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:
- Pipe cleaners – 2-3 for each scout
- A story book about Respect or Rules (Choose one from the options in the Activity List, We recommend “Library Lion” by Michelle Knudsen)
- (Optional) A box of random costume pieces or props.
(Troops with a larger budget may want to buy each scout a pair of toy glass frames you can decorate.)
Respectacles
Information Needed: Respecting Authority also means respecting the rules. We have rules everywhere we go. At home, at school, an in our town/city and country.
Action Needed: Each scout uses pipe cleaners to make glasses. Glasses used to be called spectacles. These are now Respectacles.
Read a story about respect or rules and each time they hear the characters showing respect and following the rules, they put on their respectacles. When the characters are disrespectful and break the rules, they take off their respectacles.
(Requirement 1 Earned)
Note to Leaders – For detailed instructions on how to make pipe cleaner glasses see the Show me your respectables activity by GSRV.
Be an Authority
Fun Activity: Give each scout a different authority figure and let them act like one to the other scouts in the troop. Continue until each scout has a chance to be an authority figure.
(Optional) Use a box of random costume pieces or props.
(Requirement 3 Earned)
Action Time
Information Needed: At school you follow rules, not only in the classroom, but when you are playing.
Action Needed: Play a game that requires rules: Simon Says, Mother, May I, Red Light, Green Light, or Follow the Leader
(Requirement 2 Earned)
Meeting End
Scouts can continue playing yard games 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 