Celebrating community brownie badge

If your looking for ideas to make your meeting more fun while exploring what it means to be patriotic, you have come to the right place. Using some of these activities below to help girls find out what makes our communities special and what we do to celebrate all the people in them. Below are a few ideas to get you started. Celebrating Community Activity Booklet Before jumping into some ideas, do you want to skip all the planning? If so, use this Activity Booklet with activities that are…

" The Girl's Guide to Girl Scouting features seven Legacy badges that build on 100+ years of Girl Scout history. Each of these badges (A...

Celebrating Community Part One: For this troop meeting, we began working on Celebrating Community. My original plan was to tie it into the holiday season, and do something for a local community, so we were able to go caroling at a local retirement home, which the girls (and the audience) really enjoyed. But for the actual meeting, we did something a little different. We finished up talking about First Aid and reactions in emergency situations, then made a big thank you card for the…

If your looking for ideas to make your meeting more fun while exploring what it means to be patriotic, you have come to the right place. Using some of these activities below to help girls find out what makes our communities special and what we do to celebrate all the people in them. Below are a few ideas to get you started. Celebrating Community Activity Booklet Before jumping into some ideas, do you want to skip all the planning? If so, use this Activity Booklet with activities that are…

*This post contains affiliate links. Updated April 2023 One thing that we leaders can teach to our girls is a sense of community. When we have pride in where we live, it shows in so many different ways. For example, my boss recently sold her home in a town with two high schools and moved to a smaller place in my town, which has one high school. She attended our town’s annual community festival for the first time and when I saw her the next day, she told me she felt a sense of pride that she…

Badge - Celebrating Community

" The Girl's Guide to Girl Scouting features seven Legacy badges that build on 100+ years of Girl Scout history. Each of these badges (A...

Girl Scouts + Camping + Earning a Badge = FUN We are all going camping for the weekend, so now what? Does anyone else ever feel like that? I know there are plenty of things to do that are a necessity at camp that would just fill up this entire page, but what about all …

*All posts have been updated in April 2023 to ensure that all of the links are still viable for leaders to use. I have been my younger daughter’s Girl Scout leader since 2008, when I started my troop of six little Daisy Scouts. Like many leaders, I felt a bit overwhelmed when I first started, even though I had been an elementary school and preschool teacher since 1987. My leadership training was practically non-existent, and the internet did not have many resources available. Every time I…

Happy Halloween! If it's one thing I've learned as Girl Scout leader, is the girls love a party! Doesn't matter what it's for, any re...