Girl Scout Silver Award Project Ideas for Entire Troop to Complete Together

My daughter got hers last year. THey did a troop project where the Cadettes had a workshop for the Daisies, Brownies, and Juniors to get all their requirements in for bridging to the next level. It was an all day workshop and the 10 Cadettes hosted about 150 little girls from the whole service unit.
Each Cadette had a station. She manned a certain portion of the badges that the girls were working on and the little girls were rotated. At the end of the day there was a huge bridging ceremony the Cadettes organized.
It took all year to plan, with lots of help from moms and lots of work for the girls.

My daughter's troop at that age did their Silver by doing a book drive at our local elementary schools and donating them to a girls' home. We had so many that they had extras for another children's home. They made donation boxes with signs and coordinated through the school offices.

What a great question! When I was in Girl Scouts, my troop did our silver award project and all the other requirements together. It made it so much easier for everyone.

I assume you're looking for ideas for the actual project? My first suggestion would be to brainstorm with the girls to see what ideas they have. If the girls can come up the project idea themselves, that might be best. It's really inportant to have ALL the girls on board with the project; otherwise you will have some girls won't be fully comitted to the project.

You do the brainstorming a few different ways. You could ask the girls what they are interested in, what they see the needs in the community to be, and maybe even have someone from the city to come and talk to them about what social services are provided. Maybe you could do some field trips to visit different places in the community to see what ideas the girls come up with.

Encourage them to think creatively. If they all like animals, then perhaps a project at the local zoo is the thing. If the common interest is nature, then perhaps work at a nature conservatory is the way to go. If the girls want to do something for children or the elderly, then perhaps a project at a local community center or a retirement center might be up their alley.

My silver award project was putting in a garden at a local nursing home that was accessable for the clients who were in wheelchairs. We got Lasrge beer barrels, cut them in half, treated them with verathane, and planted flowers, herbs and vegetables. Once we got everything established, the nursing home took the processover. The garden is still being used today, 25 years later.

I hope this helps. Good luck, and have fun!

When do you want to be done by. I believe its finding a need in the community and filling that need, correct? With tth eholidays comming up there are lots that you can do. A blanket drive for all the homeless, you collect blankets or set up blanket drop offs at stores and schools then deliver them to homeless (by working with local charity or church group) on a day when they are serving hot meals to the homeless. Or poss a childresn toy drive for the holidays. You can also ask to speak to a city council member and ask them where they feel the girls help migh tbe the most benificial to the community. Maybe working with a local fire dept for a fire awareness day or something to that effect. Or having a park clean up, going to local parks and cleaning them up or raising money to help build a new park in the area, Hope this helps, the poss are actually endless, it really depends on where you live and what you feel you could do to make it better.

Get the girls to brainstorm some ideas of what type of community service projects they might want to do. Let them research the projects and find out what is involved. Then let them pick something within their reach (or a slight stretch) that they have a passion for doing. That will make it most meaningful. If you google "Girl Scout Silver Award" there are all types of websites with suggestions, some posted by the girl scout council, leader organizations or troops. You might want to look at some of those ideas and use them as a starting point of the discussion. Good Luck to the girls!

My daughter's troop did a skin cancer awareness booth on the local pool's opening day. They solicited samples of suncreen from dermatologists and companies (they received THOUSANDS) which were very well received, they did an informational brochure with pictures, etc., had games and coloring pages for the littlest ones, and did door prizes. They designed their own shirts and solicited items for the baskets. There was a video running on a loop the whole day and you could take a quiz to enter for the bigger door prizes. They also had a dermatologist and a skin cancer patient come talk to their troop.

It has been over 25 years since I got my Silver Award and I understand that it have been rewritten since then. Is there a program that they could set up (for their school, town, council , camp or whatever) so that each girl had a part she was in charge of working on? It is hard to make a guess without knowing your troop or community. Environmental education is always popular in scouting. They could they start/expand a recycling program in school or in your town and then do education and publicity to help it get going. They could organize and run an event for younger scouts in town. We used to have a Mini Olympics every year for the Junior and Brownie troops. In that case he adults organized it but the Cadette and Senior scouts ran most of the games on the day of the event. But you could adapt a lot of different one day events for a project, both fun and educational. Maybe a good place to start is to have the girls brainstorm ideas and topics that they care about individually and a project can come out of that.

Sorry if this is kind of vague but you are welcome to email me if you like. I was in scouting for 20 years (Brownies through to college).