Activity Sheets will not be physically mailed; they are meant to accompany the embroidered patch.
Please go back to the Patch Section to purchase the patch separately here: Run Toward Your Bravest Self – Year of the Horse Patch.

🐎🏮 Run Toward Your Bravest Self – Year of the Horse Lunar New Year Adventure – A Story-Led Journey of Courage, Creativity & New Beginnings! ✨🌕

Leaders, get ready to turn an ordinary troop meeting into a shimmering Lunar New Year story — full of glowing lanterns, swirling winds, secret heart cards, STEM tinkering, and giggly horse-powered races! This enchanting program invites girls to step into the spirit of the Horse: brave, bold, free, and ready to run into a brand-new year.

Scouts will paint their own Lanterns of Becoming, discover hidden Heartstones that invite gentle sharing, play with clouds, wind, and blossoms in Cloud-Chasing Creations, experiment with forces and motion in a Lucky Ingenuity Lab, and race together in joyful Courage Stride Races. The adventure ends in a quiet lantern circle, where each girl writes a Scroll of New Beginnings — a simple, powerful promise about how she’ll be brave this year — and receives her patch as a reminder that she’s already on her way.

📖 This is a self-printable program—nothing will be shipped!
Download instantly and bring the magic of Lunar New Year and the Year of the Horse to your troop meeting, multi-level event, or council celebration.

📜 What’s Included?

✨ Lantern of Becoming Jar Guide
Simple, kid-friendly instructions to help girls turn plain jars into glowing “becoming lanterns” that show who they want to be in the New Year.

✨ Heartstone Prompt Cards (Print & Cut)
At least 20 ready-to-print heart prompts for the Path of Stirring Hearts, including gentle, age-appropriate questions about courage, hopes, and new beginnings.

✨ Cloud-Chasing Creations Activity Sheets
Options for:

• Wind Wands (movement)

• Cloud Art (painting)

• Wind Stories (imagination)

• Optional Paper Blossom Branches for a Lunar New Year bloom moment

Each option comes with its own girl-facing instructions and leader notes.

✨ Lucky Ingenuity STEM Lab Cards
Three STEM challenge cards so you can pick your favorite:
• Wind-Powered Horse Racers
• Lantern Bridge Challenge
• Fortune Gliders
Each includes a clear goal, simple build steps, and “try this” variation ideas.

✨ Courage Stride Race Game Cards
Instructions for fun, themed race games:
• Horse Wheel Dash
• Lantern Relay Gallop
• Herd Harmony Race
Designed to build teamwork, laughter, and confidence in motion.

✨ Scroll of New Beginnings Templates
Printable scroll strips with the prompt “This year, I will be brave by…” and space for girls to write and roll their own New Year promise.

✨ Patch Ceremony Script
A warm closing script you can read word-for-word as girls sit in a lantern-lit circle, hold their scrolls, and receive their Year of the Horse patch.

📎 Printable Program Materials

• Program overview & sample timelines
• Pre-meeting prep & room setup checklist
• Lantern of Becoming jar instruction page
• Heartstone prompt sheets (print & cut hearts)
• Cloud-Chasing Creations options sheet
• Lucky Ingenuity Lab STEM cards
• Courage Stride race game cards
• Scroll of New Beginnings templates
• Patch ceremony script
• Leader notes for flexibility & inclusivity

💡 Courage, Creativity & Lunar New Year Magic

✔ Encourages girls to reflect on who they’re becoming and what bravery means to them
✔ Gently builds confidence in sharing thoughts during Heartstone circles
✔ Sparks creativity through lantern jars, cloud art, wind wands, and paper blossoms
✔ Introduces basic STEM concepts through fun, low-prep motion and engineering challenges
✔ Gets girls moving, laughing, and cooperating through themed race games
✔ Ends with a meaningful ritual that ties the whole adventure to the New Year

📚 Complete Print-at-Home Program Kit Includes:

• Step-by-step leader guide (welcome through closing)
• Pre-meeting preparations & themed room setup instructions
• Activity sheets for all six “chapters” of the story
• Print-and-cut Heartstone cards
• STEM challenge cards & race game cards
• Scroll templates & patch ceremony script
• Inclusivity & age-flexibility notes
• Additional fun variations (Wishing Wall, blossom branch display, snack ideas)

🎖 Badge Connections for All Levels
(This program can help support steps toward these badges:)

🌼 Daisies:
• Art and Design Badge
• Courageous and Strong Petal

🍀 Brownies:
• Art and Design Badge
• Mechanical Engineering: Race Car Badge

💠 Juniors:
• Art and Design Badge
• Mechanical Engineering: Balloon Car Badge

💜 Cadettes:
• Outdoor Art Apprentice Badge
• Field Day Badge

💗 Seniors:
• Sky Badge
• Game Visionary Badge

💚 Ambassadors:
• Outdoor Art Master Badge
• Coaching Badge

🏆 Why Leaders Love It:

✔ Story-led, but easy to run with clear scripts and chapter-by-chapter guides
✔ Flexible options so you can choose movement, art, or STEM based on your troop
✔ Works beautifully for single-level or mixed-level troop meetings
✔ Mostly uses simple, easy-to-find supplies (jars, paper, ribbon, cardboard)
✔ Feels special and meaningful without requiring huge prep time
✔ Gives every girl a keepsake lantern, scroll, and patch that capture her brave beginning

🌟 Start Your Year of the Horse Adventure Today!

Help your Scouts paint their courage, share from the heart, race with their “herd,” and choose a brave first step into the New Year. They’ll finish with glowing lanterns, treasured scrolls, and their Run Toward Your Bravest Self – Year of the Horse patch — a beautiful reminder that when a girl takes even the tiniest brave stride, she’s already running toward her strongest, truest self. 🐎✨

👉 Click “Add to Cart” to download your program today!
🔗 Don’t forget to purchase the patch separately here: Run Toward Your Bravest Self – Year of the Horse Patch.