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(Retired Flower Friends Story)

Released in 2011 as original requirements using the Flower Friend Stories and retired in 2022.
Replaced by the Petal Pack.
The Daisy Girl’s Guide to Girl Scouting page has the information on when all badges were released.

NOTE – Requirements for all Petals changed in the summer of 2022. Most resources available use the retired requirements. The old requirements can still be used to earn the petals, but GSUSA prefers if new requirements are used.

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How to Earn

Ways to earn as a Troop or an Individual

Our Summary of the GSUSA booklet activity choices

All Flower Friend petals are technically earned by

1. Answer questions about the flower story
2. Learn about the line of the law the petal represents.
3. Practicing the line of the law

The original petal program was designed for kindergarteners. It is perfect for kindergarten aged scouts. Scouts arrive, you recite the promise and law and do a wiggle song. Have a quick story time and talk about it and go straight into something active that relates to the law of the petal. Then you make sure to do a second activity that helps them practice it, or is a concrete way to remind them at home to practice it so they can report back next meeting. By then an hour is done and scouts are happy and they go home. Sometimes you throw a snack in there depending on what time of day you meet.

And doing all the petals and a financial literacy leaf and a cookie business leaf fills up an entire school year of twice a month meetings. Sometimes you throw in world thinking day and a Daisy Journey (Welcome Flower Garden is a good match for the petals as you just review the law they just learned about to earn one of the three parts of it).

The new 2022 requirements are different and require you to do three things to learn more about the line of the law and practice it. No stories needed, but three total activities instead of two.

Multi-Level Matches

Badges that correlate from other levels

Petal requirements focus on the learning about the law aspect and practicing it. Therefore, there are no direct matches to badges in other levels as you can simply “theme” a badge in a different level to the Girl Scout Law theme of the petal Daisies are earning.

• Promise Center – Girl Scout Promise (Amazing Daisy – Retired 2011)
  Often done with GS Way badge of various levels.
• Petal – Honest and Fair (Lupe – Retired 2011)
  Anything that can show being fair or can tie into a lesson of honesty.
• Petal – Friendly and Helpful (Sunny – Retired 2011)
  Anything with a service aspect or being nice.
• Petal – Considerate and Caring (Zinni – Retired 2011)
  Anything showing kindness.
• Petal – Courageous and Strong (Tula – Retired 2011)
  Anything that takes courage to do – even if it’s just trying something new.
• Petal – Responsible for What I Say and Do (Mari – Retired 2011)
  Anything where they learn there are consequences.
• Petal – Respect Myself and Others (Gloria – Retired 2011)
  Anything where they learn about themselves and others.
• Petal – Respect Authority (Gerri – Retired 2011)
  Any meeting where there is someone like a guest speaker they need to learn to respect.
• Petal – Use Resources Wisely (Clover – Retired 2011)
  Anything where they reuse and item something to make something.
• Petal – Make the World a Better Place (Rosie – Retired 2011)
  Anything where they help, give service, or clean up a meeting area.
• Petal – Be a Sister to Every Girl Scout (Vi – Retired 2011)
  Anything where treating each other nicely comes into play.

For example if a multi level was doing Trail Adventure for all levels, but also wanted to earn the petals with the badge, you could do several things:

• Connect hiking with taking care of your body (stretching, water, etc.) – counts towards Respect Myself & Others
• Leave No Trace (depending on how you do it) – counts towards Responsible for what I say and Do, Respect myself and others, Use Resources Wisely, or Make the World a Better Place.
• Challenge to turn over a rock and see what lives underneath – counts towards Courageous and Strong
• Lead the way part of the trail – counts towards Courageous and Strong
• Learning and Practicing the Buddy System on the hike – counts towards Sister to Every Girl Scout, Responsible for What I Say and Do, or Courteous and Kind

These are simply suggestions and may take some creativity and extra steps to earn all the badges in various levels.

A Multi-Level Troop will need to do extra steps when earning different badges across levels. It depends on how many requirements overlap. Some will only have one or two matching requirements.

GSUSA has an Award Log for each level with a comparison table for all badges in similar themes. Not all badges in the same theme have correlating requirements – you basically have to earn two separate badges. Badges with correlating requirements means you can do an activity that counts towards different badges in the different levels.

Uniform Apron and Vest

Location and placement of badge

Petal Pack should go where #8 is stated on the GSUSA Uniform Guide.

There is an official order on the colors, but it is not strictly enforced, so if you mix up the colors from the official petal pack color wheel, do not be distressed. The image on the GSUSA Shop is the official order of colors.

Note – New leaders and parents need to be aware that the leaves under the petals on all uniform guides have been retired (Cookie Business leaves in summer of 2021 and Financial Literacy leaves in summer of 2022). Their replacements are the flower shaped badges. You no longer need to save room for the leaves when placing petals, but you can use that space for extra flower shaped badges.

Leaves can still be earned and worn but finding leaf badges is difficult to do since GSUSA is no longer making them and only sold until their current stock ran out.

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