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Outdoors
GSCB offers many programs and resources related to the out of doors. See
your calendar for program kits, camping equipment and resource items.
Every state has state or national parks, environmental offices and a
Natural Resources Department that offer opportunities for service. Check
your local phone book under State or US Government to see what is in
your area.
Outdoor Skills for Daisy guide from Fall School 2006
Outdoor Skills for Brownies
Up guide from Fall School 2006
A Camping We Will Go
Here's a great collection of outdoor program ideas, and ways to motivate
your troop to get away from the TV!
Visit website:
A Camping We Will Go
Download in
WORD format (110KB)
Some ideas to do with your troop:
Camp Songs:
WORD|PDF
Daisy Girl Scouts
Daisy Girl Scouts are curious about the
world around them. Teaching them to protect their world can be as
simple as recycling, planting flowers or trees, making a bird feeder
or reading a story about endangered species. Ask a local park ranger
or other naturalist to come to your troop and share with your girls.
Any projects should be of short duration and meaningful for the girls.
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Seed necklace
You will need a clear plastic pill bottle or film canister with
lid, cotton, a few seeds and yarn. Moisten the cotton. Place
cotton in the bottle. Place two or three seeds between the inside
of the bottle and the cotton.. Put on the lid. Tie yarn around the
bottle for a necklace. Watch your seeds sprout! After they get as
tall as the bottle, plant them. |
Brownies
Your handbook has some great tips on page
100-103 for your girls to do. Brownies love to "Make a Difference" so
involve them in a project close to home. Look around your neighborhood
for a place that could use some color. Get permission from your town,
county, or owner to plant flowers there. Build birdhouses for your
girls to hang at home.
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Easy Bird House
Get a PINT size waxed milk
carton for each girl. Staple the top closed. Cut one hole the size of
a quarter in the center of one side. Punch several holes in the bottom
for drainage and in the pleated ends for ventilation. Decorate with
artificial leaves, flowers or anything that will hold up in the rain.
Remember to use a permanent glue like Eileen’s. Use a shoestring or
cord attached to the top to hang your nest box outside where you can
see it. Wrens will build a nest in almost anything that is hanging! |
Juniors
Juniors understand the concept of conservation-to use
resources wisely. What kinds of things can they name that are they
conserving? (using less water, recycling, etc) Juniors are good
activists.
Look in your neighborhood for some things
the girls feel are harming the environment. What action can they take
to make it better? Check out ideas in the handbook on page 151.
Cadettes and Seniors
Stenciling storm drains to
protect the environment is an activity troops can do. For guidelines
and stencils, contact Becky Fetters at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation
1-888-414-4229 or email at bfetters@cbf.org
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