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Any
service project completed this month and related to this
month's theme will count as a council wide service project
for the
Great
Blue Heron Pin.
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Council-Wide
Service Projects for May-June:
Literacy
Community
Resources
Service
Project Ideas
- Collect
school supplies for the Waukesha
County Back Pack Coalition. Provides needed backpacks and
school supplies to struggling families so they may have a successful
start to the new school year. Girl Scouts - Great Blue Heron Council
has supported this effort for several years, including collecting
items at many day camps.
Here is a list
(in pdf format) for you to download and take to the store.
- Hold a used
book sale and donate the money to a literacy group.
- Collect
used books to give to a hospital children’s wing, waiting
area, nursing home, shelter, preschool, day care center or Head
Start Program.
- Read aloud
to a person who is visually impaired.
- Contact
your local library to see how you can volunteer.
- Read a book
aloud to record it on a cassette tape and donate to a nursing
home or center for the visually impaired.
- Organize
a reading hour for children in your neighborhood.
- Make your
own books that teach basic concepts (math, manners, safety, etc.)
and then donate them to a preschool program, kindergarten class,
Head Start program.
- Make simple
reading and math flash cards for a preschool or day care center.
- Tutor other
people to help improve their reading ability.
- Teach another
person a language you know.
- Offer to
repair books in a church, day care, school or nature center library.
- Use your
allowance to purchase a book for a church, day care, school or
nature center library.
RELATED
PROGRAMS/BADGES
Remember if
one of the requirements for a recognition is to do a service project,
the girls cannot do the same service project for the Great Blue
Heron Service pin. The girls can also earn the recognition by completing
the required number of activities without the service activity.
- Brownie
Girl Scout Try-Its: Caring and Sharing, Her Story
- Junior
Girl Scout Badges: Across Generations, Books, Caring
for Children, It’s Important to Me, My Community
- Cadette
and Senior Interest Project Patches: Generations Hand
in Hand, Reading
Patch Programs – Follow the Reader, Read to Lead
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