Girl Scout Programming
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!
All Girl Scout offerings have a $100 base fee, which includes one instructor and all materials. The number of scouts included in the base fee varies by offering.
General Offerings:
Custom Girl Scout Reuse Workshop - up to 12 scouts included in base fee, $8/additional scout
Come to ACR where your troop will learn about reuse, tour the center and participate in a scavenger hunt. Plus, you’ll get a hands on creative reuse workshop using materials and tools provided by ACR. Example activities include making succulent planters, birdhouses, bee houses, scrapbooks and journals.
Girl Scout SWAPs Workshop - up to 20 scouts included in base fee, $5/additional scout
This is 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. Your troop will also learn about reuse, tour the center and participate in a scavenger hunt.
Badge Offerings:
Girl Scout Daisy: Use Resources Wisely Petal - up to 12 scouts included in base fee, $8/additional scout
Girls will read an age appropriate book to learn about the importance of conserving resources. Then, girls will make a reuse creation to take home and have the opportunity to participate in a service project. The activity will help girls to understand how ACR conserves resources and give the girls some ideas to implement in their homes. Suggestions for the creation include: a succulent garden, fairy house, bird house, sculptures, or SWAPs.
Girl Scout Brownie: Painting Badge - up to 10 scouts included in base fee, $10/additional scout
Girls will review some painted works to talk about what they like and don’t like and the use of color and technique. Girls will then create three separate paintings: 1) a portrait or still life, 2) an abstract mood piece, and 3) a part of a mural with others in the workshop. At least one of the works will be created without the use of brushes.
Girl Scout Junior: Jeweler Badge - up to 8 scouts included in base fee, $12/additional scout
Girls 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 backpack clips.
Girl Scout Cadette: Book Artist Badge - up to 10 scouts included in base fee, $10/additional scout
Girls will explore different binding methods used in book making. They will have the opportunity to take apart a discarded book. Then, girls will try out at least one method of bookbinding to create a book and take their skills to the next level to either make a book from something unexpected, alter a book, or get creative with the definition of a book. Girls will likely not finish their projects in this workshop but can take some materials home to finish, as needed.
Girl Scout Senior: Collage Artist Badge - up to 12 scouts included in base fee, $8/additional scout
In this workshop, Girl Scouts will learn about the history of collage and collage artists. They will then make at least three collage pieces to explore composition and color, incorporate found objects, surfaces and everyday items, and create an advocacy message or self portrait.
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.