CELESTIAL CEREMONIES

PLACE: A garden, or lawn, or wide hall, or park

EQUIPMENT: Magic Carpet

PART I. Entrance
Troop Leaders (North Star and Morning Star) stand at the center of the garden or
hall with the Magic Carpet infront of them

Step 1. The Star Cluster 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.

a) We’re the Starlights shining through

Brave and helpful to all of you.

b) We’re the Stardust on our way

To help the people every day.

c) We’re the Starglow watch out grow

Helpful, truthful wherever we go.

d) Here we are the jolly Starbeams

Helping people where trouble gleams.

e) Here we are the sparking Starrays.

Giving help with a smiling face

Step 2. Morning Star comes forward, executes the Girl Scout Sign to North Star who
returns it, and then announce aloud:
“North star, we have found a little Twinkler in the Starry Circle who wants to join
our Stars.”

Step 3. (Morning Stars when fetches the Twinklers who are hiding nearby behind some
improvised cloud or bush or plant)
North Star “ Let her 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 good
deeds. Each star has to make happy everyday her mother, or father, or brother, or
sister. She has to keep herself, brightly shining by being clean, truthful and
obedient. Do you want to become such s Star in your Home?”

Step 7. Twinkler: “Yes, North Star, I do.”

Step 8. North Star: “Very well, Twinkler you have come to the right place. But before you
join the Clusters, yo have to make a promise. Will you say your promise now?”

Step 9. Twinkler with her right hand at Star Scout sign, makes her promise (as in the
investiture ceremony) before the North Star, clearly, and loudly, but slowly.

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. She then welcomes the girl
to the troop with the Girl Scout Handshake and Sign saying: “Welcome to Star
Troop No. ______ of the PANGASINAN COUNCIL of the Girl Scout of the
Philippines.
Step 11. North Star: “Now you are truly a member of the Star Scout Troop. But before you
Star Cluster can accept you, your mother will put on your Star Scout Beret.”
(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
beret on her daughter.

Step 12. Morning Star then comes forward to take back the new Star Scout and both walk
to the Star Cluster where she will belong.

Step 13. North Star: “We welcome you to the Milky Way.”
(Note: the Milky Way is the ring of Stars)
The Stars form a big circle around the Magic Carpet, holding hands and then
dancing to the song: Ex. (Star Song or Twinkle Twinkle Little Star)

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

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