How we celebrated 100 years of World Thinking Day

We celebrated 100 years of World Thinking Day this year on 22 February.

And members, units and local areas all marked the occasion in so many brilliant ways!

World Thinking Day is a celebration of 10 million girls worldwide that has taken place on every 22 February since 1926. It remains a day for all girl guides and girl scouts to think of each other, feel connected to the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) and celebrate all around the world. 

From sledging to s’mores and sponsored walks, here’s how members in the UK (and with WAGGGS worldwide!) recognised this special day:

Petworth division celebrated with cake!' - Sussex Girlguiding

In Leamington, Warwickshire we held a district event for all units. Lots of fun activities!' - Girlguiding Whitnash and South Leamington

We spent today at Pax Lodge, it's our first time visiting and we’ve had a great day.' - Gemma

WAGGGS here in Florida celebrated at Disney World's World Showcase.' - Ashley

Our unit went sledging.' - Amy

We had a wonderful time in Wiltshire South with an incredibly organised World Thinking Day event!' - Charlotte

We had a district campfire and s’mores, and everyone played a countries quiz game called Passport to the World!' - Nicola

We had a 100 years of World Thinking Day activity day yesterday where 156 of us (from Rainbows all the way to adult volunteers) from Wallington Division, Greater London West, took part in crafts, a nature walk, made s'mores, sang around the campfire and had a promise renewal.' - Pippa

Tilly and I (joined by Buddy the dog) did a sponsored walk to raise money for Stilton Guides. We stopped and chatted about guiding with lots of lovely people, including some retired volunteers.' - Carol

And here’s how Pioneer, our adventure and youth panel, celebrated too…

'We held an event for the families of our Brownies and Guides where they did activities in groups. The activities were based on different eras of Girlguiding - I did 2002-26 with my Brownie group and 1909-29 with my Guides. They then presented what they'd learned. We also taught them ‘Thunderation’ and ‘This little guiding light of mine’!' - Xanthe

'We did the South West England Thinking Day Challenge!' - Sophia

My unit celebrated World Thinking Day every year in different ways. This year we played guiding games from other countries around the world. We also did our annual quiz about the history of Girlguiding and how it began. This year we spent time learning about the history and traditions of the different world centres, and shared photos and memories from international trips!' - Zara

'We met up with lots of units from our county, and we all celebrated with campfire songs, crafts and snacks.' - Lucy

'We joined in our region’s virtual sleepover event called Voyage Under The Stars, We also did a ‘secret Santa’ style gift swap and had night learning about guiding history.' - Amy

We had a district event in the afternoon. There was lots of crafts, like biscuit decorating, and outdoor games. I ran the campfire activity with everyone at the end to close the afternoon – and there was some tasty snacks.' - Aleena

'We did an activity where we designed cards to send to Guides across the world!' - Jenn