Girl Scouts of the Philippines

MISAMIS ORIENTAL COUNCIL

Cagayan de Oro City

CELESTIAL CEREMONY (STAR SCOUTS)

Place: A garden, or lawn, or wide hall

Equipment: Magic Carpet

Part I – Introduction

Troop Leaders (North Star and Morning Star) stand at the center of the garden or hall
with the Magic Carpet in front of them.

Step 1- The Star Clusters by turns enter hopping and skipping and singing their rhyme
songs until they reach their troop leaders. They quietly form a semi-circle around the Magic
Carpet, stand at attention and sing their respective songs(We’re the Little Bright star)

STARLIGHT

a.) We’re the star lights shining through

Brave and helpful to all of you

STARDUST
b) We’re the stardust on our way
To help the people everyday.

STARGLOW
c) We’re the star glow watch us grow
Helpful, truthful wherever we go

STARBEAM

d) Here we are the jolly star beams

Helping people where trouble gleams

STARRAY

e) Here we are the sparkling star rays

Giving help with a smiling face.

Step 2- Morning Star comes forward, executes the Girl Scout sign to North Star returns it,
and then announces aloud:

“North Star, we have found a little Twinkler, little Twinklers

In the Starry Circle who wants/want to join our Stars”.

Step 3- (Morning Star then fetches the Twinkler/Twinklers who are hiding nearby behind
some improvised cloud or bush or plant). North Star “Let her/them come forward”

Step 4- North Star: “Tell me, why do you want to become a star?”

Step 5- Twinkler: “I want to bring light.” If more than one is to be invested, each one
should give a different answer, such as “I want to be ‘truthful’ ‘helpful’, ‘obedient” etc.

Step 6- North Star: “Stars are little children who brighten their homes with smiles and
deeds. Each Star has to make happy everyday, her mother, or father, or brother, or sister. She
has to keep herself brightly shining buy being clean, truthful, and obedient. Do you want to
become such a Star in your Home?”

Step 7 – Twinkler: “Yes, North Star, I do/we do

Step 8 – North Star: “Very well, twinkler you come to the right place. But before you
join the clusters, you have to make a promise. Will you say your Promise now?”
Part II – Investiture

Step 9 – Twinkler with her right hand executes the Star Scout Sign, make her promise
before the North Star.

Step 10 – North Star returns the sign with the Girl Scout Sign and then pins the Star
Scout membership pin on the left collar of the Star Uniform.

Step 11 – She then welcomes the girls to the troop with the Girl Scout Handshake and
Sign, saying: “Welcome to Star Troop No. ______ of the Misamis Oriental Council of the Girl
Scouts of the Philippines.”

Part III – Follow-up

Step 12 – North Star: “Now you are truly a member of the Star Scout Troop. But before
your Star Cluster can accept you, your mother will put on your Star Scout Cap.”

(Mothers or guardians should be given special seats in front of the circle to facilitate this
part of the program.) The mother comes to the circle and puts the cap on her daughter.

Step 13 – North Star: “ We, welcome you to Milky Way.” The Stars from a big circle
around the Magic Carpet, holding hands and then dancing to a song of their choice.

Part IV Special; Features

The Star Clusters show special numbers they have prepared for the new Star Scouts, who
are given places at the center of the hall, and are crowned with cardboard star crowns made by the
girls themselves.

Each Star Cluster, as a group presents a dance, or song, or drama, etc.

Guidelines:

1. After the ceremony, refreshments may be served. This however, is not necessary and
depends on the girls’ choice. Star Scouts should handle as much of the preparation and
serving as possible.

2. Parents, members of the troop committee, school officials, sponsor, and friends of the
troop may be invited to witness the ceremony.

They may participate by:

a) putting the cap on the girl

b) standing beside or behind her as she makes the Promise;
c) telling a brief story that has relevance to the Promise or bears a moral lesson that
girls can understand.

3. Parents or other adults participating should be briefed in advance.

4. Rehearsal of the ceremony would certainly insure its success.

5. Other features which may be planned and added to the set ceremony are:

6. The Celestial Ceremony officially accepts the recruit called “Twinkler” as a full member
of the Girl Scout Organization. It is therefore essential that the girl should have earned
this right to belong to the movement by having accomplished the requirements for
membership.

7. This will be the first occasion when the girl wears her uniform. It is important that an
inspection of the uniforms be done before the ceremony.

8. Membership pins should be collected (if the girls have them) and placed on a tray or
container in readiness for the ceremony.