Girl Scout Way Badge Ideas for Your Mixed Level Troop

This Service Unit Celebrating Juliette Low’s Birthday by making Lummi sticks and pearl necklaces.

The Girl Scout Way Badges seamlessly worked for mixed-level groups. The requirements allow the girls to work within their abilities and build on them over the years.

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Swapping is a fun Girl Scout tradition. These birthday Swaps will take any birthday event to a new level.

Step 1. Sing Happy Birthday to Juliette Low

Break up into smaller groups and change up the birthday song. Inventing hand motions or dance moves to go along with it, or get really creative and add a lummi stick rendition. If preparing ahead of your event, you could choose to learn it in sign language or another language.

Perform for the rest of the groups.

Step 2. Celebrate Juliette Low’s Birthday

Decorate pre-baked cupcakes or cookies for the celebration.

Consider using Juliette Low’s Sugar Cookie recipe and learn about the first Girl Scout cookie season.

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Step 3. Share Sisterhood

Sisterhood isn’t only about Girl Scouts. It’s about being kind and inclusive to everyone. In honor of Juliette Low choose a way to celebrate her life by giving back to your community. Consider making birthday cake kits to donate to shelters or food pantries. Girls can bring supplies to the celebration and assemble the kits during the festivities.

➡️ Allrecipes.com has 10 different cake/soda combinations!

Step 4. Make the World a Better Place

Set aside time during your celebration to choose a service project for your group.

This group decided to beautify their camp during their upcoming encampment including “cheering up” the latrines.

Girl Scout Traditions Bingo Cards

Step 5. Enjoy Girl Scout Traditions

Play Girl Scout traditions bingo but mix it up. Let the younger girls be the callers and the older girls enjoy some friendly competition. Those who get bingo first “win” a chance to pick a strip of paper from a prepared bag of silly activities such as hopping across the room on one foot.

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