My name is Michelle Misterka and I am the proud mother of two beautiful girls. I have been lucky enough to be their GS troop leader since they were each in Kindergarten. This means I have been a troop leader for the past 7 years. I currently lead a Junior troop and a Cadette troop and have … [Read more...] about Bronze Award to Help Hungry College Students
Get Your Sleuth On With our Junior Detective Badge In A Bag®
Are you a GS leader looking for something to do with your Junior troop? Our Detective Badge in a Bag® combines an educational experience with hands-on fun and your girls will earn the Junior Detective badge in one unforgettable meeting. Our Detective Badge in a Bag® has everything you will need … [Read more...] about Get Your Sleuth On With our Junior Detective Badge In A Bag®
Having Fun Making Jewelry – Junior Badge
Submitted by Troop 80671 Our troop have used many of MakingFriends®.com badges in a bag throughout the years. One badge that stands out from the rest is the Jewelry badge for Juniors. The girls enjoyed the opportunity to make 5 different kinds of Jewelry and we also added a additional safety pin … [Read more...] about Having Fun Making Jewelry – Junior Badge
Get the Excitement Going to Increase Cookie Sales with Your Junior Troop!
By the time your girls are Junior Girl Scouts, cookie season can start to loose some of it's excitement. Maybe it's time to recharge with some fun projects and a game to rev up their cookie-selling engines. At MakingFriends, we started with the Junior Customer Insights Badge and … [Read more...] about Get the Excitement Going to Increase Cookie Sales with Your Junior Troop!
Simple Project Idea for the Junior Jeweler Badge
Never underestimate some cast-off jewelry and a bunch of fourth-grade girls. This is the story of how trash became treasure and a life-changing moment for some girls in Indiana and in Haiti while working on the Junior Jeweler badge. What started as a simple project for our Junior Jeweler … [Read more...] about Simple Project Idea for the Junior Jeweler Badge
Blood Drive Bronze Award Project
submitted by Kara Shuemaker We completed the Agent of Change Journey and the girls learned how “the power of one, the power of teams, and the power of community” all work together. The girls were struggling with a decision to either host a blood drive to ease the high demand for blood or to have … [Read more...] about Blood Drive Bronze Award Project
Operation Education: Bronze Award Project
submitted by Kelly Prescot, Troop 5563 Operation Education: Troop 5563's Bronze Award Project We started our project soon after the completion of our Journey on January 18, 2014. We finished the Agent of Change Journey. It was good for us because we learned how we can make changes by working … [Read more...] about Operation Education: Bronze Award Project
Animal Habitats Badge
Submitted by Troop 434, Leader Benjamin Kanten My Juniors love animals. So I knew that earning the Animal Habitats badge would be a priority for them. As luck would have it, another Junior troop in our service unit planned to do an overnight event at a zoo in a nearby city. Great! Less work for … [Read more...] about Animal Habitats Badge