Brownies badges ideas

One topic making the rounds on Girl Scout leader Facebook groups is that the Brownie Painting Badge and the Junior Jeweler badges are being retired. Since these badges are generally popular with the girls, people are looking for them and not generally please to hear this. On the other hand, the badges are being replaced with a new series of Art and Design badges available on the Daisy, Brownie and Junior levels. This post will look at the Brownie badge. You can read about the Daisy badge…

Updated April 2025 The world of science is a fascinating one. There is so much to explore and uncover, yet study after study has shown that girls lose interest in this school subject. While there are many reasons for this gender gap, we as Girl Scout leaders do not have to encourage it. The Home Scientist badge will get your girls to see that science is not just something that takes place in school or in a laboratory…it is all around them! After deciding which experiments you wish to do with…

The National Program Portfolio has two main parts – the National Leadership Journeys and the all new The Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting. Complemented by the Girl Scout Cookie program, Girl Sco…

If you're looking for ideas to make your meeting more fun while discovering the great outdoors and getting creative, you have come to the right place. Use some of these activities below to get outdoors, create fantastic art masterpieces with your girls, and earn the Brownie Outdoor Art Creator Badge.

*This post contains affiliate links. Updated April 2025 As girls get older, they become more self-conscious as to what others think of them. There can be many sources for this, but as a Girl Scout leader, you have the power to make a difference in the lives of your girls. Your meetings are a safe place for your troop to express themselves and to learn how to get along with others. Earning the Girl Scout Brownie Being Your Best Self badge will help the girls to see the positives within…

My Best Self

*This post contains affiliate links. Updated April 2025 One thing that we leaders can teach to our girls is a sense of community. W...

Ways for Brownies to earn their Bugs badge

*All posts have been updated in April 2025 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…

GSUSA has just released this year's new badges. For Daisies, Brownies and Juniors, these badges included a new series: Coding for Good. Each level gets three badges, which, like the robotics and cybersecurity badges, were designed to be done sequentially. Also it appears that like the robotics and cybersecurity badges, if you purchase the badge brochure, instead of getting a choice of three activities per requirement, you are given background information to use with the VTK plans. In other…

The My Best Self Try-it is part of the “It's Your World - Change It!” badge set introduced in 2011. For the badges released in 2011, scouts must complete all of the activities listed to earn the badge. We only get one body, so it's important to take care of it! Learn to pay attention to what your body needs and how to ask for health help if you need it - so you can keep yourself feeling great. Get to know your body Eat and play in a healthy way Find out how your body works Know what to do…

*This post contains affiliate links. Updated April 2025 We use our five senses without even knowing it, and we can make the girls more aware of them while earning the Brownie Girl Scout Senses badge. The activities for earning this badge are a lot of fun and can easily be completed in one Brownie meeting. Once the meeting has started, ask the girls to name the five senses. List them on the board (if you have one) and ask why each one is important and how life would be different without one…

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My troop loves arts and crafts projects! Earning the Colors and Shapes Try It patch is one that they will love. You can either earn this in two meetings or

These resources will help your girls learn new skills and discover more about the world around them while earning badges. Who can use these ideas? Anyone inspiring girls to be leaders of tomorrow. They are great for variety of scout troops, Brownie Scouts, Otter/Dolphin Frontier Girls, Quest Clubs, or any other organization or individuals with 2nd -3rd grade girls.

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…

Girl Scout Brownie My Family Story Badge Requirements PDF

Download or Print the most up to date worksheets and requirements for earning the Salesmanship Merit Badge. This PDF packet can be used to help BSA scouts organize and prepare for meeting with their merit badge counselor.

*This post contains affiliate links. Updated April 2025 The Brownie Snack Try it is one of the most fun badges for the girls to earn, and it is also one of the messiest and hands on for you to lead. This badge is very similar to the old Brownie program’s Make It, Eat It, Try It that my troop earned back when they were Brownies. Many children today are well aware of what constitutes healthy foods and non-healthy foods. This is not only taught in school, but is also preached to them on various…

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