*This post contains affiliate links. UPDATED JUNE 2019 I Love Girl Scouts Bead Kits Available on eBay A simple and inexpensive craft to do with your young Daisy troop is to string beads to make a bracelet or necklace. If you want to, you can earn the honest and fair blue petal and give the …
Free Girl Scout Field Trips
Sometimes it is nice change of pace to not have an official meeting with your troop, but to take a field trip instead. If money is an issue for your troop, there are many free places to visit! A field trip requires advanced planning. Assign one of your co-leaders to do this, or perhaps a …
Earning the Light Blue Petal-Honest and Fair
*This post contains affiliate links. A cute book to start off your meeting! Your Daisy Scouts are young, and for children who are this age, being “fair” is of great importance. One activity I did with my girls to earn this petal was to take a pile of clip-art paper apples I had printed, placed them in …
How to Earn the Yellow Daisy Petal Friendly and Helpful
The yellow Daisy petal is to be “friendly and helpful”. This is one of those petals that your girls earn each and every time you have a meeting. Girls need to be helpful during each meeting, as one day they will be taking over and making them more girl led. Friendly is self-explanatory…they need to get …
How to Earn the Red Daisy Petal-Courageous and Strong
*This post contains affiliate links. Updated Fall 2018 The red Daisy Scout Petal stands for “Courageous and Strong”. Here is an activity to help your girls earn that petal. Image from Pixabay and altered by the author in Canva Before the meeting, fill one storage container for each girl with the same food-wet spaghetti, jello, pudding, yogurt, whipped cream-anything …
What Should You Charge for Girl Scout Troop Dues?
At the beginning of the year, your co-leader and you need to discuss how much to collect in dues. The first things leaders need to understand is that dues are voluntary. You cannot make a girl pay them. Image created on Canva Here are some factors to consider: How many girls are in your troop? …