What To Do For Girl Scout Week?

On By Not So Creative MamaIn Girl Scouts

Girl Scout Sunday – Sunday March 6

  • Wear your Girl Scout uniform and take part in a service at your place of worship.
  • Complete “Your Faith and Girl Scout: Make the Connection”
  • Earn the My Promise, My Faith Pin
  • Think of three different ways you can serve God or your country. Do one of them.
  • Do a good deed for someone.
  • Think of three different ways you can serve God or your county. Do one of them.

Service to Family and Friends – Monday March 7

  • Say “Hello” and smile to as many people as you can today.
  • Do something to help someone without being asked.
  • Visit with an elderly friend or family member.
  • Write a note to a family member or friend about how much you appreciate them and why.
  • Do something extra special for your family or a friend and leave them a note.
  • Make a friendship gift for someone special.
  • Be extra nice to your siblings. Do a good deed for them.
  • Plan a route and take your family on an evening walk.
  • Help your family today by doing a chore that helps take care of your home.
  • Cook something special for your family, or help a family member with meal preparations or clean up.
  • Make a family tree.
  • Make a family photo album or photo book.
  • Send mail to a relative you have not seen recently.
  • Daisies: Earn your Sunny, Friendly, and Helpful or Zinni, Considerate and Caring, Petals.
  • Brownies: Check out the My Family Story or Making Friends Badge and complete at least one activity. On the last page of each badge, you’ll find three ways you could give service with your new skills.

Service to the Community – Tuesday March 8

  • Check out the Citizen Badges (Celebrating Community, Inside Government, Finding Common Ground, Behind the Ballot, Public Policy) for your level and complete at least one activity. On the last page of each badge, you’ll find three ways you could give service with your new skills.
  • Help clean up an area in your community or at school.
  • How can you improve your neighborhood or community? Create your own small service project.
  • Think about people in your neighborhood or community that might not have homes. How can you help people who are experiencing homelessness? Consider donating clothes and hygiene products to a local shelter.
  • Donate nonperishable food items to the local food bank.
  • Donate toys or clothes you have outgrown to charity.
  • Bring supplies to an animal shelter.
  • Read a book to someone.
  • Write a Thank You note to a community helper.
  • Donate to a community organization. You can make something, buy something, or give something you no longer need.
  • Daisies: Earn your Sunny, Friendly and Helpful, or Zinni, Considerate and Caring, Petals.
  • Brownies: Check out the Philanthropist or Give Back Badge and complete at least one activity. On the last page of each badge, you’ll find three ways you could give service with your new skills.

Service to the Environment – Wednesday March 9

  • Put some bird food outside for our feathered friends.
  • Recycle as much as you can today.
  • Do a science project that explores the environment.
  • Clean up a local park or outdoor area.
  • Research energy saving tips and educate your friends and family about ways to conserve energy.
  • Beautify an area of your home or community by planting a small garden.
  • Go on a nature hike and pick up trash along the trail.
  • Create a craft with a recycled Girl Scout cookie box.
  • Daisies: Earn your Clover, Use Resources Wisely, or Rosie, Make the World a Better Place, Petals.
  • Brownies: Check out the Household Elf Badge and complete at least one activity. On the last page, you’ll find three ways you could give service with your new skills.
  • Juniors and Up: Check out the Animal Habitats, Animal Helpers, or Voice for Animals Badge and complete at least one activity. On the last page of each badge, you’ll find three ways you could give service with your new skills.

Outdoors Day – Thursday March 10

  • Get outside today! Play games, go on a hike or have another outdoor adventure for at least 30 minutes.
  • Check out the new Outdoor Badges and complete at least one activity.
  • Go to a park!
  • Do a rubbing on a leaf, tree bark or any other thing in nature.
  • Take a scavenger hike. Find something in nature that starts with each letter of the alphabet.
  • Plant a vegetable, flower or herb in a pot to enjoy.
  • Identify three different plants in your neighborhood.
  • Create a nature collage by using only things found in nature.
  • Learn to tie a knot or practice the ones you already know.
  • Learn a new outdoor activity with your family (i.e., fishing, archery, hiking, etc.)
  • Go on a bug-hunt outside your house with a magnifying glass. Draw one of them.
  • Check out the Naturalist (Bugs, Flowers, Trees, Sky, Water), Outdoors (Hiker, Camper, Trailblazing, Adventurer) or Adventure (Letterboxer, Geocacher, Night Owl, Traveler) Badges and complete at least one activity.

Girl Scouting Around the World – Friday March 11

  • Did you know you have Girl Scout sisters in 146 countries around the world?! Check our the Girl Scout Global Action Award.
  • Learn what WAGGGS stands for (see wagggs.org). List and locate all four World Centers on a map.
  • Learn to say “Hello, Good-Bye, Please and Thank You” in another language.
  • Learn how people in other cultures celebrate birthdays.
  • Make a collage of all the places you would like to visit or have visited.
  • Learn about a country you would like to visit, and cook/prepare something from that country. Share your creation with your family.
  • Learn a Girl Scout song or game from another country.
  • Daisies: Earn the Vi, Be a Sister to Every Girl Scout, Petal.

Happy 104th Birthday, Girl Scouts!

Today is the Girl Scout Birthday! On this day in 1912, Juliette “Daisy” Gordon Low assembled a group of eighteen girls from Savannah, Georgia for the first ever Girl Scout meeting. Low believed that all girls should have the opportunity to develop physically, mentally, and spiritually. She organized service projects, outdoor adventures, and enrichment programs to get girls out of the house and into the community.

  • We’re 104 years old today! Host your own Girl Scout Birthday Party to celebrate.
  • Check out the Girl Scout Way for your level and complete at least one activity. On the last page, you’ll find three ways you could give service with your new skills.
  • Recite the Girl Scout Law to your family.
  • Read or re-read the Juliette Low story.
  • Learn about when Girl Scouting first started.
  • Learn a new Girl Scout song and teach it to a friend.
  • Spend time working on a Girl Scout Award (Petal, Badge, Journey Book or Pin)
  • Do a service project.
  • Design a future Girl Scout uniform and share it with someone.
  • Do something fun or learn something new on ForGirls.GirlScouts.org
  • Think about what Girl Scouts means to you and write a letter rededicating yourself to Girl Scouts.
  • Daisies: Earn the Amazing Daisy Promise Center or the Vi, Be a Sister to Every Girl Scout, Petal.

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