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Girl Scouts Service Unit 8

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Ideas for Brownie Girl Scouts    
(Keep simple, short-term and local.)
  1. Adopt a neighborhood senior citizen and help him or her with necessary chores.
  2. Do secret Brownie deeds for members of your family.
  3. Adopt a "shut-in" and visit him or her often.
  4. Make tray favors, scrapbooks, napkin rings, or crafts for children in hospitals.
  5. Plan or cooperate with existing paper drives or other recycling endeavors.
  6. Plant a tree or shrub at your group meeting site on Arbor Day (last Friday of April.)
  7. Visit a nursing home, and sing or put on a play for residents.
  8. Present Girl Scout cookies to a food bank or needy family.
  9. Collect canned goods for local food banks.
  10. Donate money to Juliette Low World Friendship Fund.
  11. Make greeting cards for people in veteran's hospital, or other health care facilities.
  12. Make bird feeders for local park or nature center.
  13. Participate in the adopt-a-pet program at a zoo.
  14. Adopt a service person stationed overseas.  Collect used items and send them a gift box during a holiday when they cannot be home with their family.
  15. Knit, crochet, or sew a blanket or afghan for a needy family.
  16. Help serve refreshments for sponsoring church or synagogue after morning service on Girl Scout Sabbath/Sunday
  17. Become pen pals and write often to a resident of a nursing home or convalescent     center.
  18. Have a party or special celebration and invite peers who are physically or     developmentally challenged.
  19. Plan a party for a Daisy Girl Scout troop.
  20. Participate in a community parade or event.
  21. Make posters to tell other girls about Girl Scouting and give it to your service unit.
  22. Assist a Junior Girl Scout troop in doing a flag ceremony for a local PTA or other
    community group.
  23. Plan or cooperate with existing paper drives or other recycling endeavors.
  24. Help decorate your troop meeting place for a holiday.
  25. Plan a holiday party for daisy Girl Scouts.
  26. Make signs to encourage your community to "Keep America Beautiful" and display
    them in your neighborhood.
  27. Build and erect feeding trays or other devices to feed birds in the winter.
  28. Collect books or other Girl Scout memorabilia and donate it to a library in your community.
  29. Plan and implement a bridging activity with a Daisy or Junior Girl Scout troop.
  30. Participate in a youth program at a church or community center which reflects a diverse ethnic setting.
    (With permission of Tierra del Oro Council)

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Updated February 27, 2002