Girl Scouts at Home represents a new way to participate in the Girl Scout experience—from virtually anywhere. We're making select Girl Scout program resources available to every girl, parent, caregiver, volunteer, and troop leader. Check out the abundance of badge-earning, skill-building, and fun program activities and videos being updated here regularly.
Join Program Manager Ashley for Activities with Ashley. Designed for girls in grades K-5, these activities incorporate and explore the four pillars of Girl Scouting: Life Skills, Entrepreneurship, Outdoors, and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math).
Girls can follow along with Ashley on her videos as she teaches a new craft or activity that they can do at home.
When girls take the lead, great things happen. Check out these challenges, and the program activities for your specific Girl Scout level, which can be done at home:
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Power Can’t Be Quarantined Virtual Challenge
Check
off 25 items or more to complete the challenge and earn a fun patch
that can be purchased at the Council Shops.
My
Promise, My Faith
Experience a faith journey through exploration of the Girl
Scout Law and teachings from your faith. Ask questions, find
inspiration, and share what you have learned with a family member,
friend, or faith community.
How to Make Navajo Flatbread
(Video)
Navajo
Flatbread Recipe (PDF)
Jennifer Roth teaches us how
to make Navajo Flatbread.
How to Sew a Sock Puppet (Video)
Nayibe Manrique teaches us how to correctly sew a button and
make a sock puppet.
Making an Origami Frog (Video)
Jennifer Roth teaches us how to make an Origami Frog with paper.
Plein Air Watercolor Painting (Video)
Jennifer Roth teaches us how to create beautiful Plein Air
Watercolor Paintings, which are paintings that are inspired by and
completed in the great outdoors.
Girl Scout Badges and Patches can be purchased at our Council Shops.
You can find more virtual Girl Scout program activities and at-home ideas on the Girl Scout National Website, too.
There are many ways a Girl Scout Daisy can still participate in Girl Scout activities and earn badges and patches. Check out these program activities that can be done at home!
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Scout Daisies: Roller Coaster Design
Discover engineering by
creating your very own roller coaster and car.
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Scout Daisies: Good Neighbor Challenge
While we are home, lets come up with our own special way to
support those that are helping us. Research your city or town,
discover what makes New Jersey special, and support your
community.
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Scout Daisies: Buddy Camper Challenge
Let’s use our imagination and resources wisely. Go camping in
your backyard! Pitch a tent (if you have one) or build a fort, eat
outside, figure out what food you will eat, sing a camp song, and
spend an afternoon outside in your yard, if possible.
Girl
Scout Daisies: Model Car Challenge
Ready, set,
build, test, race! Get the whole family involved and build your own
model cars and race track! Learn about force, friction, and gravity to
optimize the speed of your car.
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Scout Daisies: Trail Adventure Challenge
Be an adventurer! Be imaginative and go on an adventure at
home. Create stations that represent different places you would like
to go. Think about how far away your destination would be. Discover
how focusing on your breathing could help you get to your destination.
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Scout Daisies: Talk It Up Challenge
Start the conversation about your cookie program funds with
your troop and leaders. What is your personal cookie money earning
goal for this year? Part of what Girl Scouts do is help others and
make the world a better place by taking action. This means you find a
place or people that need something. Then you come up with a way to
help them and put a plan into action.
Girl Scout Badges and Patches can be purchased at our Council Shops.
You can find more virtual Girl Scout program activities and at-home ideas on the Girl Scout National Website, too.
There are many ways a Girl Scout Brownie can still participate in Girl Scout activities and earn badges and patches. Check out these program activities that can be done at home!
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Scout Brownies: Home Scientist
Explore the science of cooking and examine static electricity
while baking bread, making liquids bubble up, or mixing your own salad dressing.
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Scout Brownies: My Family Story Challenge
Learn about yourselves and your family’s history. Make it a
family affair! Explore your family’s story, learn where they are from,
create your own story tree, and find an object that means something
special to your family.
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Scout Brownies: Household Elf Challenge
Let’s learn some new household habits to help our families save
energy, save water, and save the planet.
Girl
Scout Brownies: Fling Flyer Challenge
Congratulations, you’re in training to become an aeronautical
engineer! Learn, design, build, and test to create your fling flyer.
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Scout Brownies: My Great Day Challenge
Think about how you start your day. Do you wake up with an
alarm clock or does someone wake you up? How do you decide what to
wear? Is everything where you need it? What would you change about
your day to make yourself more organized?
Girl
Scout Brownies: Race Car Design Challenge
Get creative! Design your race car and race track, then test
them out using "fair tests" to learn how design effects
speed. How will your design effect the speed of your race car? Ready
your imaginary engine; design, build, test, and improve. Get ready
to...3, 2, 1 Go!
Girl Scout Badges and Patches can be purchased at our Council Shops.
You can find more virtual Girl Scout program activities and at-home ideas on the Girl Scout National Website, too.
There are many ways a Girl Scout Junior can still participate in Girl Scout activities and earn badges and patches. Check out these program activities that can be done at home!
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Scout Juniors: Product Designer
Learn how to chart the
products you find at home and design your own solutions through
innovative product creation.
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Scout Juniors: Musician Challenge
Let’s get funky, fun, and jazzy. Discover the magic of music
and how important it is in our lives. Create your own instrument and
microphone and choose a scene from your favorite family movie.
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Scout Juniors: Playing the Past Challenge
We can learn a lot from our past and the experiences of others
around us. Jump into history and experience what a colonial
schoolhouse was like, dress up, make a quill, create a bonnet, paper
quilt, and put on a colonial fashion show.
Girl
Scout Juniors: Space Science Investigator
Discover the magic of space science and complete step two of
your badge! Learn how to measure a year, how many times you have
orbited the sun, and complete your birthday walk.
Girl
Scout Juniors: Independence Challenge
Make a plan to go on a trip, research the logistics, cost, and
time to travel to your destination. Think about how many people will
be with you and if they have any scheduling conflicts. Discover
transportation avenues to help someone who cannot drive to get to
where they need to be, create your independence (I)-statement, learn
about healthy friendships, and what to do in the case of an emergency.
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Scout Juniors: Digital Photographer Challenge
Everyone thinks of the world and their surroundings
differently. Take tons of photos, edit, and learn from a
photography expert. Take photos from your point of view and show your
family and friends an insight into your mind’s eye.
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Scout Juniors: Scribe Challenge
Explore what you can do with words and find out how you can
encourage, entertain, and excite people with writing. Be creative,
write a poem by using the titles on the spines of books, write a
haiku, a limerick, design the cover to your autobiography, and write
about something you are passionate about. Let’s see what a great poet
you are!
Girl Scout Badges and Patches can be purchased at our Council Shops.
You can find more virtual Girl Scout program activities and at-home ideas on the Girl Scout National Website, too.
There are many ways a Girl Scout Cadette can still participate in Girl Scout activities and earn badges and patches. Check out these program activities that can be done at home!
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Scout Cadettes: Special Agent
Examine the art of
investigation, learn how to reveal reality, and get your whole
family involved in some crime science time.
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Scout Cadettes: Eating for You Challenge
Learn how your diet affects your stress level, skin, sleep, and energy.
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Scout Cadettes: Animal Helpers Challenge
Learn how the human-animal connection has evolved over time,
read stories about animal heroes, and get a sense of different animals
unique skills and abilities.
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Scout Cadettes: Netiquette Challenge
The digital world makes it easy to stay in touch and share
friendships, memories, and ideas. Learn how to make positive choices
in the online world and help others do the same.
Girl
Scout Cadettes: Digital Movie Maker
Action! Directors imagine what they want the scene to be, long
before they get to filming. Learn digital video basics, determine your
subject, film your movie, edit and premiere.
Girl
Scout Cadettes: Screenwriter Challenge
When movies and tv shows thrill you, make you laugh, or have a
fantastic twist, a movie or TV show can seem like magic. A great show
starts with a great script! Be a screenwriter and write or rewrite
scripts that are meant to be filmed. Be as creative as you would like
and set the scene for your first show or movie premiere.
Girl Scout Badges and Patches can be purchased at our Council Shops.
You can find more virtual Girl Scout program activities and at-home ideas on the Girl Scout National Website, too.
There are many ways a Girl Scout Senior can still participate in Girl Scout activities and earn badges and patches. Check out these program activities that can be done at home!
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Scout Seniors: Digital Game Designer
Create your own video game
and brainstorm a "game for good" scenario, as well as
design and iterate your game.
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Scout Seniors: Game Visionary
Games are fun so let’s make one...or a few! Make your own game
based off your favorite book, movie, or song and play.
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Scout Seniors: Collage Artist Challenge
Create something new out of something old. Read about three
collage time periods, make an inspiration notebook and learn how to
use cubomania. Layout your composition, use textures, found objects
and one to three colors.
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Scout Seniors: Room Makeover Challenge
Have some fun and give your room a makeover! Gather ideas and
inspiration, paint, sew, redo, and build something. Learn how to do a
fast, fun, and thrifty room makeover.
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Scout Seniors: Novelist Challenge
Let’s crack open your favorite book! Why is it your favorite?
Do you like the plot, characters, or the genre? Be a novelist
yourself, and learn from the writers you enjoy reading. Deconstruct a
novel, create great characters, develop a plot, write and edit 20 pages.
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Scout Seniors: Troupe Performer Challenge
The show must go on! Develop, rehearse, launch your
performance, and put on a show. Virtually get together with your
friends, troop, or family and build your troupe. Make your show fit
your time and resources, divide roles, and find space to practice and perform.
Girl Scout Badges and Patches can be purchased at our Council Shops.
You can find more virtual Girl Scout program activities and at-home ideas on the Girl Scout National Website, too.
There are many ways a Girl Scout Ambassador can still participate in Girl Scout activities and earn badges and patches. Check out these program activities that can be done at home!
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Scout Ambassadors: Digital Game Designer
Create your own video game
and brainstorm a "game for good" scenario, as well as
design and iterate your game.
Girl
Scout Ambassadors: Dinner Party Challenge
Make just
another night something to remember. Host a dinner party for your
family. Prepare food, cook, set the table, time your courses, and
dress up.
Girl
Scout Ambassadors: Water Challenge
Learn more about water and reflect on the role that water plays
in your life and around the world.
Girl
Scout Ambassadors: Photographer Challenge
Everyone thinks of the world and their surroundings
differently. Document, experiment, and learn the art of photography.
Take photos from your point of view and show your family and friends
an insight into your mind’s eye.
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Scout Ambassadors: Outdoor Art Master Challenge
Become an outdoor art master and share with others at your
private gallery show case. Create a sun catcher, make something with
lashings, and discover the sounds of nature.
Girl
Scout Ambassadors: Eco Advocate Challenge
Research an environmental issue that is important you, find
solutions, and make a difference. Even the smallest change can spawn a
huge response. Choose a cause, make a difference, and improve the
environment.
Girl Scout Badges and Patches can be purchased at our Council Shops.
You can find more virtual Girl Scout program activities and at-home ideas on the Girl Scout National Website, too.
Girl Scout Juniors, Cadettes, Seniors and Ambassadors—are you ready to start earning your Girl Scout Bronze, Silver, or Gold Award? Now is a great time to work on Girl Scouting’s Highest Awards. Learn more, download guidelines, and get started.
For assistance or to be part of an upcoming workshop, contact Program Manager Pat Christie at (973) 248-8200 or pchristie@gsnnj.org.
Rule number one when it comes to emergencies? Stay calm. When your girls could use a sense of calm, you can help.
These articles from Girl Scouts of the USA are a great resource:
Our Volunteer Training web page offers Girl Scout Volunteers training through self-study guides and recorded webinars that can be accessed via our website.
For additional updates regarding postponed or canceled events, and
the latest Troop
Meeting Guidelines, visit GSNNJ's COVID-19
Updates and Resources.
For our Girl Scout Families, here is a link to some resources that
may be of help during this challenging time, compiled by the New
Jersey Department of Children and Families:
HOTLINES/HELPLINES
To keep your troop connected, consider hosting virtual meetings. Check out this article from Girl Scouts of the USA: How I Make Virtual Meetings Work for My Troop.
For additional updates regarding postponed or canceled events, and the latest Troop Meeting Guidelines, visit GSNNJ's COVID-19 Updates and Resources.
Staying connected to others even when you can’t be together supports girls’ mental and emotional well-being. Using privacy settings when implementing social platforms is key to helping our girls stay safe. Work with the parents in your troop to ensure parents have given permission for girls to participate and can log-in through their parent’s account.
We suggest trying one of these methods for hosting a virtual meeting:
Did you know Girl Scouts can explore hundreds of badges, awards, service projects, and experiences that cover everything from building a robot to helping animals, from staying fit to starting a business?
Your options are virtually limitless.
Especially curated for kids and teens (whether you’re in a troop or new to Girl Scouts), the Girl Scout National Activity Zone lets you sample a full assortment of Girl Scout tested and approved activities to get a real taste of what Girl Scouts do or to explore ideas for your troop's next adventure. With helpful videos hosted by Girl Scout volunteers, these self-guided activities are ready for you to try right now. No membership required.
From educating communities about food production and selling Treasury Bonds during WWI and the Spanish flu pandemic to planting victory gardens and training in first aid during WWII, Girl Scouts have always stepped up in times of need, and our current COVID-19 crisis is no different. All across our country and our world, Girl Scouts have leapt to the aid of others by engaging in wonderful acts of service and kindness. Now your troop can get involved, too! Check out these Girl Scout National Service Projects:
You can find more virtual Girl Scout program activities and at-home ideas on the Girl Scout National Website, too.
You can find more virtual Girl Scout program activities and at-home ideas on the Girl Scout National Website, too.
Girl Scout Badges and Patches can be
purchased via our
Online
Shop , while our
Council Shops are closed.
Visit our Information and Resources Regarding COVID-19 web page for additional updates from Girl Scouts of Northern New Jersey.
