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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: _________________________________________
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