Badge in a Box
Make Girl Scouting fun and stress-free by purchasing a newly designed Badge in a box! Each box is assembled to include almost everything one Girl Scout needs to earn a badge. Included in the boxes are activity materials, instructions. the badge, and hours of fun. Badge in a Box can be purchased through myGS. Multiple pick-up times will be available throughout the membership year. They can be picked up from one of our service centers during set days and times or mailed directly to your home. Each box is $20, with shipping costing and additional $10.
Daisy Design with Nature Box
For Girl Scouts in grades K-1. Get ready to sort, sequence, and size the world around you. Birds will be your guide as you explore nature through a creative and thoughtful lens. Ask questions, test theories, and display what you learn, all while having fun outside.
Included Activities:
- Activity 1: SWAP Kit- Learn more about Girl Scout SWAPS and create your own bird, bee, and butterfly to share with your Girl Scout sisters!
- Activity 2: Mix Bird Food- Create your own bird seed mix while practicing measuring and ratios. Learn about bird diets and their preferences to encourage feathered visitors to your own backyard!
- Activity 3: Identify Birds- Discover how to use a field guide to spot birds on a nature hike. Then, record what you find in your own birding journal!
- Activity 4: Make a Map- Design a map for your neighborhood, then use it to get from one place to another.
- Activity 5: Build a Birdfeeder- Construct a bird feeder using your own design concept based on what you have learned about birds so far.
Brownie Design with Nature Box
For Girl Scouts in grades 2-3. Gear up for a construction and building challenge to help you better understand the world around you. Use your creativity to construct thoughtful projects that help bees pollinate and birds eat. Collect and graph data so that others can see what you've learned.
Included Activities:
- Activity 1: SWAP Kit- Learn more about Girl Scout SWAPS and create your own bird, bee, and butterfly to share with your Girl Scout sisters!
- Activity 2: Calculate the Age of a Tree- Observe, measure, and compare the age of two trees using tree cookies.
- Activity 3: Build a Bee Hotel- Build a bee hotel to help pollinators in your area.
- Activity 4: Create a Birdfeeder- Construct a bird feeder using your own design concept.
- Activity 5: Make Bird Food- Create your own bird seed mix while practicing measuring and ratios. Learn about bird diets and their preferences to encourage feathered visitors to your own backyard!
- Activity 6: Graph Data about Birds- Display data using a field guide and birding journal.
Junior Shapes in Nature Box
Prepare to be blown away by a pattern! Use your creativity to explore symmetry, fractals, and the Fibonacci sequence in nature. Then, appy what you learned to form your own artwork. Inspire other by sharing what you create.
Included Activities:
- Activity 1: SWAP Kit- Learn more about Girl Scout SWAPS and create your own bird, bee, and butterfly to share with your Girl Scout sisters!
- Activity 2: Take a Symmetry Hike- Use nature as your inspiration for a symmetrical painting project.
- Activity 3: Create Symmetrical Art- Construct a paper relief sculpture using ancient techniques.
- Activity 4: Make circular symmetry - Use a natural object, bird seeds, to create a beautiful design that can be hung outside for feathered friends.
- Activity 5: Design a Fractal Bouquet- Recreate what you see in nature with pipe cleaners and beads.
- Activity 6: Find Fibonacci- Learn about the Fibonacci sequence. Then, display what you gathered visually with an art project.
Cadettes Special Agent Box
Do you like true crime books, movies, or shows? Discover the careers these pieces of media gain inspiration from. You'll dive right in with fingerprinting, splatter analysis, and body language whhile learning about forensic science and criminal psychology. Use your intuition to learn the skills needed to solve crimes.
Included Activities:
- Activity 1: SWAP Kit- Learn more about Girl Scout SWAPS and create your own bird, bee, and butterfly to share with your Girl Scout sisters!
- Activity 2: Investigate- Discover the different types of fingerprints as you compare your own prints with those of your friends and family.
- Activity 3: Reveal Reality- Measure the length, gait, and shape using an old pair of shoes to create footprints.
- Activity 4: Try the Science- Become a ballistics and blood spatter analysis by making your own crime scene
- Activity 5: Key into Body Language- Complete a body language analysis after reviewing some standard techniques used by experts.
- Activity 6: Practice the Art of Detection- Use clay to sculpt a suspect portrait and determine the limits of suspect recreations.