Cake Décor 1: Fundamentals
Get creative with icing as you learn the basics skills of cake decorating from a professional baker. Adults can register and participate too, but not required. Please note: food items may contain or be cross contaminated with know food allergens.
- Level: Girl Scout Brownies-Ambassadors
- Program Length: 1.5 hours
- Total Length: 2.5 hours (includes set-up and clean-up, 30 minutes each)
- Minimum: 10 girls & adults
- Maximum: 30 girls & adults
- Price: $43 per person
- Each participant receives instruction and decorates a 5" vanilla cake to take home. A take home kit is included, which consists of a decorating bag, four tips, a coupler, a practice board, information sheet, and spatula.
Cake Decorating II: Borders and Basket Weaving
Build on the skills you learned in Cake Décor 1, as you work with bakery icing to create ruffled swags, basket weaves, and piping techniques on a cake that you will take home. Adults can register and participate too, but not required. Please note: food items may contain or be cross contaminated with known food allergens.
- Level: Girl Scout Brownies-Ambassadors
- Program Length: 1.5 hours
- Total Length: 2.5 hours (includes set-up and clean-up, 30 minutes each)
- Minimum: 10 girls & adults
- Maximum: 25 girls & adults
- Price: $43 per person
- Each participant receives instruction and decorates a 5" vanilla cake to take home. A take home kit is included, which consists of a decorating bag, ten tips, a coupler, a practice board, information sheet, and spatula.
- Note: Cake Decorating I is a pre-requisite.
Continental Cooking
Put on your chef’s hat and apron and join us in a professional restaurant kitchen at the Black Forest Inn in Stanhope, NJ. Here you will learn basic cooking skills and create a special meal to share with the guidance of a Master Chef who made it to the final round of the cooking show Chopped! Adults may participate and enjoy the family-style meal at the end of the session too! All registrants will need a signed parental/custodial waiver. This program is offered on Monday evenings from October 2024 through May 2025.
- Level: Girl Scout Cadette-Adults
- Program Time: 6:00-8:00 p.m. on Mondays
- Minimum: 10 girls & adults
- Maximum: 22 girls & adults
- Price: $48 per Girl Scout and $20 per Adult
- Location: Black Forest Inn, Stanhope, NJ
- A GSNNJ staff member will send menu options for your group.
Yoga Mini Retreat
Discover how to better focus on what your body can do, than on how it looks. During this program, you'll explore yoga, meditation, and breathing techniques that will help you ignore the negative body image messaging in advertising, movies, television, and social media.
- Level: Girl Scout Daisies-Ambassadors
- Program Length: 1 hour
- Minimum: 10 girls
- Maximum: 30 girls
- Price: $25 per Girl Scout/$5 per adult
- Location: Body Positive Works Studio, 96 East Allendale Road, Saddle River, NJ or participants' meeting space (Bergen County only) at an additional fee.
- Participants should bring their own yoga mats.
Self-Defense
Be strong and confident! Girl Scouts of all levels can participate in this martial arts workshop where we will focus on personal safety training by a 4th degree black belt instructor who has been teaching self-defense for over 30 years. The class includes basic mental, verbal, and physical self-defense techniques that are easy to use and will keep us safe from danger.
- Level: Girl Scout Daisies-Ambassadors
- Program Length: 1 hour
- Minimum: 10 girls
- Maximum: 30 girls
- Price: $25 per Girl Scout/$5 per Adult
- Wear comfortable clothing and bring a water bottle.
Sewing
Hand Stitching
Get ready to learn the basics of sewing! Design and sew your very own stuffed animal by hand and learn how to thread a needle, sew two pieces of fabric together, along with buttons and patches for the eyes and the face, stuff and complete your creation. You will learn different types of hand stitches such as the running stitch, back stitch, whipstitch and the blanket stitch. Our professional seamstress will come to your meeting site and show your troop a new skill. Girl Scouts will work towards earning the following badges - Girl Scout Brownie: Craft and Tinker, Junior: Art and Design, Senior: Textile Artist. Level: Girl Scout Brownies - Ambassadors
- Program Length: 2 hours
- Minimum: 10 girls
- Maximum: 16 girls
- Price: $35 per participant
Sewing I
Learn to use a computerized sewing machine, pin fabric, and learn the language of sewing to make your very own tote bag! You'll discover how sewing incorporates technology, art, and math. We also offer Advanced Sewing 2 and Sewing 3 by request. Adults may register and participate too. This is a Program on the Go which can be offered at your regular meeting site or at one of our service centers, by availability. Girl Scout Brownies and Juniors work towards their Art & Design Badges, Seniors work towards their Science of Style and Textile Artist badges.
- Level: Girl Scout Brownies-Ambassadors and Adults
- Program Length: 3 hours
- Total Length: 4 hours (includes set-up and clean-up, 30 minutes each by instructor)
- Minimum: 10 girls & adults
- Maximum: 16 girls & adults
- Price: $55 per participant
- Sewing II available by request
S.T.A.R.S.
Discover the Supportive Techniques and Resource Services (S.T.A.R.S) needed to develop healthy friendships and romantic relationships for middle school and high school levels during our S.TA.R.S. seminars. Learn how to build healthy relationships through interactive activities and how to identify the incremental nature of abuse and spot abusive behaviors. GSNNJ partners with JBWS to bring this Program on the Go to your troop. Accompanying adults can participate in a separate discussion and workshop designed to provide them with tools to assist a teen who may be in a potentially abusive relationship. Workshops are age appropriate and will focus on developing healthy relationships. Presentations can be held through Zoom or at your troop meeting location. Girl Scouts will work on earning & receive the following badges: Cadettes – Science of Happiness, Senior – Women’s Health & Senior Journey: Mission: Sisterhood! Ambassador Journey: Your Voice, Your World.
- Cadette – Ambassador
- 2-hour program length
- $20/girl $15/adult