allot easier to do lol. Have a happy Easter. Juju💚🐛

It’s still very much snow central up here in Canada (although the geese have come back today, meaning Spring is finally just around the corner). So I took my tiny humans for a hike to go explore and find/learn about any greenery that is still green even in snow. And find somethings to craft with. We found different kind of evergreen trees and lots of bunny tracks! We decided to craft a whole bunch of pinecone bird feeders and string them up in our trees. And eat a little peanut butter for ourselves. Yum yum! 🌲🌲🌲 Thank you for all your help @Daddy Bear 77

I mad little leaf bug friends using leaves I found outside! I picked ones that looked like wings and bodies and turned them into tiny buggies and a big butterfly!

This is my Fairy Terrarium. I planted Chia seeds in it. They should grow in a few days. I only planted a few, so I can do this over and over!

@RoseyLittle @SarBear55 @Fox H @littlegala @Baby.M @DaddysCosmicBunny @SquirtleSquad @MissNMTX @innerchildtml @Emberella Alright yall thanks for being patient!!! Here are your questions from chapters 4-6. Per usual remember to spoil and post in the topic linked below. Questions for chapters 7-9 will be up shortly. Questions: Post here: https://www.ddlgforum.com/topic/65741-beautiful-disaster-question-answers-spoilers/#comment-376550

@RoseyLittle @Ricky H @SarBear55 @littlegala @Baby.M @DaddysCosmicBunny @SquirtleSquad @MissNMTX @innerchildtml @Emberella Alright yall I know the site has been down but just keep doing your reading and as soon as its stable I will post questions. I have been amazed and impressed with participation so far so thank you guys! Now go enjoy chapters 7-9 friends!!!!

I've been thinking about how I wanted to label stuff and make it easier for us all to find, post, etc... I've about got that figured out so look for that to be up and posted by this weekend. Also, there will be differently things with the badge requirements, length of badges, etc... for example, * Day Badges will be up a week before they're actually due. So that you have that week before to work on them, and then the actual due date will be the day of the badge. * There will be different requirements given for little's and middles. But, not set in stone. If you are a little bit want to do middle you can. It'll mostly just be giving activity ideas for both. Anyway, this is just a few things coming up. ☺️ I hope y'all had a great Easter. I don't remember if i even told y'all that! Lol Juju💚🐛

@RoseyLittle @Ricky H @SarBear55 @littlegala @Baby.M @DaddysCosmicBunny @SquirtleSquad @MissNMTX @innerchildtml @Emberella Alright all I know you have been chomping at the bit for new chapters so feel free to now read chapters 4-6! Questions will be up in a few days. If you haven't checked in please do so!!! Once a week check ins are mandatory. Thanks all!

Here is my Autism Awareness Day submission. 1. Wear Blue/Puzzle Pieces- Work gave us bracelets and a pin for our lanyard to wear today. 2. Colored a drawing for the day 🙂 3. Autism Spectrum Disorder is a neurodevelopmental condition which affects the way a person perceives the world, communicates and interacts with others. There are varying degrees of the condition, which is why it is a spectrum, with high functioning on one end and low functioning on the other. Every individual is different, with differing needs and supports, but masking is a common theme among people with ASD. Masking is often a tool used by people with ASD to interact with others socially. It often looks like mirroring or the mimicry of one’s peers when one is unsure of how to act in a social situation. It can be driven by fear or a perceived lack of acceptance for being how one naturally is. Females mask more than males due to the perceived judgment for being “weird” and wanting to fit in. Females also face a societal expectation to be more mature and often internalize difficulties, which leads to masking how they are truly feeling. As a neurodivergent myself, which a brother who has Asperger Syndrome, I am glad there has been a shift towards understanding and acceptance for all on the spectrum. 💜 @beanbean or @Daddy Bear 77, could one of you sign off on this for me? 🙂

My Spring into Spring Badge I had a Teddy Bear Picnic with my super warm electric blanket as it was a cold day, my pink bear was the first one of them I ever got, his name is Gerald.... Therefore, to my daddy, they're all called Gerald. I have a very large and growing collection of them, our picnic only included 6 bears because they are the oldest which means they can leave the warm bed to eat snackies with me. We had to crowd in a bit to all get in the photo but everyone made it 😃 P.s. the duct tape covers a little hole it the wall, I'm so scared that a spiders gonna be living in it, so we covered it up for our picnic. I appear to have confused bird feeder and bird house 😅 please let me know if this doesn't count, we have 2 tiny little birdies that keep hanging around outside our door, so when i saw a paint your own birdhouse i thought it'd be perfect. It has to be pink of course! I'm sure the birdies also like pink, maybe that's why they hang around. My house still looks a bit rough, It needs a final coat of paint I also chose to draw and write about a flower, narcissus is the flower designated to birthdays in December, which makes it my birthday flower, so I thought it'd be fun to learn more about it! I hope this is enough to sign off on my spring badge, @Daddy Bear 77, please let me know, and thank you again for being my leader!!

Everyone that earned last month's badge has received it. You can check your profile and it should show in the badge section. Make sense, huh?🫣🤭 Thanks to our handy dandy @shadowrider. Thank you!!

@Daddy Bear 77 Here’s my tasks for the spring badge! Thank you so much for reviewing them! I chose to learn about azaleas because they’re so bright and pretty in the spring! I found out that they bloom in warm months and come in really beautiful colors! There were so many in my garden. I had a picnic with some of my stuffie friends! We had lots of yummy snackies and sat together watching Peter Rabbit.

I have completed my activities for the spring badge! Photos attached. The paragraph for the Wisteria is below the photos. @Daddy Bear 77 1: Planted all my vegetables! Cilantro, chives, basil, parsley, cucumber, squash, tomatoes, carrots, kale, lettuce etc 2: Spring Bird Feeders! 4 different ones for the cardinals and woodpeckers. 3: Pick a flower and write a paragraph about it! ^^ This is wisteria. It only blooms for about a month in the early springtime. It is native to both the US and Asia. There is Japanese Wisteria, which twists clockwise as it grows and Chinese Wisteria which twists counterclockwise as it grows. It can bloom in both purple and white, and is highly fragrant. It can reach up to 70 feet long and is highly aggressive, which can lead to it strangling mature plants and trees if not pruned properly. Both its flowers and seed pods are toxic to pets and humans but they sure are pretty to look at.

@RoseyLittle @Ricky H @SarBear55 @littlegala @Baby.M @DaddysCosmicBunny @SquirtleSquad @MissNMTX @innerchildtml @Emberella Hello all! Here is where the bulk of chat happens! So here is where yall can talk about the book (make sure to use spoilers!), where I will post check in messages, where I will post little reminders, ect. Yall are also welcome to just interact in general. Its a very low key section.

This month we are going to take a outing the zoo!!! Please let me know all of your favorite zoo animals so I make sure we visit those animals and pack for adventure!!! This will start our Zoo badge. I will even throw in a petting zoo animals so that can go towards our petting zoo part of the season challenge for everyone working on the spring challenges. We cant really touch them but I'm sure there are others like me unable to actually go to a petting zoo right now. Im planning a fun snack to tie into it just haven't figured out what I want to do yet once I do Ill post it so everyone who wants a snack can enjoy it. If you cant attend u still can earn the badge by going to the zoo in person or virtually to fulfil this part of the badge. Im so excited see everyone there!!!!

Here are my things for our Easter badge. I hope everyone had a lovely holiday! 💕🐣 @Daddy Bear 77 can you sign off on my badge please? I think I did all the pieces for the holiday weekend. 1. In our family we celebrate both Ostara and Easter at this time of year. We have certain traditions we do each year: we always paint eggs and bury them in our garden, I make Easter baking together with my girls, and we have a big Easter dinner with all of my siblings and their kiddos. It’s also a tradition to go to the experimental farm and agricultural museum up here. We get to see all the spring baby animals, make crafts, learn all about cocoa and eggs, and just generally have a hoot! 2. Here are the eggs my girls and I coloured: 3. As part of Easter Day the girls woke up to baskets from the Easter bunny and an egg hunt around the house. I played with them and their new toys and then made Easter cookies. Unfortunately my two year old threw her toy unicorn while we were playing and it landed on my foot and dislocated a toe - darn ehlers joints! But that couldn’t stop the day! (Just meant I had to wear slippers to dinner lol) After nap we went to the big family dinner with my family. It was both a wonderful day because of all the fun with my girls, and a hard one as the first Easter since separation but still going together as family. One of the best parts of my day was my Easter surprise Daddy made for me so I could have a little holiday magic too, something I haven’t had in a long time. So at the end of my day I got to do a virtual egg hunt with Daddy. 4. I coloured a picture for the season: 5. For the free activity I made sugar cookies and bird nest cookies with the girls:

OMG! Bit late to the reading, just finished chapter 1, but fun fact I'm currently studying the same thing as Travis! What are the chances😆

Daisy research! I found the best background for the info! It was so pretty!

Hi everyone!!! Can I just start a special music playlist for folks who are looking for healing? It can be whatever song helps you feel/express all kinds of feelings about the effects of trauma and what it means to heal. You Will be Found - Dear Evan Hansen Soundtrack What was I Made For- Barbie soundtrack My House - Matilda movie soundtrack Fix You- Coldplay Ex Factor - Lauryn Hill Hold Us Together- Matt Maher When I Look to the Sky- Train Little Wonders - Rob Thomas Shine your Way - Owl City At All Costs - Wish movie soundtrack I am Moana (ancestors song)- Moana movie soundtrack What it Sounds Like - Kpop Demon Hunters soundtrack The Story - Brand Carlile Here's the YouTube music link https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpa_dd22kI4d879jy4GG6U5BJJuJUDu4d&si=rx2xcuzd5t4ak2gM What playlist would you make for yourself or a friend? Feel free to add to this or make your own. What matters to you most when you listen to music, what do some of your favorite songs do for you??

Yay! Another great badge to work on. Thank you @Juju for the wonderful ideas. @Daddy Bear 77 Daddy will you please be my leader too? I’m gonna do a suncatcher, cloud making and fairy garden. 💕

GUUUUUUUUUUYSSSSSS THE BADGE JUST GOT LOADED ONTO MY PROFILE!!!!!

I posted mine Monday in the ‘pictures go here’ section. It’s titled Alise’s spring badge. ^-^

@RoseyLittle @Ricky H @SarBear55 @littlegala @Baby.M @DaddysCosmicBunny @SquirtleSquad @MissNMTX @innerchildtml @Emberella Alright friends, all the important topics are up and functional and ready for pur first assignment tomorrow! Go ahead and poke around to familiarize ypurself with them. Can't wait for this adventure!!!

started my spring badge today here's my teddy's bear picnic. I had to get up to do something after I ate and we were invaded my Zaida. My teddy bear picnic was attended my baby bear the little brown one, daddy bear the grey one and mistletoe the striped one. Princess Penelope the unicorn attended because she has a big boo boo so shes being watched closely and deserved some fun too

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Just a poll to see what would be the preferred "official" outfit for the group. Although we don't have physical meetings, it would be something we could wear for meetings, when we go out for adventures to earn badges, just for wherever or whatever we want to make us feel more like a connected Troop. Vote for your choices and if you have any questions please ask! Juju💚🐛

Jujus Spring into Spring,@MissAnna Here is my first requirement, I write a little paragraph about my favorite flower, with a picture of it. The picture is from the internet. But I wanted everyone to see incase they didn't know what it looked like.

I've been eyeing this! It looks bigger then I thought! You did such a great job!

Our first meeting was so much fun!!!! I really enjoyed meeting everyone and getting to know them! some things we discussed for future meetings are having a sleepover where we do things throughout the day/night that everyone can join as they can and we have fun doing crafts, games and general fun!!! board game meetings, virtual outings, service badges to help at animal shelters and other places, bowling night can be done via a game or home if needed I personally have no bowling allies near me, snacks we can all make during meetings and enjoy together. please let me know if there are any allergies I need to be aware of so I don't include them in a snack, mental health/ self care badge which will include making a calming bottle, homemade stress balls, bath bombs, lip gloss and so much more!!! camping night which includes crafts and pit tin campfire so we can have yummy s'mores!! and so much more fun stuff!!! I'm so excited for our future meetings. meetings also can be tied into our monthly badges so we can work on them together too. also we will keep track of who attends and badges can be earned for attendence. I am so excited for all of this Please let me know if u have any other ideas that may not have been brought up or I missed I kept notes but might of missed something

Just checking in to see how everyone is coming along with your badge activities? Just a few reminders also, * GWG first actual meeting, the 28th of March at 5:00pm (Eastern), contact @lillizzie24if you have any questions. * New badges will be posted on the 30th of this month. So you are able to decide which activities to do, if you'll need to get materials together, etc... They do not actually start until the 1st of the month. *Also, besides the monthly badge, there will be a few more day badges to earn coming up. And i believe @lillizzie24 might have us do badges that are decided on in meetings. I think. Anyway, stuff to look forward too! Also, i have an idea that i thought might be more fun, and something everyone can do, to show their badges earned. But i need to do one and we how it'll actually workout. Plus so i can also show you. So, stay tuned for that! Have fun and let your lights glow bright! Juju 💚🐛

@RoseyLittle @SquirtleSquad @MissNMTX @DaddysCosmicBunny All badges should be awarded now!! Thank you to ypu 4 for sticking with me and making this group amazing. It was a joy to read with each of you and I hope to see you in the next.

Hi everyone! Here are my pictures for the Sping into Spring badge! I had an indoor picnic with my little friend! It was the perfect occasion to catch up I asked him what he likes doing during the day when I leave home. His answer was pretty evasive...I think he might be up to something! Also, my best friend invited me on a walk in the forest and I found much material to make this wood fairy! Her hair is made of spruce needles, her top is made of moss, her pant is made of birch bark, her arms are tiny tree branches and her shoes are small tree cones My last picture for the month will be in the next post!

Here's my last picture! I drew many flowers and a tree As much as I like winter, I'll be very happy when spring arrives for real in my area 🌻 Thank you so much @Daddy Bear 77 for overseeing my badge this month! I had much fun doing these activites and I'm looking forward to doing my next badge Thank you all for your hard work and your time! Thanks @Juju 💛 (If anyone is curious, I had to make an album in the gallery to upload the pictures, but I changed the settings so that I'm the only one who can see the album itself. I think it worked.)

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Yes! I will be posting the particulars in a day or so. It's not until the 22nd. So, I'll post just about a week or so ahead. Probably on the 17th.

Here's my bird feeder! It's made from a recycled milk carton and I have another one to finish from a recycled water carton.

your easter eggs are sooo cute!!! and I really like the picture you drew is really good too!

Hi everyone! So, @SweetLittleDreamerasked me if it would be okay to start a personal "Badge Journal" where she could put all her info for her stuff in one place. And I have no problem with that, but... I will still need you to comment on the Badge thread like you have been. So, when i list another badge, that's where you will still need to go and ask for you leader, list the activities you want to do, and comment when you are finished. Otherwise, I have to go to each individual "journal" to see who is doing what and for me, I'll get overwhelmed and then I start shutting down. This is how I started things to keep track, and in my head, easier for me to do so. I will make a Seperate topic for just your Journals, if that's what you want to do. But, you still need to upload in the photo thread I already have established. I hope this doesn't upset anyone. I want you all to have fun. But, for me, and my tendencies, I have to keep doing it the way I have it set up but like I said, I really don't mind y'all doing it, you'll just have to do a little extra to keep both ways up. Thank you for your understanding. I really appreciate you all. SPEAKING of badges, I've decided I will start posting the Day Badges the Day before it starts. You CANNOT start the day badges however, until the day of the event. I just thought posting them a day ahead will give you a chance to get things gathered to start if you need to. Juju💚🐛

Chapter three Ultra minor character fact Just lightly humored about how Some fun timing going on here ✨

I'll happily be your leader @BabyPoppy. Oh a surprise sounds fun and I freaking love flying kites!

thank you! I'm going to create a cloud, research the daisy and create a summer bucket list

I love the wisteria! I didn't know anything about it! It's a beautiful flower!

I totally missed this post! I like the idea of dark blue for a uniform so we could maybe get overalls or the skirt kind (does that make sense??) and hear a fun onesie or t-shirt underneath it could be fun for summer badges to have an option for shorts/skirt/pants if we're camping and denim is resilient to lotsa washing...