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Girl Scouts Service Unit 8
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Ideas for Brownie Girl Scouts
(Keep simple, short-term and local.)
- Adopt a neighborhood senior citizen and help him or her with necessary chores.
- Do secret Brownie deeds for members of your family.
- Adopt a "shut-in" and visit him or her often.
- Make tray favors, scrapbooks, napkin rings, or crafts for children in hospitals.
- Plan or cooperate with existing paper drives or other recycling endeavors.
- Plant a tree or shrub at your group meeting site on Arbor Day (last Friday of
April.)
- Visit a nursing home, and sing or put on a play for residents.
- Present Girl Scout cookies to a food bank or needy family.
- Collect canned goods for local food banks.
- Donate money to Juliette Low World Friendship Fund.
- Make greeting cards for people in veteran's hospital, or other health care facilities.
- Make bird feeders for local park or nature center.
- Participate in the adopt-a-pet program at a zoo.
- 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.
- Knit, crochet, or sew a blanket or afghan for a needy family.
- Help serve refreshments for sponsoring church or synagogue after morning
service on Girl Scout Sabbath/Sunday
- Become pen pals and write often to a resident of a nursing home or convalescent
center.
- Have a party or special celebration and invite peers who are physically or
developmentally challenged.
- Plan a party for a Daisy Girl Scout troop.
- Participate in a community parade or event.
- Make posters to tell other girls about Girl Scouting and give it to your service unit.
- Assist a Junior Girl Scout troop in doing a flag ceremony for a local PTA or other
community group.
- Plan or cooperate with existing paper drives or other recycling endeavors.
- Help decorate your troop meeting place for a holiday.
- Plan a holiday party for daisy Girl Scouts.
- Make signs to encourage your community to "Keep America Beautiful" and display
them in your neighborhood.
- Build and erect feeding trays or other devices to feed birds in the winter.
- Collect books or other Girl Scout memorabilia and donate it to a library in your
community.
- Plan and implement a bridging activity with a Daisy or Junior Girl Scout troop.
- 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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