Recruitment Activity Ideas

Thinking Day
Open Thinking Day to girls (and a parent) who are not registered Girl Scouts. Charge $12 per girl (one parent is free). Have girls check in at a special booth. Provide parents with information on leadership. Register all girls as Juliettes so they can participate in Girl Scout activities until they find a troop or their parents start a new troop.

Discover Girl Scout Camp
Organize an event for Girl Scouts and a non-member guest to learn about day and resident camps. Sing camp songs, show a camp video, ask girls to talk about their experiences at day and resident camp, do some camp activities such as skits and crafts, serve camp snacks. Encourage all non-members to register as Juliettes now instead of waiting until they register for camp. Invite older girls to come to encampment for a day and participate in activities with a parent to learn about Girl Scouts.

Host a Girl Scout Spirit Day
Ask everyone in your troop (or troops if multiple troops meet at the same location) to come to school in her Girl Scout uniform.  Perform a flag ceremony or a community service project for the school. Ask the principal for ideas about projects the girls can do like planting flowers, volunteering to work in the office, picking up trash or setting up recycling stations.

Host a bring a-buddy family event
Ask girls to invite non-members and their parents to a troop picnic, meeting, party, or similar get together. Have different activity stations for the girls and involve non-member parents by asking them to lead the stations. 

Hold a Girl Scout Fair
Create displays of various troop community service projects, Gold, Silver and Bronze award projects or different events.  Serve food, work on earning a badge, make a craft and ask troop leaders to talk to parents about Girl Scouts. Invite older girls to come to encampment for a day and participate in activities with a parent to learn about Girl Scouts

Girl Scout for a Day
Invite girls to attend a meeting with a parent so they can see what Girl Scouts do for fun. Each activity table should feature a leader book that shows how the activity was planned.  Sing songs and have everyone participate in a friendship circle. 

Troop Event Ideas
Invite interested girls and their parents to an event.  You could have each girl invite a friend.  You do not need to take the girls into your own troop.  At the event have everyone fill out a Girl Scout Membership Interest Card.  Please pass these cards on to the troop organizer or council staff.

• Strawberry Picking Day: Go to the Strawberry fields and pick berries!
• Information table at a local carnival or school open house
• Ice Cream Social
• A Girl Scout meeting
• Invite non-Girl Scouts to attend any event your service unit has planned like the mother/daughter tea, song fest or father/daughter dance.
• Hold an open house at any Girl Scout property
• Hold a teddy bear tea and invited girls and their moms to learn about Girl Scouts
• Hold a "bring a buddy "meeting and ask girls to bring a friend who might want to join the troop
• Schedule a "uniform day" at school
• Have your troop do the flag salute for school assembly
• Hold an open house at the school so parents learn about Girl Scouts
• Beach Luau
• Family Picnic
• Community Service Projects

These are only a few ideas.  Feel free to be creative and design your own service unit and troop recruitment events!