Girl Scout Week

Contact Sheila Mills if you have any questions about Girl Scout Week.


The following is info and ideas about Girl Scout Week, including both in person and virtual ideas. Please add your own ideas and then let PRSU know what y’all did. Share with each other in true Girl Scout Style.

Ask girls what they think a good way to celebrate would be. All girl’s ideas are GOOD, include them all, then vote.

Remember CDC Covid rules. Ask girls what they remember. Try not to talk to but with girls. It is their troop.

Traditions


Traditions give Girl Scouts a sense of history—and inspire them to be the best they can be.

Sharing traditions with millions of Girl Scouts—and the huge network of Girl Scout alumnae who came before them—

helps remind girls they belong to a big, powerful, and inclusive sisterhood.

Visit Badge & Sash on line to order patches paid for by your troop (dues, cookie money, etc.) and let the girls pick out the patch.

You may then either arrange with the store to pick them up or for a fee, have them shipped.

These will be participation patches, it is a good time to explain that they go on the back of the uniform and to have one,

you must participate in the activities.

Depending on activities, you can get a GS Birthday patch (GS Week, same thing) and/or a GS Faith patch. (see below)

March Girl Scout Days

  • Girl Scouts’ birthday is on March 12

  • This commemorates the day in 1912 when Juliette Gordon Low officially registered the organization's first 18 girl members in Savannah, Georgia.

  • Girl Scout Week is celebrated each March starting with Girl Scout Sunday and ending with Girl Scout Sabbath on a Saturday, and it always includes Girl Scouts’ birthday, March 12.


  • Girl Scouts Celebrate Faith Events

  • These events give Girl Scouts an opportunity to be recognized at their places of worship during Girl Scout Week, share their legacy of service to others, and deepen their connection to their faith and Girl Scouting.

  • Celebration days include Girl Scout Sunday, Girl Scout Jummah, and Girl Scout Sabbath.

What to do (just a few ideas to get you started)


In person, (let the girls decide)

  • Make a Scout Momento, either for the girls or to give away.

  • Read the age appropriate story from the Handbook,

  • Sing GS Songs

  • Play Kim’s Game (or other GS game) look up on line or email me, smills@mindspring.com.

  • Have girls create a play or special reading and perform for selves or another troop,

  • Girls can bring in items and create a collage (ex: brochures, pictures, swaps, pine straw from camping, etc.)

and be sure to identify what each represents on the board (one girl at a time, please). You can use this at

ceremonies and even add to it

Virtual (Zoom) (let the girls decide)


  • Create a song, play, game, craft together at the same time or do by selves and bring to share.

  • Girl Scouts Own, each girl either writes something about GS or reads a poem emphasizing what GS either means

to her or a value in the laws. This is a serious ceremony and ideal for Zoom AND they get a patch

  • Go to a virtual Religious event of the girls choosing. This they do with family and it is “On My Honor” that they have done so AND they get a patch.

  • If you have a large troop, have a parent volunteer (s) keep role and what girls do. Then send info to leader.

  • Play “I Spy”, with the subject GS (girl explains how object relates to GS, could be color, shape, etc. Be creative)

  • Plan a Real Time birthday party to be held “after covid”, when girls can eat together. While you are planning virtually, include recipes, decorations, crafts, activities, invitation list, etc. Be sure and let everyone have a say.

Happy Girl Scout Week.