Last Friday my troop met for the first time this year, as our first January meeting was cancelled due to a snow storm. On the Monday before the meeting, I emailed my parents about the Bronze Award. After reading much about it online, I decided […]

Here is how we finished up the Girl Scout Junior Amuse Journey so we could get started on our Bronze Award. Updated October 2020 To prepare for our final Amuse Journey meeting,  I took the list of stereotypes that the girls generated at our previous […]

In a blog post I wrote back in April regarding discontinued Girl Scout badges, a reader named Linda asked how Juniors can earn badges for crafts since the new program for Juniors had none. There are two ways you can do this. The first is […]

On Friday, I shared with you what I was going to do with my Junior troop as we met for the first time this year. Gathering them together in the front of the office, I could sense the excitement, and that made me feel good […]

I am very excited for our very first Junior Girl Scout meeting of the year.  It has been a long time since we have gotten together as a group, and I am looking forward to a very different kind of year. First of all, we […]

I was doing some research for my school’s PTA for fundraising by recycling shoes, and I came upon this news story from April 2013.  A Junior troop in Maine collected over 280 pounds of shoes to recycle and send to Third World countries.  The money […]