Serve lunch to the local Habitat for Humanity workers one Saturday or Sunday
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1. Organize a collection and delivery for a local
battered and abuse shelter
2. Collect "birthday boxes" from troops in your
service unit and deliver to children's
shelters or local food banks(boxes
include items such as balloons, candles, plates,
napkins, cups, party favors,
a small present or gift certificate, noisemakers,
confetti, cake mix, canned frosting,
etc).
3. Organize a clean up for all the school playgrounds
in your area
4. Offer to tutor at local homework help locations
5. Bike safety workshop combined with a bike rodeo
6. Plant flowers, shrubs, trees where needed locally
7. Adopt a family for Christmas and or birthdays
8. Organize a food drive for your local food bank
9. Hold a cat or dog show and combine with info.
about pets, healty, sterilization, etc.
Collect dog or cat food to donate
to your local Humane Society.
10. Make "busy kits" for kids in the hospital or
for hospital waiting rooms. In a gallon zip
lock bag, place some crayons
(ask local restaurants for donations) and coloring book pages.
Puzzles are good too.
11. Collect and donate school supplies to local
shelters
12. Organize a towel and blanket drive for the
local animal shelter(s)
13. Make "Baby Sprinkle" baskets to present to
first born baby on Juliette Low's birthday
(October 31st) or Girl
Scout Day (March 12th). Call local hospital to coordinate this.
14. Hold a baby shower for the local child abuse
shelter
15. Collect items to make "care kits" for seniors
in assisted living or nursing homes
16. Organize a gently used toy drive for the local
pediactric unit.
17. Collect coats to donate to needy kids
18. Make simple stuffed animals or collect used
stuffed animals for hospitals, fire departments,
ambulance drivers,
police, etc.
19. Collect books for a local shelter (build a
bookcase for them to go in too)
20. Collect and donate books to the federal prison
21. Have the girls in the troop read books on to
tapes and donate the books and tapes to the local
pediatirc unit,
shelter, or school for the blind
22. Organize a magazine collection drive.
Donate to VA hospitals, shelter, or libraries
23. Make and place Peace Poles in public parks
or school grounds, etc.
24. Go Christmas caroling for canned food.
Put out flyers in the neighborhood a week ahead of time.
25. Organize a badge/tryit/IPP workshop
26. Hold a craft fair and donate a percentage of
the proceeds to local GS facilities
27. Organize a craft fair-set up several tables
with different kinds of crafts to teach.
28. Hold a games/olympics day for local troops
29. Host an Astronomy night
30. Hold a camping skills (outdoor skills) work
shop with different skills and/or information at stations
31. Host a crime preventions workshop
32. Hold an emergency preparedness event
33. Arrange a story hour at your local library
34. Make, collect, or donate "blankies" to babies/toddlers
in need
35. Hold a fitness workshop for all levels
36. Do manicures for women in the nursing homes
or assited living centers
37. Make packages to mail to servicemen overseas
(contact the Red Cross on how to distribute).
Include items such
as books, videos, hot chocolate and hot cider packets, microwave
popcorn,
hard candy, greeting
cards that they can use to send home, small games, magazines, etc.
38. Help the Color a Smile organization (Color
a Smile, POBox 1516, Morristown, New Jersey
07962
(973) 540-9222
39. Help with local non-profit organizations (e.g.
help hand out info for MADD, walk for the
diabetes foundation,
help the local school with events or projects, etc)
40. Help with local troop organizers. Go
with them to troop organization/leader recruitment
meetings and share
your knowledge and love of scouting
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Collect baby and child quilts (that need repair), fix
them, and give to a children's shelter. Or make
make quilts using a print
fabric and a solid fabric with batting in between, stitched together
and 'tied' every 6 to
8 inches.
Bring in toys, toiletries, books and games to be contributed
to the local battered women and
children's shelter.
Other ideas we are suggesting for troops to use the sewing
skills used in making the quilts are:
making bibs for Aid babies,
making aprons for soup kitchen workers, permanent place mats
for Meals- On-Wheels clients,
fabric bags to be used by patients using wheel chairs or walkers
to carry their 'needs',
make learning pillows (one side could have a zipper and the other snaps
or
buttons, etc.) for a local
day care or head start, and wrap-hats for Cancer patients.
Collect several unused pages from coloring books stapled
together with a few crayons in a ziplock
baggie for children who have
to wait in hospital waiting rooms.
Make dog or cat treats for local animal shelters.
Make craft kits to be used by hospitalized children or
adults or shelters.
One of the best suggestions I received is to call a selected
local agency and ask what they could use
that the girls could make
and give. Meals-On-Wheels, Visiting Nurses, Animal Shelters, Centers
for the Homeless, Agencies
that assist battered and abused women and/or children, Agencies that
assist the physically
or mentally challenged, even the local fire or police.
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