Council-wide Service Projects for October:
Be a Good Neighbor

Service Project Ideas

• Help an elderly, disabled, single-parent family, military family with someone stationed out of town, or other deserving family with fall yard work—rake leaves, clean up gardens, trim bushes, cut grass, put away hoses, flower containers, etc.
  
• Volunteer to babysit for free so a single parent or young parents can take a break.
  
• Bake cookies, brownies or any treat and share it with a shut-in or lonely person in your neighborhood.
  
• Help clean an elderly or disabled person's home—clean the windows, wash floors, scrub the bathroom, replace light bulbs or other related activities.
  
• Clean up a vacant lot in your neighborhood—pick up trash, rake leaves, or pick up sticks.
  
• Find out if Habitat for Humanity will be building or fixing a home in your neighborhood, —make lunches for the volunteers, help with the work if you are old enough, collect or make items for the home- table centerpiece, pictures, mailbox, etc.
  
• Grocery shop for someone who cannot get out.
  
• Clean up a local cemetery—check with the caretaker and see if you can rake leaves, scrub and clean older stones, trim overgrown grass, etc.
  
• Make welcome packets for new families in your neighborhood, school or church. Include a map, tips on great places to eat, shop, and activities to do, where to find babysitters, how to join Girl Scouts/Boy Scouts, religious institutions, coupons for neighborhood businesses.

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, Listening to the Past
  
• Junior Girl Scout Badges: Model Citizen, Across Generations, Local Lore, My Community,
  
• Cadette and Senior Interest Project Patches: Generations Hand in Hand, Home Improvement, Heritage Hunt
  

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