Brownie painting badge

*This post contains affiliate links. Updated April 2023 Of all the badges that girls love to earn, the arts and crafts one were, by far, my troop’s favorite to do. Based on a lot of what I have read, many other troops also enjoy crafting badges and activities. Art cannot be rushed. The Brownie Painting badge is one that needs time and will be earned in at least two meetings, if not three. Can you image Picasso being told to hurry up and finish your painting, we have to leave the building and…

At our sewing and crafting studio for kids in Aldie, Virginia we recently hosted a Junior Drawing badge for a local GSCNC troop! If you are local and interested in earning this badge with us let us know! We would love to schedule a private troop workshop. We are official premier program partners with our […]

One topic making the rounds on Girl Scout leader Facebook groups is that the Brownie Painting Badge and the Junior Jeweler badges are being retired. Since these badges are generally popular with the girls, people are looking for them and not generally please to hear this. On the other hand, the badges are being replaced with a new series of Art and Design badges available on the Daisy, Brownie and Junior levels. This post will look at the Brownie badge. You can read about the Daisy badge…

Our troop is working on the painting badge this week. The first step to earning the badge is to discover various types of paintings and use those styles for inspiration. We are not incorporating a field trip into this badge, so we won't be visiting a museum. I thought about bringing in an art appreciation book and showing the girls the various styles. I decided that might hold their attention about 30 seconds at best and that we needed something much more engaging. I decided that we would…

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*All posts have been updated in April 2023 to ensure that all of the links are still viable for leaders to use. I have been my younger daughter’s Girl Scout leader since 2008, when I started my troop of six little Daisy Scouts. Like many leaders, I felt a bit overwhelmed when I first started, even though I had been an elementary school and preschool teacher since 1987. My leadership training was practically non-existent, and the internet did not have many resources available. Every time I…

In the fall of 2023, GSUSA came out with three new badges for Daises, Brownies and Juniors, all of which involved "making". Craft and Tinker is one of those badges. Requirements According to Badge Explorer, to earn this badge, girls Discover how to be a problem solver by making or crafting solutions. Explore making Learn the basics Figure out the function Discover form and fit Tinker with your craftWhen you've earned this badge, you'll know how to craft and tinker to solve a problem. Opening…

*This post contains affiliate links. The GSUSA introduced several new badges in the spring of 2023. One of them is the Brownie Art and Design badge. While earning this badge, the girls will have an opportunity to explore different mediums and different elements of design. Like most of the resources I make, each step has multiple activities from which to choose. Available on TpT Included in this resource: All five steps All printables Introduction Two activities for Step 1 Four activities for…

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If your looking for ideas to make your meeting more fun while exploring what it means to be patriotic, you have come to the right place. Using some of these activities below to help girls find out what makes our communities special and what we do to celebrate all the people in them. Below are a few ideas to get you started. Celebrating Community Activity Booklet Before jumping into some ideas, do you want to skip all the planning? If so, use this Activity Booklet with activities that are…