100 Ways to Maximize Her Girl Scout Experience

1. Ask the leader what you can do to help the troop
2. Go on field trips
3. Learn more about Girl Scouts and share the information with your Girl Scout
4. Read her Girl Scout handbook
5. Learn the Girl Scout Law
6. Help her understand the Girl Scout Law
7. Live by the Girl Scout Law
8. Be a cheerleader for her ideas
9. Contribute to SHARE
10. Make a donation to our council in your Girl Scout's name
11. Encourage your girl to attend troop meetings and outings
12. Listen to her stories about the troop's activities and goals
13. Help her keep her uniform ready to go
14. Never withhold Girl Scout activities as a means of punishment
15. Get to know the other troop families
16. Let the girls get to know you
17. Attend troop ceremonies
18. Take photos
19. Make a scrapbook of Girl Scout adventures
20. Explore Girl Scouting beyond the troop
21. Send her to camp
22. Encourage her to share her experience with the rest of the family
23. Volunteer as a family
24. Express pride in her achievements: leadership growth, relationships, skills
25. Stay involved as the troop ages; help her adjust to more advanced program
26. Plan a whole meeting or parts of a meeting
27. Help at troop meetings
28. Attend parent meetings
29. Provide a location for meetings, ceremonies, activities, sleepovers
30. Act as troop treasurer and financial adviser to the girls
31. Take Girl Scout training (leadership, outdoor, archery, ceremonies, etc.)
32. Plan crafts
33. Invite girls to shadow you at work
34. Shop for materials or snacks
35. Use handbooks and research badge work
36. Review and lead Journey activities
37. Prepare snacks
38. Manage the troop's Cookie Program (Jan.-April)
39. Help her plan her cookie sale strategy
40. Distribute cookie incentives (June)
41. Manage the troop's nut sale (October-November)
42. Assist with the nut sale
43. Develop field trip ideas
44. Provide transportation for field trips
45. Teach songs and music activities
46. Lead art activities; explore galleries or museums
47. Develop camping skills
48. Go camping with the troop
49. Research community service projects
50. Tell an interesting story
51. Share your keepsakes
52. Take first aid or CPR training
53. Prepare a first aid kit
54. Brainstorm with girls
55. Provide childcare for leaders' kids during meetings/outings
56. Attend monthly service unit leader meetings
57. Write a troop newsletter
58. Share a hobby, skill or talent
59. Share a career, plan a workplace visit
60. Pick up or drop off items at the Girl Scout resource centers
61. Sew patches on troop uniforms
62. Plan a ceremony
63. Plan a summertime troop get-together
64. Research youth discounts for activities
65. Share your large home, room, backyard, summer home, open space
66. Explore another culture's customs, food, literature
67. Travel with troop by car, train, boat or plane
68. Serve as in-town contact while troop is away
69. Teach cooking skills, nutrition, food safety
70. Teach a life skill: using hand tools, car maintenance, green practices, sewing
71. Teach self-care: stress relief, yoga, healthy eating
72. Teach a song
73. Teach girls to play an instrument
74. Help girls to play, have fun, be silly, be kids
75. Research philanthropic opportunities
76. Share science and technology skills
77. Do computer research for activity ideas
78. Introduce someone intriguing to the troop
79. Be a hiker or backpacker
80. Share your experience with animals, pets, livestock
81. Coordinate recycling to raise troop funds
82. Be a holiday expert: teach a holiday craft, food, song or activity
83. Create troop scrapbooking pages with girls
84. Monitor Program News for activities and events
85. Be a Girl Scout supporter at your work, community group or church
86. Encourage other girls to join
87. Let her do her own thing in Girl Scouting
88. Lead annual goal setting brainstorm session with girls
89. Research the four WAGGGS World Centers and explore travel interest
90. Help prepare for Thinking Day: research country selected, foods, songs
91. Help troop become pen pals with other Girl Scouts far away
92. Find behind-the-scenes tour opportunities in local businesses
93. Lead the troop in cleaning up a schoolyard, church or convalescent home
94. Go caroling; celebrate a holiday with elders; bring flowers to shut-ins
95. Help partner as a "sister troop" with another troop
96. Make valentines for police and firemen
97. Prepare an activity, craft or discussion about one tenet of the Girl Scout Law
98. Help girls rehearse a skit and be an audience for the performance
99. Learn flag ceremony details and practice with girls
100. Find color guard opportunities
101. Your idea here: _________________________________________