Investiture and Rededication Ceremonies

These two ceremonies need to be done at the beginning of the Girl Scout year. Investiture is for girls who are new to Girl Scouting and Rededication is for girls who are returning. When do you have these ceremonies? First, there are several things each girl needs to know about being a Girl Scout. She needs to know the Girl Scout Promise, what the Girl Scout Law means, and who Juliette Low was.

She also needs to know the motto, slogan, and Girl Scout holidays. While they are learning this important Girl Scout information, the girls can be earning awards. Daisies can earn the Promise Center, Brownies can earn Girl Scout Ways, and Juniors can earn Girl Scouting in the USA. This can be accomplished in 3 or 4 meetings and then followed by the appropriate ceremony.

Make it fun and exciting. Invite parents and grandparents and serve refreshments. Let the girls help plan. If you have girls that have been in the troop the year before, let them be part of the ceremony -- reading parts, lighting candles, pinning new members, serving refreshments, or welcoming guests. Your ceremony can be simple with just pinning the new Girl Scouts, or more elaborate with a play about the brownie in the forest. Whatever you do, it should be a very special event so your girls will want to come back and their parents will want their daughters to be a part of the troop.

Here is a simple Investiture or Rededication Ceremony

Leader: We will now join together to participate in the investiture and rededication ceremony. You each have a card with your part. After you have recited your part, please come forward and light your candle from the friendship candle in the center of the table and place it in its holder.

Girls say the following parts: