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:
- Printout of Courageous and Strong Award for each scout.
- Troop coloring supplies (markers, crayons, or colored pencils)
- Printout of lyrics for at least three repeat and answer songs. (Note to Leaders – we recommend practicing these before the meeting so you know the tunes to sing them by.)
- (Optional) Printout about Malala Yousafzai
(Troops with a larger budget may want to do Courage Cards instead of doing the Courageous and Strong Award.)
Malala Yousafzai
Info Needed: Someone who has shown they are Courageous and Strong is Malala Yousafzai. She lived in Pakistan when she was 11 and the country stopped allowing girls go to school. It was dangerous to speak against the government, but Malala didn’t let that stop her. She wrote stories about her life using a fake name. At age 16, she spoke at the United Nations, a group that helps keep the world fair and peaceful. By age 17, she earned many prizes and awards for her work at building her own organization that helps girls around the world go to school.
(Requirement 1 Earned)
Courageous and Strong Award
Info Needed: There are a lot of people that show they are courageous and strong – even people you know!
Action Needed: Create an award for someone you know is courageous and strong.
(Requirement 2 Earned)
Try New Songs
Fun Activity: Try at least three repeat and answer songs songs. Take turns being the leader (three scouts can help the leader lead the song at a time).
(Requirement 3 Earned)
Meeting End
Scouts can continue to try new songs and switch off being the leader until it’s time to go home. Challenge them to make their own repeat and answer song with movements and help them make a new song.
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 