Here is a meaningful Girl Scout Founder’s Day community service project that your troop can do to celebrate the birthday of Juliette Gordon Low.
One of the pillars of being a Girl Scout is helping your community. Doing projects for others helps the girls to see beyond the world in which they live. Growing compassionate humans is one of the things we do as leaders.
Girl Scout Founder’s Day is a wonderful opportunity do a service project in honor of Juliette Gordon Low, whose birthday is celebrated on October 31st.
Making a basket for a new baby is communal project that the girls will enjoy doing together.
Prep Work for Baby Basket Founder’s Day Project
Before taking on this project, leaders will need to call a local hospital and ask if such a gift is welcome. There is no sense making this and then having no place to donate it.
Your co-leader and you will also need to decide how to create the basket. Will items be purchased with troop funds or will you create a sign-up that permits parents to select items to purchase.
Getting the basket should be easy. You can ask on social media for one or you can go to a thrift store and purchase on for a few dollars.
Other Items You Will Need to Make a Girl Scout Founder’s Day Baby Basket
Other items you will need to create your basket are:
Pink tissue paper
Pink ribbon to decorate the basket
Large pink bow to put on the basket
How to Make A Baby Girl Gift Basket
There are a lot of videos on how to make one of these. Here is a sample.
My Personal Tips for Making a Baby Basket
Over the years, I have been on many committees and have created hundreds of gift baskets. My Girl Scout troop also made personal care baskets as a community service project when they were Cadettes.
My top tip is to use a large cellophane basket bag, which can be purchased at any craft store. This way, you do not to deal with wrapping up the basket and taping down ends. Just drop in the basket, twist the top, secure with tape, and cut off the ends to get the finished effect.
Use glue dots instead of tape to secure the items to each other. There will be less damage when the person takes the items apart.
What to Do at Your Girl Scout Founder’s Day Meeting
I(f you need ideas on what to do for this meeting, you can check out this blog post, Over 25 Easy Girl Scout Founder’s Day Ideas.)
For the baby basket making part of your meeting, tell the girls how this baby basket is going to be given to the first baby girl born at the hospital on October 31st. The girls are going to make cards for the new baby girl, and inside they are going to share what they love about being a Girl Scout.
Materials
Cardstock or notecards, markers, and baby girl stickers
These cards will be put inside the basket before placing it in a bag.
Be sure to take a picture of the basket and the girls with the basket for your Girl Scout scrapbook.
What is your troop doing to celebrate Girl Scout Founder’s Day?
