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No-Stress Ideas for Your December Girl Scout Meetings

Terri Bose — Tue, 15 Nov 2022 23:59:12 +0000

There is always so much to do around the holiday season that trying to plan your December Girl Scout meetings can be super stressful. We’ve got you covered. Here are some ideas to make it easy for you and fun for the girls. And, of course, there’s a fun patch for each activity right here […]

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Ideas for Your October Girl Scout Meetings

Terri Bose — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 19:12:14 +0000

There are many opportunities for October Girl Scout meetings. From parties to educational badges and everything else in between, MakingFriends has plenty of fun ideas to pique your girls’ interests. Our favorite idea is this Making Games Brownie badge download— Halloween Edition. With just a little big of tweaking it can also work for the […]

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Celebrating Girl Scouts’ Birthday

Laura — Tue, 03 Apr 2018 16:08:21 +0000

We celebrated the Girl Scouts 106th birthday by having a great party! Many troops from our service unit pitched in to make the event a success. We had 93 girls sign up to attend. To start off we had a surprise sing along led by an Ambassador Girl Scout who volunteered her time to […]

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5 Tips How To Host Girl Scout Sunday

Laura — Sun, 25 Mar 2018 00:27:06 +0000

Girl Scout Sunday The Preamble of the Constitution of Girl Scouts of the USA notes “The motivating force in Girl Scouting is spiritual.” Girl Scout Sunday provides an opportunity to for the organization to thank faith-based communities for their partnership and collaboration. It is also an opportunity for Girl Scouts to learn more about […]

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Junior Simple Meals Badge and Thanking Sponsors

Laura — Mon, 11 Dec 2017 07:37:02 +0000

Junior Simple Meals Badge and Baking is Fun Patch On October 4, 2017 the girls of Troop 6789 earned their Simple Meals badge and a Baking is Fun patch. The troop prepared a meal for all of their families as well as the church congregation. We are blessed to have a full kitchen at […]

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Bronze Award Project and Christmas Party Fundraiser

Laura — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 08:09:25 +0000

Troop 1100 of Carmel, NY earned their Bronze award last December by collecting homemade Christmas cookies and making cookie platters for our local police departments, EMTs, fire departments, 911 dispatchers and healthcare workers in Mahopac, Kent, Brewster, Carmel, Patterson and Lake Carmel. Troop leader Valerie shared her troop completed their Bronze award project and Christmas […]

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Daisy Troop Meeting Plans

Laura — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 17:56:02 +0000

A troop leader shares her Daisy troop meeting plans. This blog is shared with the permission of the leader so that other troops might find inspiration when planning meetings. Lots to Catch Up On… Admittedly, I haven’t blogged in a few months. Fall is the busiest time for me. Kids are back in school and […]

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Daisy Troop Starts Year With Fun, Service and Investiture

Laura — Sun, 29 Oct 2017 18:58:58 +0000

Solar Eclipse Fun and Service With the Great American Solar Eclipse that happened in August, we wanted to do something special with our girls. We live in Missouri and were pretty close to see totality. Some families made the 15 minute (or more) trek to see totality and of course we wanted to know what […]

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Veterans Day Event: Bring a Vet to Breakfast

Laura — Sat, 16 Sep 2017 20:40:03 +0000

Service Unit 3 held our first Veteran’s Day event, Bring a Vet to Breakfast in 2016. For our Service Unit, this was one of our easier events but clearly one with great impact. Scouts could bring as many vets as they wanted. Some girls didn’t know a vet to invite but they were still encouraged […]

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Choosing Chaperones for Troop Activities

Laura — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 05:53:06 +0000

A leader asked about choosing chaperones for troop activities such as booth sales and trips on our Facebook page. Leader question: When your troop has an event and you need an extra parent to help chaperone how do you determine who to take with you if you have more than one parent express interest? Do you […]

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Denmark for Thinking Day

Stephanie Rose — Thu, 09 Feb 2017 19:22:01 +0000

I am a registered adult member who helps orchestrate our troops Thinking Day activities. We were Denmark for our troop’s portion of the Service Unit’s Thinking Day. We dressed as Danish women, we did a Danish dance and we had Danish snacks. We started practicing in November for this presentation. We even took 7 scout […]

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