Looking for something to do with your Girl Scouts? Need a few ideas? Stop searching and start reserving! We’ve developed a number of resources that leaders/advisors can use to enhance their troop/group activities. To reserve the following program kits and/or equipment, complete the Program Equipment and Council Kits Form.
Kits and equipment must be requested at least two weeks in advance. Please be a sister to every Girl Scout and return all kits within one week so other Girl Scouts may enjoy them.
OTTERS is a special series of kits to promote Outdoor Tips and Tricks for Environmental Resource Stewardship. Whether you’re looking for new ideas for a troop/group meeting, activity stations at an encampment, or activities for your older troop/group to lead younger girls, an OTTERS kit may be just what you need. Each kit contains instructions for outdoor and nature activities, often including background information and many of the supplies. Even if you don’t know much about environmental science, you can lead nature programs if you have an OTTERS kit! Upon completion of the first kit girls can earn the OTTERS Base Patch (available in the council shop). Girls can earn additional fish add-on patches that go around the base patch for every kit completed after the first kit.
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Adventures After Dark
Program Age Level: Brownie Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B Members
Girls become more comfortable with the nights at camp after they enjoy games and activities about nocturnal animals, constellations and the night sky, as well as campfires, storytelling, and night vision. Kit includes both outdoor and indoor activities.
American Patrotism
Program Age Level: Brownie Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B
Program Links: Wave the Flag, Citizen Near & Far Try-It; Model Citizen, My Community, United We Stand badge; American Patriotism interest project.
Two Girl Scout Silver Award recipients created this kit, which includes books about U.S. history and cultures, a DVD demonstrating flag ceremonies and flag etiquette, a U.S. flag and color guard sashes, a notebook of troop activities, and a CD of American patriotic music.
Animals Try-It Kit
Program Age Level: Brownie Girl Scouts
Program Link: Completes the Animals Try-It.
Girls explore the world of wild and domesticated animals with this Try-It.
Architecture Badge Kit
Program Age Level: Junior Girl Scouts
Program Link: Completes the Architecture badge.
Learn about different styles of architecture and architects. Unleash creativity – girls will have a chance to design their own spaces!
Beach Party Kit
Program Age Level: Daisy Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B Members
Check out the beach party kit – a perfect assortment to plan a troop/group or service unit party. The kit includes wall decorations, sea shells, table covers, and kites.
Birds
Program Age Level: Brownie and Junior Girl Scouts
Girls discover the characteristics of birds, as well as conduct experiments that help them understand why birds have different types of beaks, nests, and food. The activities can be done either inside or outside.
Black History Kit
Program Age Level: Brownie Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B Members
Program Link: Meets some of the requirements for Working It Out Try-It, Caring and Sharing Try-It, Citizen Near and Far Try-It. Girls explore the Civil Rights Movement, as well as early and current African American history, recipes, songs, and games.
Bubblelogy Kit
Program Age Level: Daisy and Brownie Girl Scouts
Program Link: This kit is a fun enrichment activity.
Girls learn about bubbles, what they are, and how they are formed as they explore different bubble molds and make their own bubbles.
Buggin’ Out
Program Age Level: Brownie and Junior Girl Scouts
Girls get “buggy” with the world of insects through scavenger hunts, inventing insects, and observing insects. Most of the activities can be done inside.
Cake Decorating Kit
Program Age Level: Brownie Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B Members
Practice the delicious art of cake decorating! Includes examples of designs, simple instruction booklet, decorating bags and interchangeable icing tips.
Camp Together Badge Kit
Program Age Level: Junior and Brownie Girl Scouts.
Program Link: Completes the Camp Together Badge.
This by girls, for girls kit is designed for first-time campers to help you and your sister Girl Scouts experience a camping trip you won’t forget!
The Camp Together Kit includes: Fun-filled ideas and tips for seasoned campers, trip planning instructions, packing lists, campfire building instructions, tried and true recipes, favorite Girl Scout songs, and camping activities, including trail markers, compass work, nature exploration, maps including animal tracks and star gazing.
Careers Try-It
Program Age Level: Brownie Girl Scouts
Program Link: Careers Try-It
Have you thought about what you would like to do when you grow up? This Try-It will helps girls explore many possibilities.
Careers Badge
Program Age Level: Junior Girl Scouts
Program Link: Careers Badge
It’s never too early to start thinking about different careers and learning about the skills and education it requires.
Chemistry Kit
Program Age Level: Brownie and Junior Girl Scouts
Program Link: Making it Matter badge
Try chromatography! Girls learn about the basics of chemistry by experimenting with corn starch, glue (by making glurch and oblik), coffee filters, and markers.
City Critters
Program Age Level: Junior Girl Scouts
Girls explore plant and animal life in the metropolitan area as they visit parks, their own backyards, vacant lots, and the downtown area. This activity requires exploring outdoors.
Color Party Kit
Discover what colors look best on you and use the color test to see if you are a winter, summer, autumn or spring color. This kit contains color swatches and helps Junior Girl Scouts complete #5 of the “Looking your Best” badge.
Cookie Program Banners
Program Age Level: Brownie Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B Members
Program Link: Girl Scout Cookie Program
Large 3’ by 4’ Cookie Program banners are great for service unit cookie rallies and for directing customers to Girl Scout cookie booth sales.
Cookie Costumes Kit
Program Age Level: Brownie Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B Members
Program Link: Girl Scout Cookie Program
Reserve these great Girl Scout cookie costumes for your booth sale, cookie rally, service unit event, or local parade. Each kit contains two different cookie costumes, sized to fit Brownie Girl Scouts through medium-sized adults.
Cookie Program Recognitions Kit
Program Age Level: Brownie Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B Members
Program Link: Girl Scout Cookie Program
Available November through March. Get ready for the upcoming Cookie Program and check out the complete set of the current Cookie Program recognitions. These Cookie Program recognition kits are available at the council office and also through the council membership managers for troops in Wisconsin and rural Minnesota.
Cookie Program Tablecloths –
“Thank you for your Support!”
Program Age Level: Brownie Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B Members
Program Link: Girl Scout Cookie Program
Tablecloths are available for check out for a variety of Girl Scout cookie related programs including booth sales, cookie rallies, troop/group cookie manager and leader/advisor training, or parent/guardian Cookie Program meetings. Tablecloths measure 58” X 58”. Care instructions are included.
Cooperative Games
Program Age Level: Daisy Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B Members
Girls learn to work together and make decisions as a team to accomplish a set of activities. The activities can be done either outside or in an open space inside.
Creative Writing Kit
Program Age Level: STUDIO 2B Members
Program Link: Once Upon a Story Interest Project Patch
Creative writing can be used for escape, self-expression, activism, and sometimes even therapy. Help girls explore the world of poetry, memoir, and fiction by facilitating writing exercises at all levels.
Culture Kits
Program Age Level: Brownie Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B
Program Links: Caring & Sharing, Around the World, Citizen Near & Far, People of the World Try-Its; Celebrating People, Global Awareness, Globe-Trotting, Humans & Habitats, My Heritage, Now & Then Stories, Our Rights & Responsibilities, Traveler, The World in My Community, World Neighbors badges; Global Girls, Travel, A World of Understanding interest projects.
Explore a sampling of African, Asian, European, Latino, Middle Eastern, and Native cultures. Each kit helps you to learn about geography, daily life, languages, foods, crafts and games.
Earth and Sky Try-It Kit
Program Age Level: Brownie Girl Scouts
Program Link: Completes the Earth and Sky Try-It.
Look down. Look up. What do you see? The earth below and the sky above. After completing all activities in the kit, girls will earn their Earth and Sky Try-It!
Electricity Kit
Program Age Level: Junior Girl Scouts
Program Link: Science enrichment
Girls explore electricity and how it works with fun, hands-on activities.
Female Media Reflections Kit
Program Age Level: STUDIO 2B Members
Program Link: Media Savvy Interest Project Patch, Don’t Sweat It! and
Looking In and Reaching Out Focus Books
This kit is designed for mature STUDIO 2B Members. Based on research from a local college Girl Scout, this kit helps an adult Girl Scout lead girls through several activities exploring the female image in media today. Activities include directed discussion (instructions included), journaling (paper journals included), and tips to make their own magazine (instructions and some materials included). The college Girl Scout’s
research paper is also included.
Fun With Tangrams
Program Age Level: Brownie and Junior Girl Scouts
Program Link: Can be substituted for activity #1 in Numbers and Shapes Try-It.
Girls challenge their minds and use their problem solving skills when they work with Tangrams. Tangrams are puzzles made with seven geometrical pieces – five triangles (two small, one medium, and two large), a rhomboid, and a square – all cut from one large square. The trick is to arrange the pieces to form silhouettes of people, animals, and objects printed on the cards provided in the kit.
Girl Scouting USA Kit
Program Age Level: Brownie Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B Members
Program Link: Girl Scout Ways Try-It, Girl Scouting in the USA badge
Learn about Girl Scout history and Girl Scouts around the world! Who are they and what can you do as a Girl Scout? This kit introduces girls to a variety of council resources.
Girl Scouting Around the World Kit
Program Age Level: Brownie Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B Members
Program Link: Brownie Girl Scouts Around the World Try-It, Girl Scouting Around the World badge
This kit introduces girls to Girl Scouts and Girl Guides. It contains various books, an informational video on the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), as well as other Girl Scout resource materials.
Girl Sports Basics
Program Age Level: Daisy and Brownie Girl Scouts
Program Link: Sports and Games Try-It, Girl Sports Try-It
Girls enjoy learning new techniques of different sports such as kickball, softball, and basketball.
Girl Scout Gold Award Kits
Program Age Level: STUDIO 2B (11-13) (13-15)
Program Link: Girl Scout Silver Award
Preview STUDIO 2B materials for the Girl Scout Silver Award requirements.
Each kit includes a Girl Scout Gold Award Go For It! booklet, and two STUDIO 2B Focus books: Write Now, and Take Change. Does not include Interest Projects for Girls 11-17.
Girl Scout Gold Award Video Kits
Program Links: Girl Scout Gold Award
To further promote the Girl Scout Gold Award and empower girls to feel that they can indeed “go for it”, GSUSA provides a “Girl Scout Gold Award: Go For It” video to assist leaders/advisors in mobilizing a greater diversity of girls than ever before to discover the confidence and courage they will gain when they pursue the Girl Scout Gold Award.
Girl Scout Silver Award Kits
Program Links: Girl Scout Silver Award
The Girl Scout Silver Award Kit allows girls to preview the STUDIO 2B materials for the award prerequisites. Each kit includes a Girl Scout Silver Award Go For It! booklet and two STUDIO 2B Focus books: Looking In, Reaching Out, and Uniquely Me! The Real Deal. Not included: Interest Projects for Girls 11-17.
Girl Scouts Yesterday, Today & Always Resource Kit
Program Age Level: Daisy Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B Members
Program Links: Girl Scouts Yesterday, Today & Always Patch Program
This resource book can be used by troops/groups working to earn the Girl Scouts Yesterday, Today & Always Patch. The book can be checked out in conjunction with the Historical Girl Scout Uniform Kits.
Global Positioning System (GPS) Recievers
Program Age Level: Junior Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B Members
The council has a set of eight GPS units available for check out to leaders with experience in GPS equipment. If you do not have this background, contact the council office to arrange a time for orientation. Units are reserved as a complete set. Kit contains handouts on the basics of geocaches and letterboxes that can be handed out to leaders or girls.
Hawaiian Kit
Program Age Level: Daisy Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B Members
Throw a Hawaiian party for your troop/group or service unit. The kit includes grass skirts, a blow up tree, wall decorations, Luau and Caribbean CDs, leis, a ukulele, and more.
Historic Girl Scout Uniform Kits
Program Age Level: Daisy Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B Members
Program Link: Brownie Girl Scouts Through the Years Try-It, Listening to the Past, Across Generations, Girl Scouting in the USA badge, and Girl Scouts Yesterday, Today, and Always patch program. Each kit contains a variety of uniform components, accessories, and historic handbooks dating back more than 50 years!
Three kits are available:
Historic Brownie Girl Scout Box – 1 kit
Historic Adult Box – 1 kit
Historic Assortment Boxes – 1 kit
How to Become a Teenage Millionaire
Program Age Level: STUDIO 2B Members
Program Link: Dollars and Sense Interest Project Patch and Got Money? STUDIO 2B Focus Book
Just because you’re 16 years old and working at McDonald’s doesn’t mean you can’t start thinking about money. Learn how girls can not only work for money but how to make money work for them.
Introduction to Nature
Program Age Level: Brownie Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B Members
Girls participate in quiet and active activities focusing on camouflage, animal recognition, and predator/prey relationships. Activities can be done either inside or outside.
Learn to Knit Kits
Program Age Level: Brownie Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B Members
Program Links: Hobbies Try-It, Art to Wear and Making Hobbies badges, Artistic Crafts and Textile Arts Interest Projects.
These fun kits contain all the supplies necessary to teach girls basic knit and purl stitches and complete a project of their choice using the cotton yarn and project patterns that are included. Kits are available in two sizes: 5 participants / 1 instructor or 10 participants / 1 instructor. Multiple kits may be checked out to meet the needs of groups of various sizes.
Magnets Kit
Program Age Level: Junior Girl Scouts
Program Link: Science enrichment
Girls learn the basics of magnetism and try several different experiments using magnets and other scientific equipment.
Mammal Mania
Program Age Level: Junior Girl Scouts and STUDIO 2B 11-13 Members
Girls learn about mammal characteristics through hands-on games that can be played indoors or outside.
Math Kits
Program Age Level: Brownie Girl Scouts
Program Link: Enrichment, educational and fun!
1. Cyberchase Pattern Play! This kit contains two activities for a small group of four to six girls. The first activity helps girls become more observant of visual patterns around them by watching a Cyberchase episode of “The Poddleville Case” and identifying patterns they find. The second activity girls make sound patterns using handmade instruments. The kit includes: instructions, video, and handouts. Troops/groups must supply materials (list of materials is on the information sheet enclosed in the kit) to make the handmade instruments.
2. Cyberchase Dr. Marble’s Gotcha Game After viewing an episode of Cyberchase girls learn how to problem solve while playing the game Gotcha!
3. Cyberchase Sort it out! Girls explore ways to use logical reasoning to solve problems by identifying attributes (colors, shapes, size, etc.) and
sorting various objects.
Music Shall Live Patch Kit
Program Age Level: Brownie Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B Members
Program Link: Music Shall Live Patch
Girls try various percussion instruments and learn how to read and play simple rhythms.
Nature Awareness
Program Age Level: Daisy Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B Members
Girls become more familiar with their environment by using their senses of sight, touch, and smell in the out-of-doors. Girls enjoy hikes and creative writing with this kit.
Oil Up!
Program Age Level: Junior Girl Scouts
Program Link: Completes the Oil Up! badge
Girls learn more about oil as both an energy source and a raw material that is used to make many things that they use each day.
The Penny Project
Program Age Level: Brownie Girl Scouts
This financial literacy program is for Brownie Girl Scouts aged 6-8 which uses interactive educational approach to help girls gain an understanding of money and the responsibility that goes along with it.
Program Aide Training Kit
Program Age Level: Junior Girl Scouts and STUDIO 2B Members (6th grade or above)
Program Link: Program Aide pin
Girls explore the basic leadership skills needed to work with a troop/group of younger girls, including the characteristics of various age levels and how Girl Scout programs strive to meet girls’ needs. Girls must be in grade six or above, have an interest in developing their leadership skills, and enjoy working with younger girls. In order to check out the Program Aide Kit there must be a minimum of 10 girls and a maximum of 40 girls. Fee is $10/girl. To reserve the kit fill out the Request for Program Equipment and Council Kits Form and an Event Registration Form for each girl that will receive training. Turn in all forms together, at least two weeks prior to the date you wish to take the kit. The kit includes Program Aide pins for the girls. Program Aide Training is a prerequisite for girls who wish to become Caddies or Youth Event Assistants (YEA’s).
Pursuing Peace Playfully Kit
Program Age Level: Brownie Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B Members
Program Link: People of the World, Around the World, Her Story, Caring and Sharing, Creative Solutions, A World of Understanding Girls explore peace through games, art, music, and working together. Activities can be done in a troop/group setting and are also appropriate for large events like service unit encampments.
Reading for Real
Program Age Level: Brownie through Junior Girl Scouts
Program Links: Write Away Try-It; Books, Communication, Write All About It badges.
Explore how sounds, words and ideas all come together through reading! Listen to songs that use fun sounds, play with sounds to make words, and use words to express ideas. Create a story, song or poem to share. Includes music CDs, audio read-along books, and group activities.
Safety Sense
Program Age Level: Brownie Girl Scouts
Program Link: Completes the Safety Sense Try-It.
Every Girl Scout knows the motto “be prepared.” Girls learn about safety and some first aid techniques with fun, hands-on activities.
Smart Cookie Try-it Kit
Program Age Level: Brownie Girl Scouts
Program Link: Smart Cookie Try-It.
Selling Girl Scout Cookies is exciting – it’s like having a troop business. And this business-training activity can be a lot of fun. This kit will help girls build a Girl Scout Cookie activity portfolio to use during Girl Scout Cookie time.
Sports Basics
Program Age Level: Daisy and Brownie Girl Scouts
Program Link: Sports and Games Try-It, My Body Try-It.
Cones, jump ropes, and manuals give details on how to set up obstacle courses, timed physical activity tests, and other fun activities to help keep girls’ bodies physically active.
Stamping Kit
Program Age Level: Brownie Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B
Stamping supplies to supplement troop/group activities. Kits include stamps, ink pads, pens, paper punches and other tools.
Talkin’ Trash
Program Age Level: Junior Girl Scouts and STUDIO 2B Members
Girls learn more about taking out the garbage by learning how composting and recycling work, surveying trash and household hazardous waste, making recycled paper and household cleaners, and demonstrating the effects of pollution. Most activities can be done indoors.
The Power of She
Program Age Level: STUDIO 2B All members
Citizenship and volunteerism: what is it and why is it important? This kit focuses on women now and then. Learn more about education, politics, social change, and why it is important to have a voice.
Trees
Program Age Level: Brownie and Junior Girl Scouts
Girls discover many intriguing facts about trees with a variety of activities that help them learn how to tell the age of a tree and its life story, what it needs to survive, and what may live in the tree. Some activities provide an opportunity for creative writing. Some activities need to be done outside.
Weather Watch Badge Kit
Program Age Level: Junior Girl Scouts
Program Link: Completes the Weather Watch Badge.
Wouldn’t it be great to be able to predict the weather? You’d never get caught in a rainstorm without an umbrella! Weather affects your life everyday. Girls learn about predicting weather and planning ahead.
Wildlife Wonders
Program Age Level: Daisy and Brownie Girl Scouts
Girls investigate a variety of wildlife such as birds, moles, and other critters. These active games and craft projects spark girls’ interest in wildlife. Activities can be done inside. Some require a large play area.
Winter Explorers
Program Age Level: Brownie and Junior Girl Scouts
Girls investigate animal tracks and adaptations to cold and snow, plant identification, and winter weather patterns through games and experiments. Includes some indoor activities, most are meant to be outside.
Wolf Tracks
Program Age Level: Junior Girl Scouts
Girls explore the habits, characteristics, and other general information about wolves. Activities such as making masks, reading stories, and playing games can be done indoors or outside.
Women Artists
Program Age Level: Brownie Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B Members
Learn about women who made their mark in the art world. Kit includes print materials, art reproductions, biographical resources and art activities.
Zink the Zebra
Program Age Level: Daisy Girl Scouts through STUDIO 2B Members
Program Link: Zink the Zebra Patch
Learn respect, understanding, and compassion towards others through the story of Zink the Zebra. The kit contains an informational packet for troop/group activities and age-appropriate, hands-on resources, including books, videos, bean bag zebras, and sample parent permission forms. Zink the Zebra patch and bean bag set can be purchased at the council shop.
Contact the program department at 651-227-8835 or 800-845-0787 for more information or if you have any questions.
Updated 7-07.
