Girl Scout Programming and Service Offerings
ACR offers a variety of programming tailored to Girl Scouts. We have customized tours, service projects, SWAPs workshops and badge earning opportunities. Girls can take a behind the scenes tour of the center, participate in a scavenger hunt, and complete a service project geared towards the ages of your troop members. Credit is also available to girls looking to fulfill requirements for school, National Honor Society or other organizations. A guided tour of the Creative Reuse Center helps scouts learn about some of the kinds of donations ACR receives, how they are given added value through the sorting and merchandising process, and how they are displayed for sale or creative projects. We will talk about the environmental impact of Creative Reuse Centers along with the role that reuse plays in the importance of the 3 Rs. For an additional fee per girl, ACR can provide materials to make custom SWAPs or offer reuse workshops including making succulent planters, birdhouses, scrapbooks, or journals. All of the below offerings can be designed for Girl Scouts of any program level!
General Offerings
Girl Scout Field Trip $3.00/scoutCome to ACR where your troop will learn about reuse, tour the center and participate in a scavenger hunt. Girl Scout Service Project $3.00/scoutField trip (above) + volunteer activity in the center based on the girls’ ages and interests . Custom Girl Scout Reuse Workshop $5.00/scoutField Trip (above) + a hands on creative reuse workshop using materials and tools provided by ACR. Example activities include making succulent planters, birdhouses, scrapbooks, or journals. Girl Scout SWAP Workshop $5.00/scoutField trip (above) + a hands on workshop where the girls can engage their creativity to design one-of-a-kind SWAPs using materials and tools provided by ACR. .Girl Scout Badge Earning Workshop $8.00/scoutIn addition to general workshops and service projects, ACR also offers workshops tailored to specific badge requirements. Please see below for offerings. Don’t see what your girls want? Need SWAPs to fit a themed event? Please contact us to design a workshop to meet your needs.
Badge Offerings
Girl Scout Daisy – Use Resources Wisely PetalGirls will read “The Earth Book” and learn about the importance of conserving resources and how ACR helps with conservation. Then girls will make a reuse creation to take home and have the opportunity to participate in a service project. Suggestions for the creation include: succulent garden, fairy house, bird house, or SWAPs. Girl Scout Brownie – Painting BadgeGirls will talk with an art teacher about inspiration and review some photographs of works to talk about what they like and don’t like. Girls will then create four separate paintings: 1) a portrait or still life, 2) an abstract mood piece, 3) a set of note cards where no paint brushes are used, and 4) a part of a mural with others in the workshop. Girl Scout Junior - Jeweler BadgeGirls will learn about jeweler’s tools and materials and have the opportunity to make multiple jewelry pieces to earn the Jeweler Badge. This workshop is a chance to explore different media while making wearable jewelry, key chains, and/or barrettes. Girl Scout Senior – Collage Artist BadgeIn this workshop, Girl Scouts will learn about the history of collage and collage artists. They will then make at least four collage pieces, including one 3-D collage and one advocacy postcard that will be flown on a rocket to space (with Blue Origin) and then returned to an address of the girl’s choice.