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| SouthEast Texas Girl Scouts GSSJC - Areas 2, 3, & 4 Program Ideas |
| Ideas for Girl Scout meetings, Birthdays, Christmas, or other occasions... (Includes events as well as 1. Take a piece of plywood and cut our three different size holes on it & propped it with a small board... Paint it & make bean bags... It is a great game for the younger girls! (Also works great at carnivals, festivals, rallies, etc.) 2. Ask Wal-Mart and other stores for X number (X = number of girls in troop) of the free CDs they give out or use the ones you already have either in the mail, or those no longer compatible for your PC, etc� Make sundials out of them (or decorate with small foam cutouts as a Christmas ornament or hang several decorated ones on strings for a mobile for a neat room decoration.) 3. Old fashion playdough (homemade) with dollar store (or around the home) cookie cutters. 4. Songs. (Link coming soon) 5. Home made Geoboard: (Click on Activity #3) - Just takes rubber bands, wood & finishing nails! (Many of thes other activities could be used with Math Try-Its, Badges, etc., or just for fun in a meeting - Just kept to a simpler level (I can not help but wonder if the web author of this site is not a Math Professor - if not, probably should be.) 6. Homemade rain-stick kits are a blast... Take mailing tubes or thick cardboard tubes, small nails, unpopped popcorn or beans... Hammer all the nails spaced out all over the mailing tube on all sides... tape one end shut... in other side pour half a bag or so of unpopped popcorn... tape that side shut... then cover the whole thing with a fun contact paper, felt, fabric, etc. Then turn the new instrument over and over again slowly to hear the rain! 7. Skits. (Will be added to the "Game/Skits" page soon!) 8. A tape recorder and a bunch of blank tapes.... The girls will know what to do from there. Can also be played during the award ceremony at the end of the year by creating of collage of voices from your troop as a presentation - and do not tell the girls in advance your plans - what a great surprise! 9. Games. 10. Take coloring pages (best if you print these from internet and your PC onto stock paper) and give them baggies of glitter, crayons, markers, colored pencils, noodles, colored sand, colored rice, jewels and/or beads� Create posters, cards, etc� 11. Take a piece of plywood & have girls paint a city. Make miniature houses out of cardboard, boxes, etc. Add stop signs, etc. a park� a mirrored pond... Can even take some old spray foam (the kind that insulates pipes) and create mountains with tunnels (molded over wire or old milk jugs) and then paint them a brownish or gray color (maybe paint tip white for snow)... This can even be service project to donate to Women & children center, sell for fundraiser in a garage sale, or make decorations for a ceremony, etc. 12. Go to the library, get books on simple experiments (many only need food coloring, water, funnels, cooking oil, soda pop bottles, balloons, and other cheap readily accessible items. 13. Stilts. Simply take wood and nail a triangle piece to it then wrap colored electrical tape around the tops in different colors for grips. 14. Fridge magnet kits are simple and inexpensive... Can make thank-you gifts, Mother�s Day gifts, Father�s Day gifts, Grandparent�s Day, fundraisers, etc. ... You can get a sheet of magnetic paper, markers, stickers, foam pieces, construction paper, etc. ... Maybe a few clip art designs... All they have to do is color, create, cut, & peel or glue with glue gun (depending on style magnet sheets purchased.). 15. Make get-well cards, Christmas cards, Thanksgiving cards, etc. for whichever season/event: Take them to the kid�s floor at a local hospital to have the nurses hand these out. Do not forget to remind the girls NOT to write their names on these and put �From Girl Scout Troop ___� instead. 16. You can find magnets at the dollar store & then go to the same dollar store, retail store, hardware store, or around your house and/or find/buy different items such as washers, erasers, paper clips, paper, key, other magnets, etc. Spend time figuring out what can be picked up, what repelled, and what did not move. 17. A bubble kit is fun. Make solutions from dawn dish soap, a little glycerin, and take a large dowel rod. Attach a strip of fabric to the top & then take 2 washers and slip one on the fabric and tie the fabric onto the other washer which we slipped on the dowel... dip it into the solution... grab the free floating ring & GIANT Bubbles! 18. Check local photo shops and see if any will give you the empty film canisters. Decorate these with stickers, add some vinegar & some baking soda to make rockets. 19. Go to thrift stores & yard sales and collect different games! Also do the same thing with books. Might find good items for your "Troop Shop" to spend those "Troop Scout Bucks." (web page explaining this is coming soon!) - Check Back 20. Scrapbooking days� with pictures, paper, crayons, markers, pens, and stickers. 21. Check out www.FluffyFriendsToGo.com for a neat idea to have during one of your meetings, a sleepover, etc. Our local contact for this organization happens to be a local Girl Scout leader, Brandie Broussard (Area 4 - Hampshire Fannet). Click on the "Shop" link - near the top of the page in the middle; then click on the "Outfits" link to the left, then click on "Career Wears / Uniforms" to see a neat collection of Daisy, Brownie, and Junior Girl Scout uniforms for your "Fluffy Friend." BACK TO TOP |
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