For active troops who love to camp, here is a unique Girl Scout outdoor camping skills patch set everyone in your troop can earn.
Adding fun patches to your Girl Scout programming is one of the easiest ways to build excitement, reinforce skills, and create lasting memories the girls can see on their uniform. This Outdoor Camping Patch Set from E-Patches & Crests is a perfect example of how to do just that.
The starter set comes with a tree trunk and seven skills patches. As your girls earn more skills, they can add additional leaves to the tree.
A Fun, Visual Way to Celebrate Outdoor Skills
The Girl Scout Outdoor Camping Patch Set is designed as a tree with individual leaves, each representing a different camping skill. The core 7-piece set includes a trunk and leaves for skills like knots, hiking, chores, tenting, cooking, and campfire activities.
What makes this set especially engaging is how it grows with your troop. Girls can “earn” each leaf as they practice new skills, visually building their tree over time. It turns skill-building into something tangible and motivating, which is perfect for younger girls who benefit from seeing their progress.
Even better, the full collection of leaves expands to include additional outdoor skills like canoeing, geocaching, nature identification, orienteering, and shelter building. This means you can continue using the same patch theme across multiple campouts or even an entire year of outdoor programming.
Skills That Truly Matter at Camp
Beyond the fun of earning these patches, this set focuses on practical skills that directly impact a girl’s success and confidence while camping.
Knots & Shelter Building:
Learning knots isn’t just a requirement, it’s essential for setting up tents, securing gear, and even basic safety. Shelter-building skills help girls problem-solve and adapt to different environments.
Hiking & Orienteering:
Navigation and trail awareness build independence. Girls learn how to read maps, follow directions, and stay safe outdoors.
Cooking & Campfire Skills:
Outdoor cooking teaches teamwork, planning, and responsibility. Campfire skills also reinforce fire safety, which is one of the most important lessons in camping.
Chores & Responsibility:
Camp chores like cleaning up, organizing gear, and helping others build accountability and leadership.
Nature Skills:
Activities like nature identification and crafting deepen girls’ connection to the environment and encourage stewardship.
Creating Lasting Memories
One of the best things about fun patches is that they become keepsakes. Long after a campout ends, girls can look at their patch tree and remember what they accomplished. When younger daughter bridged to Adult, all of her uniforms were on display. It was fun to look at each vest and reminisce about all the skills she learned and experiences that she had over her 13 years as a Girl Scout.
Patches are often used to commemorate experiences rather than formal achievements, making them a meaningful way to celebrate troop activities and adventures.
Girl Scout Outdoor Camping Patch Set Ties in With Badge Earning
All levels of Girl Scouts has outdoor camping badges. There are specific skills tied into earning each badge, and these patches represent them. As you earn an official badge, your can also give your girls one of the leaves on the camping tree.
You can find this Girl Scout Outdoor Camping Patch Set here. There are additional leaves also available for purchase.