Our Programs
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Girl Scouting from Home
We have created an ongoing list of ideas and activities for Girl Scouts to do while social distancing at home. Just click on any of the purple links to find the resources or website you need to complete that activity.
Stay safe, healthy and let’s keep Girl Scouting!
Arts & Crafts
- Do a Youtube art class together or on your own
- Follow along with author Mo Willems for his streaming Lunch Doodles
- Do a Photo Scavenger Hunt around your house with your troop and email each other your findings
- Challenge your troop to make one new origami project each week
- Make your own hand soap and put a secret prize inside
- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle! Make a newspaper hat! Follow these instructions to make yourself a fancy paper hat!
Physical Activity
- Do a Youtube kids yoga class together
- Have an at-home dance party with DJ Mel on one of his Facebook Live dance parties
- Do a Beachbody online kids workout together
- Learn a new dance together online
- Practice movement and mindfulness
- Sing and dance around to the songs we sang at our Virtual Sing-A-Long on May 1st! Find the video on our Council’s Facebook page.
STEM
- Earn any one of the Cybersecurity badges, find the requirements on our website
- Make a battery-powered Tiny Dancer
- Do an at-home science project with Bill Nye
- Learn more about weather and earn a Citizen Science badge
- Try a new STEM activity at home
Badge & Patch-Earning
- Work on a Council’s Own Badge from another Council
- Earn the Safety Award Pin
- Work on chores around the house to earn fun patches
- Make a craft out of recycled materials that you find in your house and earn a fun patch
- Attend one of the virtual badge-earning events being put on by other Councils around the country
- Earn a Jr. Park Ranger badge from home
Reading & Writing
- Start an online book club with your troop
- Listen to a children’s book being read to you by an astronaut in space
- Contact another Council to become pen pals with a troop in another location
- Make a daily challenge for your troop to write 5 things they’re thankful for every day
- Listen to a pirate read a children’s book
Community Service
- Write letters to Seniors living in assisted living homes who can’t see their loved ones right now
- Color paper bags for The Breadline’s Stone Soup Cafe to give out for their sack lunches
- Sew CDC approved face masks
- Write thank you cards to people who have to keep working like mail carriers, nurses, grocery store clerks…etc.
- Donate food to the Food Bank and/or The Breadline
Virtual Tours
- Take a virtual tour of a museum and earn a museum tour fun patch
- Take a virtual tour of an aquarium and earn an aquarium tour fun patch
- Visit a zoo online and earn a zoo fun patch
- Take a virtual tour of a farm and earn a farm fun patch
Badge Tip Fridays
Every Friday, our Council posts a new flyer to give you the first steps to earning a new badge or fun patch! Click on the flyer to see a larger version. Have fun Girl Scouting!
Friday, May 29th: Outdoor Art Badges
Some helpful links to earn these badges:
- Create a leaf rubbing!
- Make your own paint brush from nature!
- Never heard of a hammered nature print? Click here to learn how to make one!
- Make a musical instrument from things you find in nature!
- Start a nature journal!
- Find nature journaling writing prompts here!
- Make a beautiful bracelet from natural items you find!
Friday, May 22nd: Engineering Badges
Some helpful links to earn these badges:
- Make a clothespin race car!
- Use the power of wind to make a wind car!
- There are so many ways to make a paper airplane, try making your own!
- Create your own paper airplane launcher!
- Try making your own balloon car!
- Learn about Newton’s 3rd Law of Motion to help you understand your balloon car!
Friday, May 15th: Trail Adventure Badges
Some helpful links to earn these badges:
- Learn how to write a haiku!
- Try writing a limerick!
- Check out these silly limericks!
- Use this story generator to help you get started on your story!
- Find some writing prompts just for older kids.
- This publication called “Teen Ink” has some awesome examples of personal narratives!
Friday, May 8th: Trail Adventure Badges
Some helpful links to earn these badges:
- Learn how to do a sun salutation in yoga. Find out what a sun salutation is here!
- Try a scavenger hunt using your senses outside!
- Fairbanks area trails in & out of town.
- Summer trails around the University of Fairbanks Alaska.
- Outdoor fun at the Chena Recreational Area.
- Make your own trail snacks to keep you fueled on your trail adventure!
- Plan a day hike at the White Mountains Recreational Area. Or how about a day hike through Granite Tors?
- Find great tips on how to dress for hiking!
Friday, May 1st: Cooking Badges & Fun Patch
Some helpful links to earn these badges or fun patch:
- Recipe Idea #1: Pancake Poppers!
- Recipe Idea #1: Pancake Poppers!
- Recipe Idea #3: PB&J Sushi!
- Recipe Idea #4: Sticky Pork Lettuce Wraps!
- Recipe Idea #5: Frozen Yogurt Fruit Bark!
Friday, April 24th: Eco Badges & Earth Day Fun Patch
Some helpful links to earn these badges or fun patch:
- Make your own nature journal out of paper bags!
- Try making your own recycled seed balls!
- Make a recycled art project with toilet paper tubes!
- Watch a video from the National Park Service to learn all about Leave No Trace.
- Learn all about Earth Day from National Geographic!
Friday, April 17th: Girl Scout Way Badges & Daisy Girl Scout Fun Patch
Some helpful links to earn these badges or fun patch:
- Printable Daisy coloring sheets to help you learn the Girl Scout Law!
- Vintage Girl Scout songs!
- “Girl Scouts Together” song and lyrics. This song was written in the 1940s!
- Learn the Girl Scout Promise & Law in American Sign Language!
- “The Gold Sun” – A song that some Girl Guides use to close out their troop meetings.
Friday, April 10th: Alaska, My Home Try-it, Junior Playing the Past Badge & History Fun Patch
Some helpful links to earn these badges or fun patch:
- Check out this website that has lots of cool Alaska information for kids!
- Make your own Alaskan Yoyo by watching this tutorial video!
- This is a cute video that shows you how to use an Alaskan Yoyo.
- Learn more about the Native Youth Olympics by watching this video.