Hey there y’all! Today we talk about the greatest American Institution, SWAPS. Ok maybe not the GREATEST, but still an amazing Girl Scout tradition that is seeing a resurgence! We love SWAPS and enjoy creating them with our girls.

What sort of SWAPS have you made? Share recipes and photos with us at thegirlscoutwaypod@gmail.com

Shout out to the Girl Scout History website!! https://gshistory.com/

Links for SWAP ideas:

https://www.gssc-mm.org/content/dam/gssc-mm-redesign/documents/SWAPS.pdf

https://www.pinterest.com/girlscoutsrv/swaps/

https://www.pinterest.com/modernmedieval/girl-scout-swap-ideas/

https://www.gscwm.org/content/dam/gscwm-redesign/documents/Simple%20Crafts%20and%20SWAPS.pdf

Juliette Gordon Low SWAP

Material for 1 SWAP:

• 1 green button
• 2 skin tone pony beads (i drew a face on 1)
• 1 white tri-bead (the bead with the 3 lobes)
• 6 green tri-beads
• 1 green pony bead
• Embroidery Floss

Assemble:

• String 1 skin tone pony bead on the floss and then fold in half so the bead holds the others in place
• String the 6 green tri beads on the doubled up floss
• String 1 white tri bead on the doubled up floss
• String 1 skin tone pony bead on the doubled up floss
• Separate the 2 halves of the floss, and string one half through one hole of the button and one through the other hole in the button to make a hat that sits straight on JGL’s head
• String the single green pony bead on the two halves of the floss, creating the top of the hat
• Tie the string to a safety pin

Hey all! We’re back with managing girl behavior (the negative kind). Negative behavior in meetings or outings can be tough to deal with, so we give you some tools to help get things under control, or at least a semblance of control.

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Hello everyone! Today is a long one, we deep dive into the democracy badges! This means we will talk about all the badge requirements and ways to earn the badges at each level. This will likely be our longest deep dive episode because there is a democracy badge at each level. If you’ve got one or two levels you’ll find the skip to time below!

Daisies: 7:26

Brownies: 14:30

Juniors: 23:13

Cadettes: 34:06

Seniors: 44:55

Ambassadors: 53:02

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Take action projects and Highest Award Projects are on our minds today! Jill’s daughter just completed her silver award and we are deep into leading the Daisy Flower Garden journey for our girls! This got us thinking about the difference between TAPs and HAPs and how we can effectively lead them. There are tons of linked resources today so take a moment to check them out!

Got a question? Think we’re full of baloney? Let us know at thegirlscoutwaypod@gmail.com

Minor note: Abby does use a curse word in this episode toward the end.

https://www.girlscouts.org/en/activities-for-girls/juniors/take-action-activity.html

https://www.girlscouts.org/content/dam/girlscouts-gsusa/forms-and-documents/our-program/Badges/Junior-Take-Action-Guide-Engineering.pdf

https://www.girlscouts.org/en/members/for-girl-scouts/badges-journeys-awards/highest-awards/bronze-award.html

https://www.girlscouts.org/en/members/for-girl-scouts/badges-journeys-awards/highest-awards/silver-award.html

https://www.girlscouts.org/en/members/for-girl-scouts/badges-journeys-awards/highest-awards/gold-award.html

Today’s episode is all about badges, a little history, a little modern, a little of this, a little of that. There are lots of ways to lead girls through a badge, and we hit on the spirit of the badge vs verbatim badge work.

How do you lead badges for your girls? Let us know at thegirlscoutwaypod@gmail.com

Source:

https://www.georgiahistory.com/resource/juliette-gordon-low/early-girl-scouting/

Hey y’all, today we talk the maker badges! Did you know the creation of them was sponsored by Stanley Black & Decker? We didn’t! We go over the discourse around these badges as they turn a year old, and discuss how we have led them for our girls.

Want to email us? thegirlscoutwaypod@gmail.com will get you in contact with us if you have a thought, question or comment you’d like to have us read on a future show!

This week Awe discuss what it’s like being the leaders of a multi-level troop.Speficially how we got there, why we made the decision we did, and how to do combined badgework.

Link to all the badges at the different levels: https://www.girlscouts.org/content/dam/gsusa/forms-and-documents/members/highest-awards/Daisy_GSUSA_BadgesAwardsAndPins.pdf

That’s a great resource for the pins and stuff too!

Are you in a multi-level troop? Do you want to send us an email? thegirlscoutwaypod@gmail.com will get you directly to our inbox, we love listener letters!

Today Jill and Abby talk through how their troop manages money. Between buying supplies and fundraising there are lots of ways to manage troop funds, what is discussed in the episode is what works for Jill & Abby, but what are your thoughts? Email us at thegirlscoutwaypod@gmail.com

Link to the proposal for the fee increase: https://www.girlscouts.org/content/dam/gsusa/forms-and-documents/members/ncs-con23/24_57NCS_DWB_24-09-10.pdf