Leominster Girl Scouts
(a member or the Montachusett Girl Scout Council and Apple Valley Association)

Badge and Recognitions and Activities

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Adult Recognitions

Each year the association and council honors G.S. adult volunteers and leaders for their work on behalf of their troop, service unit,
association or council.  Recognitions for these awards include a nominating process.

Outstanding Leader award--award given to a G.S. leader, or assistant leader whose skills in the areas of leadership, communication
and membership are so outstanding in nature that they merit recognition by the service unit.

Outstanding Volunteer award--award given to an adult serving in a capacity other than troop leadership whose service is of benefit to the entire service unit and is so beyond expectations for the position held that it warrants Service Unit recognition.

Association Pin--for outstanding performance in one or more phases of development or execution of the Association plan of work.

Appreciation Pin--requires approval by the Council Board of Directors for outstanding service delivered to at least one geographic (Association or Service) Unit.

Honor Pin--requires approval by the Council Board of Directors  for outstanding service to one or more associations of the council.

Thanks Badge--requires approval by the Council Board of Directors for service which is truly outstanding which benefits the work of the entire council or the G.S. organization.  The service must be beyond the call of duty that no other award would be appropriate.

Where do all those leader pins go?   and picture

Level to Level Comparisons of Badges  This is not complete and is subject to change!

My online safety--GSUSA guidelines for internet safety.

Girl Scout Patches and Pins from Patcho, Joycrest, Design-IT , Little Awards or other embroidery and patch companies around the world

Astronomy for Kids

American Girl History Patch (for Brownies and Juniors)

Creative way to hand out badges

Freedom trail patch--visit Boston and the Freedom Trail and earn this patch.

Hidden Heroine Project (Junior/Cadette)--(sponsored by the History Channel and Girl Scouts) to recognize the
achievements of American women of your community.

Hometown history(Junior/Cadette)--(sponsored by the History Channel and Girl Scouts) to recognize history among us in our own communities

Math, Science and Technology Links--Provided by GSUSA.

Money, history, terms, etc.

Nature activities to match the Scouting program

Religious recognitions (National Interfaith Committee for Girl Scouting)

Troop Crests and their meaning

Using Scouting Requirements as the basis of Home Schooling

Where do I place recognitions on my uniform--Provided by Girl Scout U.S.A.

Why where your uniform?

Favorite Daisy Petal Ideas from West Windsor-Plainsboro

Friendship bracelet--from Making Friends.com

Games for Daisies (Kids and the outdoors)

Songs for Daisies (From senior gold award project )

Scouting Craft ideas from Scouting Web

Useful links for Daisy leaders (from scouting links.net)

Brownie Girl Scout Aide Badge--Developed by San Antonio Area Council of Girl Scouts

Brownie Girl Scouts through the years
Film list by decade from filmsite.org
Song list by decade 1950-2000.

Brownie Girl Scout Try-it Links on the Web--This page outline comes from Troop 292, Florida.

Brownie Story --This information contributed by Rita T..

Brownie Safety Award--by GSUSA

Brownie Tryit record sheet

Cookies Count -- G.S. USA web site

Visit a local bank to find out about starting a savings account. (cookie Pin activity)
Planning and saving $5.00 ( word file cookie pin activity)
        Roll play using money to make change (word file cookie pin activity)--coin and paper money images

Craft ideas for Brownie Projects --Contributed by "Charlotte".

Craft Ideas with seasonal themes

Craft ideas for specific badges--Made available by the Craft bin.

Eat Right Stay Healthy

Food and Nutrition sites for Kids

Games for Brownies--(Kids and the outdoors)

Girl Scout Ways

Learn the G.S. Promise with this easy craft
Find out about Juliette Low (J. Lowe page)

Healthy Habits

General dental information

Internet Ideas for completing Brownie Try-its--This page contributed by "Charlotte".

Making Music--sing the Brownie Smile Song,  Bingo, Yogi  (Action songs)
    Make New friends, Rose, & Dewey (Songs in rounds)
    Make a rhythm instrument

Math Fun Tryit--Contributed by Laura S.

Estimating--Have your daughter fill a large jar with with seeds, beads, marbles, pennies, buttons, or acorn.  Have at least 5 people
estimate how many items are in the jar.  Keep track of the results and who came closest.  How did they estimate their answer.

Playing around the world Tryit--Learn Kim's Game, Sheep and Hyenas, Jan-Ken-Pon, Mr. Bear, & Hawks and Hens

Point, Click and Go--Requirements listed by GSUSA.

Information (Making the computer go) provided by Laura S.
Learn how to search the internet

Puppets Dolls and Plays workshop (Given by Drawbridge Puppet Theatre)

Create an Origami stick puppet--(Puppet Resource Center)
Have a bring your favorite doll tea party and tell why she's so special.
Make a ballerina marionette
Make a shadow puppet Theatre--from Old Sturbridge Village
Making puppets from scrap material--(Puppet Resource Center)
Making paper bag puppets --Good for brownies or daisy's all face shapes included.
Puppet ideas from MakingFriends.com
Puppet Resource Center

Science

    Bubble Links of interest

Senses

Neuroscience sense information for kids--lots of activities for kids to explore their senses.

Stitch it together

Free patterns from the Sewing with Nancy site

Tryit Information Sheet--Includes graphics for all of the badges.

Tryit Record Sheet--Entered by the Ridgefield, CT Girl Scout Service Unit.

Junior Badge Checkout sheet   (doc file)

New Badge Changes

New Designs (5):

New Badges - 17

Discontinued - 23

Across the generations--This badge is completed for those students who participate in the Adopt-A-Grandparent program through the Multi-Service Center.

Art to wear--connect to Sewing with Nancy site for suggestions and free patterns

Becoming a teen ideas from WAGGS

Bronze Award Requirements --from GSUSA

Camera Shots

Taking better pictures and other tutorials

Car Care

Car care basics--from HerAuto.com
Caring for your car booklet from shell Oil

Caring for Children (With minimal additions this is completed when you take the baby-sitting course)

A guide to the business of baby-sitting--includes good tips and safety information.
Baby-sitting course online--created by University of Massachusetts extension program and babysitting.com
Grandma's Rainy Day survival list

Ceramics

Glossary of ceramic terms
Take a class at Clayground in Worcester (508-755-7776) or Claytime in Worcester (508-795-1032)

Comprehensive Junior Badge Resources--This page is a listing of each requirement needed for the Junior badges.

'Cookie Connection Badge--Provided by GSUSA.

Cookie Recipes from ABC Girl Scout Cook Bakers--names are different but the ingredients are the same
Recipes from Little Brownie Bakers --recipes are listed under each cookie.
Girl Scout Cookie Guide for girls and parents (pdf file--you need acrobat reader)
Selling cookies safely

G.S. Cookie History from GirlScouts.org (Cookie Pin activity)-- find out the cost to make the original)
Exchange Rates (Cookie Pin activity)
What is income (word file -Cookie Pin activity)
Keep track of my spending (word file --Cookie Pin activity)

Council's own Junior Level Badges

Craft Activities linked to Junior badges provided by the craft bin.

Cyber Girl Scout--as presented by GSUSA.

Dance

Learn to waltz
Have a dance party at Day Camp or sleepover

Do it yourself--available through GSUSA

Drawing and Painting

Complete drawing and painting worksheet
Drawing Techniques
Explore the study of art
Learn about primary and secondary colors
Painting techniques

Exploring Old Cemeteries

Food Fibers and farming--discontinued in the new book but available online through GSUSA and taught at Old Sturbridge Village

Frosty Fun
Winter safety tips
Have a winter fashion show
Dressing for the cold brochure from Alaska wildlife Assoc.

G.S. Around the World

• Find out about WAGGGS
• Learn about Lord Baden-Powell through a personal interview
• Juliette Low World Friendship Fund
• Lord Baden-Powell/Juliette Low Action Story

G.S. in the USA

• G.S. in the USA (ideas from other scout leaders in completing)

• G.S. Pyramid

Global Awareness--New Junior Badge introduced Jan. 2001

Healthier You

• Learn about the importance of calcium using these dairy graphics to make a placemat.
  
  Horse Fan (Horse Lover)--Requirements of this badge may be fulfilled by visiting the Riding Valley Riding Stables.

• Grooming a horse
• Fitting, cleaning and replacing a riding helmet
  
• Horse tutorial--Find about parts of a horse, markings, etc.
• Horse Quizzes--test your knowledge about horses
• Ultimate Horse site--includes jokes puzzles, games, disease, diagrams, facts and more

I live my Faith--Activities for the Catholic recognitions in Girl Scouts

Jeweler Badge Ideas

Junior badge Worksheet new

Looking our best

• Applying cosmetics based on your face shape--gives you tips for each face shape.     
• Determine your face shape--measure your face and determine what shape it is
• Glossary of terms and skin care information--contributed by Debbie L.

Lip Balm for Looking our best (Junior Lock-In Spring 2000)

3 tsp. of beeswax, 5 teaspoons of carrier oil, 1 tsp. of honey and flavored oils {lime, lemon, tangerine, grapefruit, or peppermint}

Melt the wax and carrier oil together in the top of a double boiler, stirring to combine.   Remove from heat; adding honey and flavored oils.  Mix thoroughly so the honey does not clump.  To add color, stir in a dab of lipstick with a coffee stirrer and pour in containers.Cool for 20 minutes.To make the glossier use 2 teaspoons of wax and 8 tsp. of carrier oil.

Model Citizen (Junior Citizen)

• Take a Good Neighbor Test contributed by Laura S. (doc file)
• Learn about the American flag or a flag ceremony
• Carry on a service project in your town (doc file by Mid-Continent Council's Outdoor Program Conference on April 29, 2000)
• Rights and Responsibilities of citizenship
• Visit a branch of government to see what is done (The Leominster Emergency Management Agency on Lancaster St. is available for visits.)
• Organize your families personal papers (Marriage Licenses, social security forms, passport, drivers licenses and more)

Money Sense

• Corporate Financial Careers  (Includes overview, salary, skills and talents and more)

• Currency Converter

• Interest Rate calculator

• Money Smarts site at GSUSA  (Learn to earn, save, get credit, and invest.)

My Heritage

Heritage Night celebration
Each person needs to come in and tell three facts about their family heritage or traditions and bring a snack, desert or other item to share which represents their family, or ethnic heritage.
Make a family tree
Learn a game or find a toy from the past
Memorably Yours
        Look around your home and select an item you think you will want to keep until you are grown up.
        If possible bring it to troop and be prepared to explain why or write an explanation.

Make a list of your parents favorite sayings such as......
    You can be anything you want to be
    God helps those that help themselves
    A zipper it is a wonderful invention

What's in name--find the meaning of your first (1) or  2 last name
Ask your family if you are named after a family member and a few facts about that person.

Junior Girl Scout Record Form--with local activities included (Laura S. doc file)

Junior badge helps and packets

Junior Safety Award--new safety award for Junior Scouts by GSUSA

Now and then stories--this badge has been discontinued in the badge book but is available online through GSUSA

Parent's Guide to Junior Girl Scout Badges--Brought to you from the Junior Girl Scout Troops of Blossom Acres Service Unit in Citrus Council of Girl Scouts, Inc. of Orlando, Florida.

Plants and Animals (workshop for completion available from Broad Meadow Brook Wildlife Sanctuary

Petcare

Animal care information from the American Veterinarian Society
Pet disease information from the Center of Disease Control

Pet Care badges are being offered by Animal House on Mechanic St. and the Sterling Animal Shelter off of Rt. 12.

Puzzler badge activities--from Troop 531

• Crossword compiler site

• Develop word searches, crossword puzzles and more from Puzzlemaker

Science Discovery--Bubbleology from GSUSA

Science in Action--no longer in the badge book but available through GSUSA

Requirement and ideas for completion provided by the Society of women engineers

Sky Search activities--provided by the Adler Planetarium

Swimming

• Games to be played near or in the water

• Information about hypothermia

• Personal Flotation devices basic information

• Safe Ocean Swimming

• Use the buddy system

Theatre Badge  (Opportunities to visit local Theatre is available)

Toymaker

• Make a board game

• Learn about the history of toys and take a quiz (History Channel) or about.com

Water wonders

•    Water cycle--includes description and an image (provided to teachers of Utah)

•    Water Science information--provided to schools from the U.S. Geological Survey.

Women's stories (This badge has been discontinued in the Badge book but is available online.)

Women of Courage cards--Laura S. has developed a set of about 30 index cards with yarn attached.  The cards give
short profiles of women of courage and the girls can play a guessing game with them.   They are available to borrow.

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• Cadette Award Leadership Summary

• Cadette G.S. Challenge and workbook

• From Dreams to Reality Online Workshop or worksheet

  • Learn about 5 careers (salaries and training required) from O*Net or the Occupational Outlook handbook

  • Learn about 2 non-traditional roles for women

  • Seek out several advertisements for positions you are interested in from Monsterboard.Com or the Boston Globe

  • Shadow a person at work (Look into Bring your daughters to work days)

  • Interview 3 mothers using this worksheet

  • From Dreams to Reality online workshop online

    • Dreams Response Sheet (pdf)

    • Dreams questions for mothers (pdf)
      
       

• Cadette G.S. Leadership Award

  • Leadership log (pdf)

  • Leadership skills (pdf)

  • Leadership styles (pdf)
     

• Safety award for cadette and senior scouts

• Senior Gold Award

• Silver Award Information--provided by GSUSA

  • Silver Award Packet --very helpful

IPPS

Car Sense

• Automotive information for women (guide) provided by Toyota

• Find out about car insurance in Massachusetts required and recommended

• Search the internet to find the cost of automobile ownership

• Assemble an emergency tool kit for your automobile

• Learner's permit information

Child Care IPP  information online

Computers in every day life

Creative cooking

• Volunteer to work at Our Father's Table

Emergency Preparedness

• Take a Babysitting and Red Cross Course through the Red Cross

• Learn how to use a fire extinguisher

• Learn to shut off your utilities

• Dealing with gas leaks

Exploring the Net

• Send email to a friend

• Learn how to search for a topic on the web

• Examining and defining  URLs

• Learn about netiquette and read about safety online

Oceanography interest patch offered by Patriot Trails--many of the 6th grade girls participating in ocean quest will complete these activities

Branches of Oceanography (1) Which part interests you and why?
Currents, waves and tides (2)
Endangered sea creatures--what are they any why is it endangered? (9)
Learn about George's' bank (6)
Oceanography glossary (7) Find definitions for plankton, phytoplankton, zooplankton.  Learn of sea plankton's importance
What is salt water made of? (6)

Patriotism interest patch

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  Find out about the bill of rights
  • Folding the flag
  • History of the star spangled banner

  Travel

  • Learn about Wider Opportunities
  • Reading a subway map
  • Learn to say hello goodbye in 10 languages using the google translator tool
  • Learning about international employment from about.com
  • Find 3 travel related web sites (Check Google.com)
  • Create a master list of items needed for a camping trip for the weekend
  • Find out about travel jobs at Traveljob search, Occupational outlook handbook or Onet Online
     

   

   

   

  Gold Award Project ideas for Senior scouts and another
  
  Insignia on the cadette/senior uniform--provided by GSUSA

  IPP Completion Form Worksheet (doc file)

  Interest Projects for Cadette and Senior Scouts--provided by Prairie Hills Cottage.
  
  Leadership opportunities--provided by girlscouts.org.

  Questions and answers about interest patches--provided by the Tierra del Oro Council/
  
  Scholarship opportunities for Gold Award Participants
  
  Things to tell your girls about the silver award--provided by the Scarsdale/Edgemont Girl Scout Group.

  Ms President Cadette Senior Interest Patch

  Contact a girl leader

  Leadership award worksheet

  Learn about the history of women voting

  Visit the White House Project page

  Sample worksheets for finishing some IPPS
   

  Useful links for Cadette and Senior Interest Patches
  
  Water Sports

  Water Safety information and guidelines

  Wider Opportunities (2002 directory and registration)

  Your own business award

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  For more information, corrections, additions, or deletions about the Leominster Girl Scout Web site contact Laura Sykes
  Last updated: April 12, 2004