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• A Virtual Meeting Handbook from the Girl Scout of Northeast Texas:

• Cooking is a great ideas for Virtual Meetings - A pretzel recipe form cooking with the girls is a attached >>>>>>>>>>

• An alternative to our Kaper Charts  https://wheelofnames.com

• Other good councils to visit for ideas:  

  • Girls of Northeast Texas:  https://www.gsnetx.org/en/our-council/girl_scouts_at_home.html There handbook (listed above) is really helpful.

  • Girl Scouts of River Valleys (Minnesota):  https://volunteers.girlscoutsrv.org/troops/

  • Farthest North Council ( Alaska) :  http://fairbanksgirlscouts.org/our-programs/  - I love how they post their COVID-19 levels - easy to read.

• Instead of Wine and Paint which has been famous the last few year for Adults, they suggest  "Paint & Chip" for any of the level's Art badges.  Have a list of supplies and their favorite chips and drink for the parents to pick up from your house and then let all paint while on line.  You can also do this in a park.

• Paint rocks with inspirational messages and do the same as the one above where you have parents pick up supplies if they do not have at home.

• Convert the badges to virtual activities using at home supplies and YouTube.

• Ask a subject matter experts to join you on ZOOM if not find a presentation in YouTub\

• can purchase the badges from GSUSA and download especially the new badges, and can save to computer and then email to parents for the girls to work on and then show you what they have done, through pictures.   https://www.girlscoutshop.com/BADGES-PROGRAM/NEW-FEATURED-ITEMS4

• Take virtual tours ( We mailed a few out in the spring I will resend)

• Included a scavenger hunt in your meeting.  The scavenger hunt can include Girl Scout items (pic with another GS, craft that was done with the troop, GS T shirt, camp item).

• There are games you can do online: www.jeopardylabs.com (and search for Girl Scouts) and Pictionary (by sharing the screen on Zoom and let them draw). You can use this website to have the girls generate random words for it, at different skill levels  https://randomwordgenerator.com/pictionary.php

•  There is also a Virtual DIve Idea... Very cool...  this comes from a troop in Jersey City.  The contact there is Jodi at info@scoutsjc.org

  • To earn her Silver Award, Kate and fellow scouts Zara and Ines (all from Troop 12912 in Jersey City) have been leading Virtual Dives.

    •  Join a Virtual Dive - the 6th and final one now scheduled is this coming Saturday, September 5th, and there are still spots left..  You can learn more and sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-dive-with-girl-scouts-tickets-114711501188

    • The Dive itself is free-of-charge.

    • Optional items include a Google cardboard 3D Virtual Reality viewer (highly recommended, $7) https://www.amazon.com/Cardboard-Topmaxions-Virtual-Reality-Compatible/dp/B01C2PA0KK/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=3D+VR+Google+Cardboard&qid=1596129751&sr=8-3   and a cool "Marine Biology" patch and Take Action ideas ($3) - shipping included can be purchased when you register.

• The girls may be willing to lead a Dive for another troop by request - will need to check with the girls on that.  Anyone interested in that can write to info@scoutsjc.org

•  Sign up to learn how to lead your own virtual dive: https://bit.ly/LeadDive
        Jodi  will survey those interested to decide on the best day/time for all (or most) of those interested

• Jodi has also pulled a effort together for on Brainstorm Ideas for "eco-friendly" incentives for product sales - and share your ideas here by 31 October 2020: https://bit.ly/EcoCookieFun 

Kate Stephenson (from GSHNJ Council)  will compile all the ideas into a report and share with Girl Scout councils and Bakeries. 

• Join the "Virtual Girl Scout Activities" Facebook group - https://www.facebook.com/groups/656075421820666/?post_id=763011961127011

• For the Cadette leaders... Science of Happiness is said to be  very easy to adapt and do via Zoom.  They said you can follow it using the Volunteer Toolkit and also use Google Classroom; which is a great way for the girls to share their work. 

• Join the pen-pal network https://www.gshnj.org/en/events/girl-programs/pen-pal-network.html

• Virtual Escape rooms.  I send out an email in spring about this, which I will resend but there are also some online which are free.  Here is a list I found:  https://www.simplemost.com/free-digital-escape-rooms/

Good luck everyone and please reach back and give me some feedback on these ideas.