![]() ![]() It's never to early to help kids learn about what kinds of actions they can practice making the environment a better place.Today we are sharing some super fun ways for your troop to earn the Daisy Girl Scout Gerri Petal. The Three R's: Reuse, Reduce, Recycle – Some authors have a real talent when it comes to putting information into words children can understand. It's a book that's silly but still educational. Your Daisy Girl Scouts will learn about recycling from someone with first-hand knowledge. But they've never heard it from a plastic bottle's perspective! This story does just that. The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle: A Story About Recycling – By now, the girls are familiar with recycling. Your Daisies will be thrilled to be able to take home their planters.īooks for the Daisy Girl Scout Use Resources Wisely Petal Mini Cereal Box Seed Starters – Another great way to reuse cardboard coming right up! Turn mini cereal boxes into seed starters. This song all about recycling is sung to the run of ‘Row, Row, Row, Your Boat' – so it'll be easy to pick up! ![]() Learn the ‘Recycling Song' – Singing is a way of learning that kids love and take to well. “Bee” Resource Wise – Girl Scout Daisies Printable ActivitiesĮco-Tips Printable Poster and Coloring Sheet Daisy Girl Scout Use Resources Wisely Petal Activities Printables for the Daisy Girl Scout Clover Petal Not only is this good for the environment, but your troop will be making an item that will get a lot of use over their scouting career. Use a plastic tablecloth for the outside of the sit-upon and stuff them with recycled newspapers. They're perfect for making with your Daisy Girl Scouts while earning the Clover petal. This is a lovely Daisy Girl Scout Clover Petal idea.ĭIY Sit-Upon – Sit-upons are a Girl Scout tradition. In this example, you have your troop paint on the cardboard, and once it's dry, you assemble them into journals or sketchpads for them to take home. It's perfect for using in a Girl Scout craft project to earn the Use Resources Wisely petal. Painted Journals made from recycled cardboard – Cardboard is such a versatile item. Daisy Girl Scout Clover Petal Ideas Use Resources Wisely Petal Crafts It felt great to show the girls an easy way to turn trash into a treasure. Done and done! Now we had a bag full of cat and dog toys at no extra cost, using only scraps from a previous project. At the end we helped them knot it or reminded them how. ![]() We showed them how to knot the end, then one girl held the end while the other braided. We had plans to visit an animal shelter in the near future, so we braided the fleece strips and knotted each ends of the braids to make cat and dog toys! Braiding was a new skill for more of the girls and the fleece was actually a great material to learn braiding, versus hair which is kinda tricky. If you've ever worked with fleece before, you know how it has that edge with writing or where the print stops? It's like 1/2 inch wide? We had cut those off to make the blankets but I kept them, knowing we'd make good use of them. For our activity, we needed nothing more than the edges left from the fleece blankets we made to earn our Zinni Petal Patch. For our meeting we did our normal Daisy Meeting Opening and then read the Clover Petal while we had snacks, then cleaned up. This post may contain affiliate links which won’t change your price but will share some commission. We have ideas for crafts, activities, books and more. Today we are sharing lots of fun ways to earn your Daisy Girl Scout Clover Petal, and ways to use resources wisely. ![]()
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