Basic Meeting Plans are designed to have minimal supplies and still hit the GSUSA Requirements. Most meetings can be done in a 90 minute time frame.
Items needed:
- Pen/Pencil for each scout
- Paper for each scout (Optional, Poster paper for each scout)
- Troop coloring supplies (markers, crayons, or colored pencils)
- A device that can connect to the internet to allow them to browse possible figures and look up quotes. Possible Figures can be found:
Review the Law
Information Needed: Review the VTK Girl Scout Promise and Law.
Action Needed: Pick one of the 10 lines of the Girl Scout Law to focus on.
(Requirement 1 Earned)
Pick a Role Model
Action Needed: Look a the list of Historical Figures (Or our new Famous Women by Law Line list) and pick a female role model that is a good example of the Law line the scouts voted on.
Information Needed: Read the biography on the Historical Figure chosen to learn more about their life and what they did that was a good example of the Law line the scouts voted on.
(Requirement 2 Earned)
Pick a Three Quotes
Action Needed: Read through a list of quotes and find three that match your role model and law line.
(Requirement 3 Earned)
Make Something
Action Needed: Make a poster or other craft that shows the law of the line, a small bit about your chosen role model, and the three quotes that resonated with you the most.
(Requirement 4 Earned)
Post it Somewhere You’ll See It
Action Needed: Place your artwork in a place you will see it every day over the next year. It is to remind you of your goal to work on that law line for the year and practice it with the help of the role model and quotes you picked out.
(Requirement 5 Earned)
Meeting End
Scouts can add decorations and embellish their artwork, show and tell with others, or make a new artwork until it’s time to go home.
General Notes
Note to Leaders – No Basic Plan compiled by The Badge Archive will earn multiple badges in one level. Part of being budget friendly is not costing more than the price of one official GSUSA badge per meeting.
Some badges will take two meetings to finish. This helps scouts enjoy activities and keeps the troop budget in mind by only needing one GSUSA badge for every two meetings. Troops may choose to get a fun patch for one of the meetings if scouts want a badge/patch for every meeting. Scouts can earn the fun patch if they only attend one meeting and get a fun patch and the official badge if they go to both.
The Badge Archive 