The Badge Archive

2011 Art Badges – Multi Level

Yes – 2011 Is the current GSUSA badge

Earning badges in a Multi-Level Troop may require extra steps, depending on how many requirements overlap. Some badges have only one or two matching requirements, while others may need entirely separate activities.

GSUSA’s Award Log includes a comparison table for badges with similar themes, but not all have correlating requirements. When requirements don’t align, consider earning two separate badges or awarding a Fun Patch instead.

For badges with correlating requirements, a single activity can count toward multiple badges across levels. The suggestions on The Badge Archive are our best effort to align badges across levels

We’ve organized them into general themes—some featuring multiple badges and others with just one line of linked badges.

Art and Design

Only Daisy, Brownie, and Junior levels have an Art and Design badge. Cadette’s Comic Artist badge can fit with the Art and Design, but Senior and Ambassador do not have any correlating badges.

Art and Design D/B/J Correlating Steps

Recommendation: Use the D/B/J Art and Design Activity List or buy Printable Meeting for D/B/J on Teachers Pay Teachers from Leadership Made Simple

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The Same

  • All three levels require you to look at art (around you, person/place/thing, art studio/gallery/museum, talk to an artist/designer, OR talk to a maker)
  • All three levels requires Make an art piece using a specific subject (inspiring item or topic, portrait, landscape, feelings, landscape, still life, capture a mood, abstract art, OR use digital art)

The Differences

  • Daisy requires Explore art mediums (new or mixed) and make an art piece
  • Brownie and Juniors requires Explore art elements (Brownies – color/lines/texture and Juniors – line/texture, color/saturation, OR shape/form). Both levels require to make an art piece from their art element exploration.
  • Brownie and Juniors requires Explore art composition (Brownies – shape/form, space, OR patterns/symmetry and Juniors – scale, light/shading, OR perspective). Both levels require to make an art piece from their art composition exploration.
  • Brownies require Share your art (display, show, or gift it) and Juniors require Display your art (event, portfolio, OR merch).

Meeting Plans:

J/C Art and Design

  • Follow the Comic Artist badge and ensure all Junior Art and Design are hit at the same time. Speak to a comic artist or look at different comics works for Look at Art. When you practice drawing character, add in exploring line/texture, color/saturation, OR shape/form. When doing the 4 panel comic, ensure that one of the art compositions needed in Juniors is also done: scale, light/shading, OR perspective. Display the comics in a portfolio or event to hit the final Junior requirement.

Art and Design Difference between C/S/A Steps

The difference is that there are no Senior and Ambassador level badges that fit the Art and Design style requirements. They fit the Create and Innovate, Craft and Tinker, or Digital Arts instead. If doing the Cadette Comic Artist badge, Senior and Ambassador can either use the subject of the Comic to hit a requirements in a non-art badge, or simply earn a Fun Patch.

Create and Innovate

Badges that correlate from other levels

  • Daisy – Daisy Create and Innovate
  • Brownie – Brownie Create and Innovate
  • Junior – Junior Create and Innovate
  • Cadette – Fun Patch (no equivalent unless you work on Entrepreneur badges in addition)
  • Senior – Fun Patch (no equivalent unless you work on Entrepreneur badges in addition)
  • Ambassador – Fun Patch (no equivalent unless you work on Entrepreneur badges in addition)

Create and Innovate D/B Correlating Steps

Recommendation: See outline below.

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The Same

  • Both need to make one project that is for someone else. Brownies need to make a second project that is useful to them.
  • Both need to sketch how to make a project better, but only Brownies need to share their creation.

The Differences

  • Daisies do not need to explore how to brainstorm like Brownies, but do need to brainstorm ideas to solve a problem.

<Many troops may want to break this up into two meetings and do one project per meeting, or pick a different gift idea than the Art Magnets. The magnets were chosen only because they are quick and easy when time is limited after making the Art Caddy.>

  • Do the Paper Bridge experiment and emphasize how there are many ways to make the bridge and some work better than others. (Brownie R1)
  • Now that they know how to think of things in multiple ways, have a quick brainstorming session on how they can solve the problem of when they want to do art and have too many supplies to fit on the table and still work. (Daisy R1)
  • Make an Art Caddy, they might be able to use some of their ideas in the creation of their own Art Caddy. (Brownie R3)
  • Make a set of art magnets for a friend or family member. They need to pick out who they will give it to and make the art special to match who they are giving it to. (Daisy R2 & Brownie R2)
  • Have a little art gallery or show and tell (depends on the time you have left) to show each other their projects. (Brownie R5)
  • End the meeting by discussing if either project is one they would want to do again. Ask “What would you do differently if you did it again to make it even better or unique from the first time?” (Daisy R3 & Brownie R4)
  • Daisy and Brownie levels earned!

Create and Innovate D/B/J Correlating Steps

Recommendation: See meeting outline below.

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Daisies do not need to explore how to brainstorm like Brownies, but do need to brainstorm ideas to solve a problem.

  • Both need to make one project that is for someone else. Brownies need to make a second project that is useful to them.
  • Both need to sketch how to make a project better, but only Brownies need to share their creation.
  • Juniors need to brainstorm a problem like the Daisies and make something with a purpose like the Brownies.

The Differences

  • Daisies do not need to explore how to brainstorm like Brownies, but do need to brainstorm ideas to solve a problem.
  • Juniors have to create something to help a community on top of that, and when they share they are supposed to present it or teach others how to use it – so a show and tell at minimum would be needed.

A minimum of two meetings are recommended to get all three projects in. Three meetings to really enjoy each project is a good idea too!

<Do the first meeting like the Daisy/Brownie Create and Innovate meeting outline mentioned above to cover Junior R1, 2, and 4. Make sure you do a show and tell, which covers Junior R5.>

The second meeting to make something for an animal – we actually recommend you do the Daisy/Brownie combo for the Design in Nature badge. The Junior Design in Nature has completely different requirements but the Making of a Birdfeeder fulfills Junior requirement 3. Meeting Example:

  • Print out the Tree Rings to learn how to count the rings to tell how old the trees are. Use tally marks to hit the Daisy level requirement too. (Daisy R2 and Brownie R1)
  • Draw a diagram a hexagon and scale it (the hexagon becomes a stick hexagon on the ground you can stand in). (Brownie R2)
  • Make bird feed (different seeds to make a mix, or a standard feed you need to fill multiple feeders with) and calculate the ratios (how many of each seed, or how much feed for each feeder). (Daisy R1 and Brownie R4)
  • Make a feeder to use with the birdseed. (Brownie R3 and Junior R3)
  • Send home a worksheet for them to make a bar graph from data you get from birds (how much food they eat each day, how many birds you see, or how much food eaten at different locations) or bring some data to make a graph at the meeting. (Brownie R5)
  • Draw a map (place, neighborhood, place with sounds) and include landmarks and a legend (for sounds or objects) then choose a start and end point, draw lines from start to finish including all the stops. (Daisy R3)
  • Daisy, Brownie, and Junior levels earned!
  • Bonus: Daisies and Brownies earn the Design in Nature too!

J/C Create and Innovate

  • Cadette Business Creator can be paired with Junior Create and Innovate and Junior Business Jumpstart. Do the Create and Innovate Junior level, but on the useful project, make it a business prototype to fulfill the Entrepreneur badge requirements. Then follow the Shark Tank Meeting Plan for Juniors, but have them “Create a business plan for your idea” to add in their pitch for the Cadette level requirements. Ensure there are at least 5 people to give feedback for each Shark Tank presentation to hit all Cadette level requirements.

Create and Innovate C/S/A

There are no correlating C/S/A level badges for Create and Innovate art badges – unless you dive into the Entrepreneur badges. If you go that route, the useful project required in D/B/J can be their entrepreneur product and you can earn all level entrepreneur badges by working on those requirements in addition to the art project. At minimum, a plan like the J/C level combo above would be required. Adding in the idea for businesses, who are customers, and conducting market research for the Senior and Ambassador level requirements would also be needed.

Craft and Tinker

Badges that correlate from other levels

Note Retired Brownie Potter and Retired Junior Jeweler go beyond the requirements for the new Craft and Tinker badges. If you earned the retired badge but cannot find one, troops may use the new Craft and Tinker as a substitute and do not need to re-earn the Craft and Tinker badge.

It is not the same as the official badge, but a themed crafting badge has been made by Girls Love Scouting for other levels. (Girls Love Scouting announced on 05-08-2025 that production of artistry badges were going to be halted due to GSUSA legal actions.)

Craft and Tinker D/B/J Correlating Steps

Recommendation: Do a Junior level badge plan which will fulfill all Daisy. Add a project when learning what a user is, not just brainstorm. Then all requirements for Brownie and Junior will be complete.

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The Same

  • Daisy and Brownie Search for inventions or tools (place, around you, online, or a person who makes them). Junior requires Research (talk to a crafter, research, OR try one out) and pick out which craft (pottery, jewelry, textiles, OR baskets) to do.
  • All three levels Alter one of the crafts made (Daisy: change it one way, add a new feature; Brownie: theme it, personalize it, add a new feature; Juniors: how to simplify if you made it again OR sketch a change for a user specific request/adding a new feature or function).

The Differences

  • Daisy and Brownie Make something with a purpose (Daisy: solve a problem, make a gift; Brownie: play, wear, solve a problem). Juniors Learn what a user is and brainstorm user centered projects (interview users, reflect, OR research).
  • Brownies need to Make a second craft with a specific function, form, OR fit and Juniors Learn what Form, Fit, and Function are and create a user-centered project (something to entertain, simplify life, OR useful to a user).
  • Brownies Learn one aspect of the craft your choose (tools, measurement, materials), while Juniors Learn what tinkering is and practice (make a new tool, upcycle a material, OR add a new part to a project you make).

J/C Craft and Tinker

  • Choose the Cadette Book Artist or Woodworker and it should hit all the requirements of the Junior Craft and Tinker badge.

Craft and Tinker Difference between C/S/A Steps

Recommendation:

The Cadette level Book Artist can help with meeting the Collage Artist if you choose to do a Junk Journal as one of the Book projects. Otherwise the two completely different badges. Ambassador level does not have any correlating badges as their only art specific Photographer fits the Digital Arts more.

Digital Arts

Badges that correlate from other levels

Badges that correlate from other levels

  • Daisy – Fun Patch (no equivalent)
  • Brownie – Computer Expert – draw, search, play a game, and email
  • Junior – Entertainment Technology – make a game, animate art, special effects, and sound (Digital Photographer does not correlate)
  • Cadette – Netiquette – bad posts, mean comments, email etiquette, make social media profile (Digital Movie Maker does not correlate)
  • Senior – Website Designer – pick a topic, find a host, chose a format, create content, go live
  • Ambassador – Fun Patch (no equivalent)

Digital Arts D/B/J Correlating Steps

Recommendation:

  • Junior Entertainment Technology requires making a game while Brownie Computer Expert requires playing a game. One meeting could be done at a computer lab where they all work on an Hour of Code lesson to create a game and swap to try out another scout’s game. They can also use the computer lab to animate art for the Junior level and fulfill the Brownie level draw requirement. When looking into the sound and special effects, using an internet search to fulfill the Brownie level requirement can be done. A second meeting is recommended to do the “Use science from amusement park rides (roller coaster, catapult, OR centrifugal force water spinning).” Junior level requirement, but it can be paired with the Brownie level Home Scientist experiments as well.

J/C Digital Arts

  • Digital Photographer and Digital Movie Maker are two very different badges – but if you focus on Stop Motion Animation for the Digital Movie Maker, it can fulfill both badges. It may take two meetings – one for learning and taking pictures, one for using a computer lab to learn how to use the photos in Stop Motion Animation (or take new photos for the animation).
  • Entertainment Technology and Netiquette can be done together by simply adding the needed info Netiquette requires while doing the Entertainment Technology steps. Make a social media profile and talk about bad posts/mean comments and email etiquette before you make a game with an Hour of Code, animate art, and do an online search. You may want to do a separate meeting to focus on “Use science from amusement park rides (roller coaster, catapult, OR centrifugal force water spinning).” or just add a simplified activity at the end of the meeting.

Digital Arts Difference between C/S/A Steps

Option One

  • You can teach Cadettes how to Web Design while learning their Netiquette requirements. There is no Ambassador level equivalent.

Option Two

  • Photographer and Digital Movie Maker are two very different badges – but if you focus on Stop Motion Animation for the Digital Movie Maker, it can fulfill both badges. It will take two meetings – one for learning and taking pictures (especially the 5 action shots), one for using a computer lab to learn how to use the photos in Stop Motion Animation (or take new photos for the animation). There is no Senior level equivalent unless you add another meeting to hit the Web Design badge using the photos/videos they made – which we recommend adding Cadette level Netiquette as mentioned in Option One.

Outdoor Art

Badges that correlate from other levels

Outdoor Art D/B/J Correlating Steps

Recommendation: Do the Daisy Color exploration for the Brownie/Junior look at nature requirement, pick one sound/music activity, and do two outdoor crafts to hit the requirements for all three levels. Look at the Activity List for Outdoor Art for ideas on what projects and activities you can do.

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The Same

  • All three require exploring nature (Daisy: art or color race/hunt; Brownie: spot 3 things, OR write 5 observations; and Junior: create new creature adaptable to your area, OR compare indoor and outdoor performance).
  • All three require Make something nature inspired (Daisy: Leave no Trace drawing, OR play about taking care of nature; Brownie: art to wear, leaf fan, flower sachet, leaf rubbing, OR bark cast; Junior: galaxy shirt, whittle wood, OR clay impressions).
  • All three required exploring sound or music in nature (Daisy: make maraca OR sound hunt; Brownie: animal mimic card game, song creation, OR wind chime; Junior: sing in rounds, hike to song, human rain storm, OR nature’s symphony).
  • Brownie and Junior require Take photos (Brownie: pretend to shrink and take up close images, OR take them at different times of day, Junior: 3 different times of day, nature and non-nature structure, OR series of photos closer and closer until you can’t tell what it is anymore)
  • Brownie and Junior require Make art with nature (Brownie: Fairy House, box garden, seed starter, arrange rock/stone/gravel in design, washable paint on a window, OR tissue paper suncatcher; Junior: visit outdoor art, bird/bat/owl house, OR terrarium).

The Differences

  • Brownie and Junior have an option to talk to an artist that makes nature art instead of exploring nature. Junior has an additional requirement to create something inspired by their work if you chose that option.
  • Brownies have an option to draw or paint like it’s a photo (use magnifying glass for details, make a square with your fingers and capture what’s in the frame, draw your backyard and add something imaginative) instead of taking photos.

J/C Outdoor Art

Recommendation: See Meeting Outline below. Look at the Activity List for Outdoor Art for other ideas on what projects and activities you can do.

The requirements are the same in both levels, just with different recommended activities or projects. Pick the ones that fit your troop and do only one level plan.

  • Observe and record what you see in nature (Junior: create new creature adaptable to your area, OR compare indoor and outdoor performance; Cadette: compare indoor and outdoor performance, draw same scene in different season) OR talk to an artist that makes nature art and create something inspired by their work.
  • Make something nature inspired (Junior: galaxy shirt, whittle wood, OR clay impressions; Cadette: natural dyed shirt, clay art, OR plantable seed paper).
  • Use nature inspiration to make music or dance (Junior: sing in rounds, hike to song, human rain storm, OR nature’s symphony; Cadette: recreate nature sounds, playlist, rap/poem).
  • Take photos (Junior: 3 different times of day, nature and non-nature structure, OR series of photos closer and closer until you can’t tell what it is anymore; Cadette: pattern/texture close ups, hike journal, OR something blended into it’s surroundings)
  • Make art with nature (Junior: visit outdoor art, bird/bat/owl house, OR terrarium; Cadette: suncatcher, sundial, pinwheel, windsock, design something you can live in/provides shelter, design a miniature golf course in the snow, design—and grow—a square-foot garden).

Outdoor Art Difference between C/S/A Steps

Recommendation: See Meeting Outline below. Look at the Activity List for Outdoor Art for other ideas on what projects and activities you can do.

  • Observe and record what you see in nature (Cadette: compare indoor and outdoor performance, draw same scene in different seasons; Senior: three or more public artworks outdoors & sketch, exhibit of outdoor environmental art; Ambassador: create black-and-white piece of art indoors & then recreate it outdoors using colors you see, OR host art gallery outside) OR talk to an artist that makes nature art.
  • Make something nature inspired (Cadette: natural dyed shirt, clay art, OR plantable seed paper; Senior: jewelry, 5 things that don’t belong eco-art, OR woodcut relief, screen print shirt; Ambassador: color change jewelry, kite, solar balloon, OR lashing art).
  • Use nature inspiration to make music or dance (Cadette: recreate nature sounds, playlist, OR rap/poem; Senior: Record natural sounds and human-made ones, DIY band for an outdoor performance, OR teach younger girls three camp songs about nature; Ambassador: soundtrack for a specific walk/hike, record outdoor sounds & mix and layer to create a song, OR make instruments with nature).
  • Take photos (Cadette: pattern/texture close ups, hike journal, OR something blended into it’s surroundings; Senior: time-lapse project, play with filers/modes, shoot panoramic, OR outdoor music video; Ambassador: presentation of photos taken of a space over a few days/weeks, create a documentary film or photo series about an issue, OR take pictures outdoors from unusual perspectives)
  • Make art with nature (Cadette: suncatcher, sundial, pinwheel, windsock, design something you can live in/provides shelter, design a miniature golf course in the snow, OR design—and grow—a square-foot garden; Senior: outdoor maze/labyrinth, lighting for an outdoor space, light show, OR nature-based art mural for the outdoors; Ambassador: design for a landscape, geo-art, OR sketch play area design/make 3D model).

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