Just in time for Girl Scouts 100th anniversary, the Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting is all new!
UPDATE: Preorders of the Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting will be shipped to customers starting October 5. Preorder customers who did not elect to shipping can expect a call from the store in which they ordered letting them know when to pick up their guide. Due to the demand of the Girls Guides, the first shipment has sold out, and GSMW is expecting a second shipment to arrive soon. Council stores will continue to take pre-orders until the second shipment of Girls Guides arrives later this month, and the guides not spoken for in the preorder will be made available to the public. Visit gsmw.org/shop/whats-new/girls-guide for the latest information on the Girl’s Guide availability.
Preorders now being accepted for the Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting, available fall 2011 in council shops. Each Girl Scout level has its own Girl’s Guide, presented in a colorful standard-size binder.
With the release of The Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting, girls will have many relevant, age-appropriate badges to complete and enjoy, including badges that honor the heritage of Girl Scouts while offering contemporary skill-building activities.
The guide is broken into three sections:
- Handbook
- Badges
- My Girl Scouts
More specifically, the Girl’s Guide includes the grade-level handbook; requirements for Legacy, Financial Literacy, and Cookie Business badges, and Make Your Own badges; information about earning Bridging and Bronze, Silver, and Gold awards (for Juniors through Ambassadors); and accessory pages such as scrapbooking pages.
Each badge has five steps. Girls complete all five to earn the badge. (There are three choices for completing each step. Girls need only do one.) The five steps vary depending on the skill girls are learning. All physical badges are purchased separately.
Preorder your copy of the Girl’s guide today at 25% off the regular price of $22.50!
Read more about the Girl’s Guide at GSUSA’s website.
Resources:
The National Program: What Girls Do
The Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting works with national leadership journeys to add skill-building to the leadership skills girls learn through the three keys of Discover, Connect, and Take Action. To build specific skills, the national proficiency badge categories include Legacy, Financial Literacy, Cookie Business, Skill-Building, and Make Your Own badges.
Below, based on age level, is a girl’s option to choose a journey with the Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting:
- What Daisies Do
- What Brownies Do
- What Juniors Do
- What Cadettes Do
- What Seniors Do
- What Ambassadors Do
Looking for MORE Ways to Build Skills? Try Badge Sets:
Skill-Building Badge Activity sets for Brownies through Seniors can be added to the Girl’s Guide. A set includes the requirements for badges tied to each of the three journeys. They offer great examples of ways to incorporate the skills while on a Journey, but can also be used on their own! Available in fall 2011. All skill building badge activity sets will retail at $4/set (All physical badges are purchased separately and individually).
Girl Scout Daisy
- Daisies do not have additional badge skill sets. Daisies will have a special approach. They will continue to earn Petals with new stories and activities and can now earn Financial Literacy and Cookie Business “Leaves” to go with their Petals.
Girl Scout Brownie
- It’s your Story – Tell it! (World of Girls) : Letterboxer, Pets, Making Games, Inventor, Making Friends
- It’s your Planet – Love it! (Wonders of Water): Potter, Household Elf, Senses, Hiker, My Great Day
- It’s your World – Change it! (Quest): Computer Expert, My Best Self, Dancer, Home Scientist, My Family Story
Girl Scout Junior
- It’s your Story – Tell it! (Amuse): Geocacher, Animal Habitats, Playing the Past, Product Designer, Social Butterfly
- It’s your Planet – Love it! (Get Moving): Jeweler, Gardener, Detective, Camper, Independence
- It’s your World – Change it! (Agent of Change): Digital Photographer, Staying Fit, Musician, Entertainment Technology, Scribe
Girl Scout Cadette
- It’s your Story – Tell it! (Media): Animal Helpers, Netiquette, Night Owl, Field Day, Entrepreneur
- It’s your Planet – Love it! (Breathe): Trailblazing, Babysitter, Woodworker, Book Artist, Special Agent
- It’s your World – Change it! (Amaze): Public Speaker, Eating for Beauty, Dig [Badge Sets - SENIOR] ital Movie Maker, Screenwriter, Science of Happiness
Girl Scout Senior
- It’s your Story – Tell it! (Sisterhood): Traveler, Voice of Animals, Game Visionary, Social Innovator, Business Etiquette
- It’s your Planet – Love it! (Sow What?): Textile Artist, Room Makeover, Truth Seeker, Adventurer, Car Care
- It’s your World – Change it! (Girltopia): Website Designer, Women’s Health, Troupe Performer, Science of Style, Novelist
Girl Scout Ambassador
- Ambassadors do not have additional badge skill sets. Research shows juniors and seniors in high school are interested in earning fewer badges than girls at other levels; many are pursuing their Girl Scout Gold Awards and are busy with college preparation and other high school activities.
Discontinued Merchandise
All stores are excepting returns on all retired merchandise until September 30, 2011. A receipt must accompany returns for a full refund. If no receipt is available an exchange will be given and merchandise will be refunded at current store price, which would be 20% off the original price.
Items that are retired include all current age level badge books/handbooks, all current age level leader guides, all current age level try-its, badges and IP’s, and all current troop crests. Please be aware that all items being returned must be in the original packing as it was purchased.
All retired badges will continue to 20% off until September 30, 2011. After this date the retired badges will still be available at regular price. If you are looking for retired badges, please contact the Billings Headquarters Shop at 800-736-5243 ext. 2023.
If you return items other than what is being retired our store specialist will determine if that item is not discontinued or worn. If the any items are discontinued or worn we will not process a refund for those items.