The Badge Archive

2011 Healthy Living Badges – Multi Level

See also Self Care Themed Multi-level GSUSA 2011 badges.

Yes – 2011 Is the current GSUSA badge

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. We recommend a Fun Patch in that case.

Badges with correlating requirements means you can do an activity that counts towards different badges in the different levels.

Health and Wellness

Badges that correlate from other levels

D/B Correlating Steps

Recommendation:

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The Same

  • Both levels require learning about a animal (Daisy Animal Observer: Pick an animal and observe them in person OR online to learn more about them AND Daisy Animal Observer: Mimic animals by either playing camouflage hide and seek OR animal charades; Brownie Pet: Learn how three different kinds of pets communicate their feelings).
  • Both levels require learning about caring for animals (Daisy 3 Cheers Red Robin Award: Learn how to take care of animals by yourself; Brownie Pet: Learn about 3 pets possible health issues and how you would keep it healthy OR 3 pets grooming and try grooming OR take a dog on an exercise walk for one week AND Make a bed/sleep nook for a pet OR take care of a pet cage/tank/litter box for 2 weeks OR muck out a horse stall 3 times.).
  • Both level require learning about taking care of yourself (Daisy 3 Cheers Birdbath Award: Learn about yourself and how to take care of yourself; Brownie My Best Self: Record something about yourself (hair/eye color, favorites, what makes you feel happy/hungry/tired/nervous/sad/angry/thirsty, how are you unique) and share AND Brownie My Best Self: Learn a body fact (why tummies might hurt, why are temps high/low, how does the body make it’s own bandages)).

The Differences

  • Daisy 3 Cheers Tula Award: Plan and do a Take Action Project (TAP).
  • Daisy Animal Observer: Look for animal signs either by looking for animal tracks outdoors OR looking up animal habitats.
  • Brownie Pet: Learn what 3 different pets costs and how much space, food, and human interaction it needs.
  • Brownie Pet: Feed your pet for two weeks OR feed someone’s pet for one week OR find out how much it costs to feed two different pets for one month.
  • Brownie My Best Self: Try a new healthy habit (3 new foods, 3 types of exercises, a week of no sweetened soda/juice).
  • Brownie My Best Self: Find one way to create happiness when feeling down (happy box, track feelings, movement for 5 minutes).
  • Brownie My Best Self: Meet a someone trained in healthcare (doctor, dentist, optometrist, nurse, counselor, EMT, firefighter).

D/B/J Correlating Steps

Recommendation:

  • Follow D/B Animal Meeting Plan (To earn Animal Observer, Pets badge, and one part of the 3 Cheers Journey).
  • Then Follow the Brownie Level My Best Self Basic Meeting Plan (To earn My Best Self and part two of the 3 Cheers Journey) AND challenge them to do 2 things in the next two weeks: (1) help someone else each time you are stressed for two weeks (2) 30-min aerobics three times a week. You can alter the Happiness Tracker to help them keep track.
  • Next do a Family Fitness Day. Invite their families to the meeting. Check back in on how their two week challenges went. Use the USDA Food Pyramid to do an activity (food-label detective, brainstorm healthy foods in each category, OR chose five nutrients and hunt in a store/kitchen for foods that provide the highest percent of those nutrients) with their families involved in the activity. Then do some games they voted for in a previous meeting to get the scouts and their families active. You can use any of the movement Ice Breaker Games for ideas.
  • Finally, do a Take Action Project (TAP) to complete the 3 Cheers Journey. You can do a Brownie and Junior level journey that has not Daisy level equivalent (like Brownie A World of Girls and Junior Agent of Change) and count the TAP done for 3 Cheers for those Brownie/Junior level journey.
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The Same

  • All three require learning about taking care of yourself (Daisy 3 Cheers Birdbath Award: Learn about yourself and how to take care of yourself; Brownie My Best Self: Record something about yourself (hair/eye color, favorites, what makes you feel happy/hungry/tired/nervous/sad/angry/thirsty, how are you unique) and share AND Brownie My Best Self: Learn a body fact (why tummies might hurt, why are temps high/low, how does the body make it’s own bandages); Junior: Learn how not all medical advice is truthful and how to find the true facts (review three medical answers to decide which is legit, OR investigate a health advertisement to see if the facts are right) OR speak to a health professional about where to find correct advice and their own top 10 tips.).
  • Only Daisy and Brownie levels require learning about a animal (Daisy Animal Observer: Pick an animal and observe them in person OR online to learn more about them AND Daisy Animal Observer: Mimic animals by either playing camouflage hide and seek OR animal charades; Brownie Pet: Learn how three different kinds of pets communicate their feelings).
  • Only Daisy and Brownie levels require learning about caring for animals (Daisy 3 Cheers Red Robin Award: Learn how to take care of animals by yourself; Brownie Pet: Learn about 3 pets possible health issues and how you would keep it healthy OR 3 pets grooming and try grooming OR take a dog on an exercise walk for one week AND Make a bed/sleep nook for a pet OR take care of a pet cage/tank/litter box for 2 weeks OR muck out a horse stall 3 times.).
  • Only Brownie and Junior levels require de-stressing and creating happiness (Brownie My Best Self: Find one way to create happiness when feeling down (happy box, track feelings, movement for 5 minutes); Junior: Perform one lowering stress activity (write in a diary for one week, help someone else each time you are stressed for two weeks, OR spend 15 minutes in a designated spot with a bag of favorite things when you need a break for two weeks) AND compare your stress before you started and after you performed it).
  • Only Brownie and Junior need to create healthy habits (Brownie My Best Self: Try a new healthy habit (3 new foods, 3 types of exercises, a week of no sweetened soda/juice); Junior: Follow a fitness plan (30-min aerobics three times a week, walk 10,000 steps a day, OR change one hour of TV time to one hour of exercise three times a week) for two weeks.)

The Differences

  • Daisy 3 Cheers Tula Award: Plan and do a Take Action Project (TAP).
  • Daisy Animal Observer: Look for animal signs either by looking for animal tracks outdoors OR looking up animal habitats.
  • Brownie Pet: Learn what 3 different pets costs and how much space, food, and human interaction it needs.
  • Brownie Pet: Feed your pet for two weeks OR feed someone’s pet for one week OR find out how much it costs to feed two different pets for one month.
  • Brownie My Best Self: Meet a someone trained in healthcare (doctor, dentist, optometrist, nurse, counselor, EMT, firefighter).
  • Junior: Follow a fitness plan (30-min aerobics three times a week, walk 10,000 steps a day, OR change one hour of TV time to one hour of exercise three times a week) for two weeks.
  • Junior: Use the USDA Food Pyramid to do an activity (food-label detective, brainstorm healthy foods in each category, OR chose five nutrients and hunt in a store/kitchen for foods that provide the highest percent of those nutrients).
  • Junior: Get your family involved in one health-centered challenge (cook a healthy dinner, do a healthy activity like a bike ride/hike/game to do chores, OR hold a family meeting where everyone can talk to each other about the good and bad).

C/S/A Combinations

Summary

  • These are separate badges, just do them and award a fun patch for the other levels. Otherwise you need to add Journeys into the mix to cover giving each level some kind of official badge/journey/award.
  • Cadette is a lot of learning. It’s fun if you pair it with taste testing foods that you talk about in regards to energy, skin, sleep, and blood sugar.
  • Senior is focused more on the specific issues women face due to biological factors. If you combine it with a Journey like GIRLtopia (where you look at issues women face in the world and dream of a utopia), it can work out well.
  • Since Seniors Women’s Health also has you look at beauty advertisements, add in the Cadette level MEdia Journey. Then you can do a combined TAP that will count for each level’s Journey.
  • Ambassador does not have a health badge, but if doing the GIRLtopia and MEdia Journey’s, add in Ambassador Bliss Journey. GIRLtopia is about dreaming up a utopia, and Bliss is all about Dreams and making them happen.

Recommendation if you want to combine C/S/A levels:

  • Do a Taste Testing day where you learn all the information you need for the Cadette Eating for You badge, while voting and making plans for the Journeys. Easiest way to combine those journeys is to get a panel of female professionals you can ask about the GIRLtopia questions and interview them for dreams in the Bliss requirements. Scouts can think of who to ask to come as a guest speaker, make a menu for a snack and chat session.
  • Follow through on the plans the scouts made for the Snack and Chat session. After letting the guest speakers go home, take a moment during the clean up to discuss their feelings on how it went and what they like and didn’t like.
  • Do a new meeting to hit the Cadette MEdia requirements but make sure the advertisements you analyze fit the requirements for the Senior Women’s Health.
  • To finish off, Ambassadors still need to define their own values of what is important to them, explore their passions and dreams, and connect those to the values that are important to them. Seniors still need to create an art piece to reflect on what they believe is an ideal world. Have an art session to create an art piece of some kind and do an exercise like one leader thought of “We’d probably do a sticky note wall (a wall section for each scout, not a combined one). I think a column for their values, a column for their passions, and a column for their dreams would do it. Then try and match them up. They’d end the activity by writing down a chart like the one in the Girl’s Guide to match their passions with dream they want to obtain that align with their important values. They’d only write down the ones important to them, not the wall of sticky notes I’d encourage them to make. My scouts love post-it notes for some weird reason, so I’m sure they’ll have hundred of those things up for each scout.”
  • Finally, do a TAP to finish off all three Journeys.
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Cadette Eating For You

  • Cadette: Do one activity to know the USDA’s MyPlate food guidance system (Eat by color for two weeks, log your food for one week, OR write a week’s worth of meals).
  • Cadette: Learn how food and water affect your skin condition AND do one activity (track your water intake for one week, make a list of 10 antioxidant-rich foods and add 4 into your diet, OR do a scavenger hunt for food that has selenium, essential fatty acids, healthy oils, and/or vitamin A AND add three into your diet).
  • Cadette: Learn about the cortisol cycle and how caffeine and sugar affect it AND do one activity about food (substitute three foods high in sugar, fat, or salt in your diet, find a list of ingredients that mean sugar without saying the word sugar AND find several items that have them, OR learn about what food additives/chemicals add to anxiety and stress AND make a plan to substitute the ones you eat).
  • Cadette: Learn how what and when you eat can affect your sleep cycle AND do one activity (make an art piece to show foods that help you sleep and those that keep you awake, track the time you eat between dinner and bed for two weeks while keeping the same sleep time, OR learn about REM and avoid drinking three hours before bed for four nights).
  • Cadette: Learn the affects blood sugar has and how eating and exercise affect it AND do one activity (poll friends/family at least 5 questions, try a healthy snack for a week to see if they help energy, OR make a chart or blog of 5 different fruits and how the fiber and vitamins help energy).

Senior Women’s Health

  • Senior: Know what tests that are available (i.e. blood pressure, a mammogram , Pap smear, etc.) for women to help us manage our good health throughout our lives (find five steps for one aspect, talk to a professional, OR create a chart of tests from puberty to menopause).
  • Senior: Explore (how to prevent issues, history over 20 year time period, OR beauty from other cultures) one fad (internal like diets, cosmetic like hair die, OR habits like wearing high heels) AND research OR talk to a professional about it.
  • Senior: Explore mental health issues (track moods for two weeks, three studies on an aspect of healthy relationships, interview a medical expert on a mental health topic, OR read three articles on a mental health topic).
  • Senior: Learn (research, statistics, health care expert, OR first hand survivor or witness) the causes, consequences, and possible preventive measures and treatments of a health issue (global OR local).
  • Senior: Create a way to share one area you learned about (create a public service announcement, host a health forum with guest speakers, OR create a program with exercise, diet, and tips AND make a brochure, website, exhibit/poster display, OR slide presentation).

First Aid

Badges that correlate from other levels

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

D/B/J Combinations

Summary

  • The three badges have only a few requirements that overlap. A lot of the required learning for each level is different and will require a long time of talking to go over – or the troop can do interactive stations to cover them all over several meetings.

Recommendation:

  • Have the Troop First Aider or a guest speaker go over the required learning information. If you are trying to earn the First Aid badge in a single meeting there is no time to do any interactive stations. It will be a large amount of talking. You may need to break it up into smaller portions through the meeting as Daisies and younger Brownies will not be able to sit long enough to go over all the information in a single lecture. Use the Stop, Drop, and Role, the 911 role play, and the making of a kit to break up the long talk sessions.
  • Quickly go over Stop, Drop, and Roll and the Check-Call-Care methods for Daisy and Junior levels.
  • Do a role-play of 911 calls where they must know their name, their parent’s name, and either their phone number of address for the Daisy and Brownie requirements.
  • Go over the troop first aid kit, but give each scout a small bag or box that can be put in their backpack for mini-emergencies. It can be just some bandages at a minimum as scouts of this age are NOT supposed to use anything on peers due to possible allergic reactions. Make sure if triple antibiotic cream or other items are in their kit the scouts know it CANNOT be shared.
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Basic Concepts that Must be Covered

  • Daisy: Learn “Stop, Drop, and Roll” method of putting out a fire.
  • Junior: Make (poster, skit, OR video) something to explain Check-Call-Care and share it (post it, perform it, OR show it) with others (friends/family, school, OR public library).

911 Role-Play

  • Daisy: Learn who to talk to for emergencies and know your name, parent’s name, and your phone number or address.
  • Brownie: Role play calling 911 in various scenarios OR talk with police officer or firefighter about importance of 911.

First Aid Kits

  • Brownie: Make a first aid kit (for personal use, troop use, or donate one).
  • Junior: Make a small first kit that you can use away from home (for backpack, in car glove box, sports locker, OR relative’s home) to deal with injuries that might happen on a hike, bike ride, or on your way to school.

First Aid that Must Be Learned

Only Brownies are required to talk to a someone in healthcare (doctor, nurse, policeman, firefighter) or visit a health location (clinic, police station, fire station). At a minimum, the CPR Certified Troop First Aider will count for this requirement.

  • Daisy: Learn what to do if someone is chocking.
  • Brownie: Have a healthcare professional (doctor, nurse, red cross instructor, EMT) teach how to treat minor injuries (cut, scrape, bruise, or insect bite).
  • Brownie: Learn how to identify local dangerous plants, animals, and insects AND how to treat bug bite/bee sting, sunburn, or poison oak/ivy rash.
  • Junior: Find out what you can do to help someone who is sick or injured until professionals arrive by talking to a first responder (EMT, Firefighter, OR tour emergency room/hospital/urgent care).
  • Junior: Learn about anaphylaxis, asthma attacks, choking, and diabetic emergencies (talk to medical professional, research and make poster, OR tour emergency room/hospital/urgent care).
  • Junior: Find out how to care for people who have common illnesses such as a cold, a fever, or the flu and how to keep yourself safe while doing so (role-play, visit medical clinic, OR interview people and make a list).

C/S/A Combinations

Summary

  • These are separate badges, but all can be earned by taking a First Aid/CPR Course. A standard certification course should cover all the various topics across all three levels. A CPR certification needs to be renewed every two years – so just renew it every two years and award the First Aid badge when they do.
  • Seniors require teaching other, so ADD helping a D/B/J earn their First Aid badge OR count helping any Cadette in the C/S/A troop earn their First Aid badge as part of that requirement.

Recommendation without a First Aid/CPR Course C/S/A levels:

  • Go through the checklist (see the drop down of “What to Cover”) of all the information needed for each level
  • Seniors require teaching other, so ADD helping a D/B/J earn their First Aid badge OR count helping any Cadette in the C/S/A troop earn their First Aid badge as part of that requirement.
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Basic Concepts that Must be Covered

  • Cadette: Learn how to use different pieces of a first aid kit
  • Cadette: Learn the conscious choking response and how to handle choking emergencies
  • Cadette: Learn how to treat musculoskeletal injuries (broken bone, pulled muscle, dislocated joint, AND sprain) in the outdoors
  • Cadette: Learn signs and symptoms of different types of seizures AND how to help someone having them
  • Cadette: Learn the signs of heat stroke, frostbite, hypothermia, and hyperthermia AND how to treat them
  • Senior: Learn how to handle head, neck, and spinal injuries
  • Senior: Learn how to make splints from everyday objects AND practice trying one method out.
  • Senior: Learn to recognize the warning signs of drug overdose and alcohol poisoning AND how to care for the person
  • Senior: Learn how to identify and care for life-threatening bleeding
  • Ambassador: If talking to a professional EMT or Nurse – Learn about the worst-case scenarios you could encounter AND learn how to handle them OR If talking to Troop First Aider – watch movie/read a book about outdoor adventure AND discuss how they coped with emergencies and how it applies to real life
  • Ambassador: Interview someone (rescue pilot, park ranger, or member of a wilderness search-and-rescue squad or ski patrol, firefighter, EMT, or member of a local emergency response unit, OR combat medic or member of a military medical unit) about the training and education needed for extreme conditions, OR Watch a recorded interview.
  • Ambassador: Research wilderness emergencies AND make a checklist plan.
  • Ambassador: Learn how to get help in places it’s hard to communicate from
  • Ambassador: Learn about real-life wilderness emergency examples (interview, book/movie, or 5 articles).

Safety Award Pins

Badges that correlate from other levels

The Same

  • They are about safe and wellness.

The Differences

  • All require different things. Some levels can be done in one meeting together if you only briefly touch on a few requirements. Most cannot. See Directions from GSofME – Archived Copy of PDF for more details on requirements.

Recommendation:

  • Daisy Safety Pin goes well with Brownie First Aid badge. Otherwise, do these separately and give the other levels a fun patch.

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For More Fun Ideas and Plans

for Daisy, Brownie, and Junior Scouts

Join the Girl Scout Daisy, Brownie, and Junior Leader Help Facebook Group
(Not an official GSUSA Group)

This is a supportive Facebook community for Daisy, Brownie, and Junior Girl Scout leaders. Whether you’re seeking advice, fresh ideas, or meeting plans, you’re in the right place! Let’s inspire each other, share our experiences, and make every troop meeting a memorable adventure.

for Cadette, Senior, and Ambassador Scouts

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This is a supportive community for Cadette, Senior, and Ambassador Girl Scout leaders. This group offers solutions to keep older scouts engaged in scouting amidst their busy lives. Share strategies, tackle challenges, and exchange ideas for fun, meaningful activities that resonate with teens and build lasting connections.

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