Brownie Try-It Awards

These activities were assembled by Palo Alto volunteers and are retained here for historical reference. Unfortunately, because GSUSA and our GSNORCAL Council have now transitioned to the Journeys program materials, we are no longer able to provide any assistance in obtaining the badges/patches/insignia girls could earn in conjunction with them.

Brownies can earn patches for their vest called Try-Its. There are several areas badges are grouped under.

   <>  Taking Care of Yourself
   <>  Family and Friends
   <>  What's Out There?
   <>  People Near and Far
   <>  Bridging & Other Patches

Brownie Girl Scouts, Let's Get Started!

• Brownie Girl Scouts Around the World
1. What Do They Call?
2. Where in the World?
3. Around the World
4. Create a Picture Book
5. Global Games


• Brownie Girl Scouts Through the Years
1. Meals
2. Clothes
3. Entertainment
4. Sing a Song
5. Language of the Times
6. Service to Others


• Cookies Count
1. Setting Goals
2. Good Manners
3. Being a Good Friend or Neighbor
4. Fun With Change
5. Fun on the Job
6. Cookie Talk


• Girl Scout Ways
1. The Girl Scout Law
2. Special Girl Scout Ways
3. S'mores
4. Sit-Upon
5. Be Prepared

• Art To Wear
1. T-Shirt Art
2. Decorate Your Clothes
3. Face Paint
4. Paper-Mache
5. Mask Making
6. Knots


• Careers
1. Autobiography
2. Future Jobs
3. Women Pioneers
4. Career Charades
5. Learn to Earn
6. It's Your Business


• Dancercize
1. Move to the Beat
2. Dance on Stage
3. My Own Dance
4. Dance Party
5. Follow the Leader
6. A Dance Story


• "Eat Right, Stay Healthy "
1. The Foods We Eat
2. Smart Shopper
3. Dairy Foods
4. Food People
5. Balancing Act


• GirlSports
1. Stretching Action
2. Throwing Skills
3. Catching Practice
4. Kicking Fun
5. Volleying
6. Striking with a Paddle or a Racket


• Healthy Habits
1. Community Helpers
2. Beautiful Smile
3. Calcium Counts
4. "Smoking, a Bad Habit"
5. Washing Works
6. Feelings Game


• Hobbies
1. "Your Talents, Interests, and Hobbies"
2. Types of Hobbies
3. Organizing Your Hobby
4. Practicing Your Hobby
5. Making an Example
6. Show and Tell


• "Make It, Eat It "
1. Baked Apples
2. Fruit Fun
3. Sloppy Joes
4. Green Thumb
5. Recipe Book
6. Brownie Soup


• Me and My Shadow
1. Shadow Tag
2. Tracing a Shadow
3. Shadow Animals
4. Making Shadow-and-Light Plaques
5. Shadow Box
6. Shadow Display


• My Body
1. Brain Power
2. Dreams
3. Funny Face
4. Body Volley
5. Muscle Reaction
6. Pulse
7. A Fit Body
8. Body Parts


• Penny Power
1. Cookie Dough
2. Is It Real?
3. Bank on It
4. The Price You Pay
5. Step Right Up!
6. Keeping Tabs


• Safety Sense
1. Street Safety
2. Fire Safety Practice
3. Smoke Alarm
4. Playground Safety
5. First Aid
6. Safety Center


• Sports and Games
1. Skating
2. Bicycling
3. Swimming
4. Games
5. Octopus Tag


• Write Away
1. All About Me
2. Read the Story of Someone Special
3. Group Giggles
4. Becoming a Reporter
5. Write a Letter
6. Like It or Not

• All in the Family
1. Where Are You From?
2. Say Cheese
3. Coupon Collection
4. Birthday Countdown
5. Family Fitness
6. Make a Family Time Capsule


• Caring and Sharing
1. I Care
2. Favorites
3. What If?
4. Differences Are OK
5. A Friend's Scrapbook
6. Be a Good Neighbor


• Friends are Fun
1. Make New Friends...
2. Friendship Bracelet
3. Paper Design
4. Create a Code
5. Measure Up!
6. Flower Power


• Lets Pretend
1. Be a Mime
2. If You Were....
3. Dress It Up
4. Act It Out
5. "Louder, Please!"
6. Tongue Twisters
7. Putting Your Best Face Forward


• Manners
1. Respect for Others
2. Meeting People
3. All Around the World
4. Table Manners
5. Eating Customs
6. Phone Fun
7. Hosting a Party


• People Are Talking
1. "It's Not What You Say, But How You Say It"
2. Body Language
3. Getting the Feel of Things
4. Do You Really Care?
5. Different Languages
6. Become Handy


• "Puppets, Dolls, and Plays "
1. Finger Puppets
2. Yarn Doll
3. Paper Bag Puppet
4. Marionette
5. A Puppet Stage
6. Safety Play


• Stitch It Together
1. Animal Sewing Card
2. Button Collage
3. A Real Page Turner
4. Embroidery
5. Sew What?
6. Patch It All Together


• Travel Right
1. Be Prepared
2. Busy Kits
3. Scenery Scavenger Hunt
4. Travel Journal
5. Sing a Song
6. Pack It Up!


• Working It Out
1. Picture This
2. Clearing the Air
3. Problem Solving
4. Act It Out
5. Negotiate

• Animals
1. Caring for Pets
2. Understanding Animals
3. Creature Moves
4. Looks Mean Something
5. Sounds Charades


• Building Art
1. Building for the Future
2. Create a Neighborhood
3. Discovering the Strengths of Shapes
4. Put on Your Hard Hat
5. Designing an Ideal Girl Scout Meeting Place
6. Designing Space for Someone with Special Needs


• Colors and Shapes
1. Stencil Stampers
2. Colors and Shapes Mobile
3. Making Dough Shapes
4. Weaving Color Patterns
5. A Rainbow of Colors
6. Yarn Painting


• Earth and Sky
1. Can You Dig It?
2. Hot Time in the Sun
3. "Going, Going, Gone"
4. Sky Watching
5. Creatures of the Air
6. Make a Rock
7. What's an Eclipse?


• Earth is Our Home
1. Clean and Green
2. Project Recycle
3. Stop a Draft
4. Cooking with the Sun
5. Recipe for a Miniworld
6. Earth's Caretakers


• Eco-Explorer
1. Exploring Nature
2. What's a Habitat?
3. Make a Habitat
4. Food Chain
5. Speak Up for Animals!
6. Helping Wildlife


• Her Story
1. A Girl Scout's Story
2. Talk to Women
3. Create Tales
4. A Ceremony to Honor Women
5. Help in Your Community
6. Your Story


• Math Fun
1. My Numbers
2. Telling Time
3. Can You Guess?
4. Alphabet Code
5. Budget for Your Troop
6. Money Words


• Movers
1. Pinwheel
2. Paper Copter
3. Ring Glider
4. Windsock
5. Weather Vane Dance
6. Lunch Bag Kite
7. Balloon Rocket


• Numbers and Shapes
1. Math Shapes
2. Origami
3. Mobius Strips
4. Jigsaw Puzzles
5. The Shapes of the Moon
6. Nature Shapes


• Outdoor Adventurer
1. Dress For the Weather Relay
2. Sleep Out!
3. Day Hike
4. Build a Shelter
5. "Touch, Smell, Listen"


• Plants
1. Seed Race
2. Plant Rubbings
3. Baby Beans
4. Leaf Hunt
5. Simple Plants


• "Ready, Set, Go Camping "
1. Roll-a-Bag Relay
2. Bandanna Tricks
3. A Camp Stew for You
4. Storm Warning
5. Knowing Your Knots
6. Hiking Scents


• Science In Action
1. Science and Technology Hunt
2. Weird Glop
3. Balloon Blowing
4. A Butterfly of Many Colors
5. Magnetic Box
6. Light and Color


• Science Wonders
1. Home-Grown Crystals
2. Bubbles
3. Homemade Recycled Paper
4. Presto Change-O
5. Magnet Hunt
6. Static Electricity


• Senses
1. Only the Nose Knows
2. Making a Better Ear
3. Now You See It
4. Can You Feel It?
5. Mapping the Tongue
6. What's It Like?


• Space Explorer
1. The Night Sky
2. The Moon
3. "Ready, Set, Jet!"
4. Shadow Time
5. Star Maker


• Watching Wildlife
1. Animal Architects
2. Animal Talk
3. A New Wardrobe
4. Earthworm Observations
5. Ant Adventure
6. Outdoor Shopping


• Water Everywhere
1. Made of Water
2. Drip Drop
3. Be a Water Saver
4. Water Snooper
5. Water Explorer
6. Water Layers

• Around the World
1. Brownie Girl Scouts Around the World
2. Look at the World
3. Books
4. Global Family Card Game
5. Troop Recipe Book
6. Tappatan


• Citizen Near and Far
1. Citizen of America
2. Getting Along
3. It's the Law
4. Making Choices and Voting
5. Calling All Helpers
6. Reaching Out


• Computer Smarts
1. Be Prepared!
2. Open the Door
3. Finding a Favorite
4. Can You Believe Everything You See?
5. Making a Chart
6. Computers and Work
7. Computers at Play


• Creative Composing
1. Compose a Song
2. Compose Music for Instruments
3. Compose a Poem
4. Compose a Painting
5. Compose a Play
6. Compose a Message


• Listening to the Past
1. Community Stories
2. If These Buildings Could Talk
3. Visit the Oldest Cemetery
4. Tell Stories of the Past
5. Acting Out
6. Games of the Past


• Making Music
1. Move to the Music
2. Singing in Rounds
3. Action Songs
4. Melody Glasses
5. Music Around the World


• People of the World
1. Language Hunt
2. Prejudice Fighter
3. World Stories
4. World Reporter
5. The Ocean Is Stormy -- A Game From Denmark
6. Flags of Many Countries


• Playing Around the World
1. Kim's Game (England)
2. "Red Light, Green Light (United States of America)"
3. Sheep and Hyena (Sudan)
4. Hawk and Hens (Zimbabwe)
5. Jan-Ken-Pon (Japan)


• "Point, Click, Go "
1. Making the Computer Work
2. Learning New Words
3. Writing a Story
4. Playing a Game
5. Creating
6. Talk Time


• Sounds of Music
1. Make Your Own
2. Single String Swing
3. Sliding Air
4. Shoebox Guitar
5. Melody Mobiles
6. Live Music

 

Brownies can earn patches for their vest called Try-Its. There are also several other patch programs and earned awards including bridging.

Bridging - Bridge to Junior Girl Scouts Award

1. Ask a JGS or an adult who works with JGS to tell you about JGS
2. Find out about the awards for JGS (badges and signs)
3. Take part in an event for Brownies bridging to the Junior level
4. Do an activity from the JGS Handbook or Badges & Signs Book
5. Do an activity from the JGS Issues for Girl Scouts booklet
6. Do a JGS online science or tech activity on the Just for Girls Web pages
7. Attend a meeting or event as the guest of a JGS troop or group
8. Do a service project with Junior Girl Scouts
9. Write to a JGS pen pal who lives in your area or another state
10. "Make a poster, collage or a flier showing what JGS is all about"
11. Put on a skit or program about an activity done with a JGS
12. Teach a song or game learned from a JGS
13. Go to Girl Scout day or resident camp
14. Plan and do an outdoor activity with other GS and families
15. "Have a cookout, swim or skate party, campfire or stargazing activity"
16. Participate in a GirlSports activity with other GS
17. Plan a get-aquainted activity for fall with your new JGS troop buddies
18. Write a summer newsletter
19. Do a service project with other GS
20. Learn a new opening or closing for your ceremony
21. "Write poem, song or skit about going from BSG to JGS"
22. Design and make invitations for the ceremony.
23. Make decorations to be used at the ceremony.

Other Patches/Programs for Brownies

• Building World Citizenship
1. *Environment
2. *Education
3. *Peace
4. *Food & Nutrition
5. *Health
6. *Culture & Heritage
7. *Participate in a Service Project
• Connections
  1. *"Read the booklet, do some or all activities."
• Girl Scouts Against Smoking
  1. *"Read the booklet, do some or all activities."
• Girls Are Great
  1. *"Read the booklet, do some or all activities."
• "Honor the Past, Imagine the Future "
  1. *Through the Years of Girl Scouting
  2. *From Sidewalks to Skyscrapers - Communities Through Time
  3. *Opening the Treasure Chest of Americana
  4. *The Changing Role of Women
• Learning About Government
  1. *Complete some or all of the activities listed in the booklet.
• Media Know-How
  1. *"Read the booklet, do some or all activities."
• Native American Heritage
  1. Share Native American Knowledge
  2. Native American Dance
  3. Native American Hero/Heroine
  4. Native American Foods
  5. Native American Map Names
  6. History of Native Americans
  7. Native American Game
  8. Native American Words
  9. Native American House Model
  10. Native American Craft Design
  11. Native American Hunting Skills
  12. Three Native American Legends
  13. Native American Culture
  14. Native American Musical Instrument
• Read to Lead
  1. *"Read the booklet, do activitie(s)"
• Religious Award
  1. *Varies by council.