Requirements
Choose one in each requirement.
Note to Leaders – This badge is all about looking at the 3 R’s (Recycle, Reduce, Reuse)
Reduce using something
Activities
- Energy Quiz
- Walk around the meeting room or house and find ways you can reduce energy use
Crafts
- Decorate reusable water bottles to encourage the girls to use reusable instead of disposable plastic
Read
- Read “The Little Green Jacket” by Jodi Dee
Use something a second time in a new way
Activities
- Make recycled paper
- New Used Ideas
Craft
- Newspaper Origami
- Make a sit upon from old vinyl tablecloths and newspapers. Sew or use duct tape to close
- Girlguiding UK Bowled Over Activity
- Reuse old posters or school posterboard. Those back sides can work well for your cookie signs!
- Recycling crafts
- Make a Bird Feeder from Reusable Materials
- reusable bags from T-shirts
- Ukulele from a plastic bottle
- jump rope from plastic grocery bags
- hanging planter from an old bottle
- upcycled ornaments
- empty cookie cases or cereal boxes into magazine or book holders
- recycled cardboard to create a front and back cover for a journal which they decorate with scrap paper and magazine pictures
- wind chimes from materials that would otherwise be thrown away
- bee house with recyclable materials
- Plan a leftover meal from another meal
Stories
- Read “Something from Nothing” by Phoebe Gilman
- Read “I Had a Favorite Dress” by Boni Ashburn
Research recycling
Activities
- Recycling Words to Know
- Learn what you can and cannot recycle in your town
- Recycle sort
- Recycling Challenge Race OR Recycling Relay Race
- Learn about worm composting through your local nature center or garden programs
- Play this “Let’s Recycle” sorting game. (Free printable)
Crafts
Stories
- Watch All About Garbage & Recycling
- Read “The Adventures of a Plastic Bottle: A Story About Recycling” by Alison Inches
Field Trips
Make sure all requirements are met when going or have a pre-field trip meeting to hit the requirements.
- Visit a local garden or farmer’s market. Ask about how the gardener or farmer uses resources wisely to grow plants. Find out what they do if they have too many vegetables to eat or sell
- Visit a local recycling center or learn about rain barrels from your local farm bureau
Guest Speakers
Make sure all requirements are met when there are there or have a meeting before or after the guest speaker to hit the requirements.
- Artist that uses recyclable materials
- Worker at recycling center
- Farmer/Gardener that uses compost
For pre-planned meeting plans by others – Go back to the Petal Page
- GSUSA Volunteer Toolkit (VTK) has 1 free meeting plan for each petal – No links available. This is only accessible through MyGS log-in on Council’s website for troop leaders
- Mtg: Use Resources Wisely: Composting OR Save natural resources, Give item new use OR make newspaper art, AND Make recycling bin craft OR Recycling field trip
Other Plans and Lists
Daisy Petals – Basic Meeting Plans
(Troops who want a basic, low cost meeting plan)
- Promise Center Basic Meeting Plan
- Honest and Fair Basic Meeting Plan
- Friendly and Helpful Basic Meeting Plan
- Considerate and Caring Basic Meeting Plan
- Courageous and Strong Basic Meeting Plan
- Responsible for What I Say and Do Basic Meeting Plan
- Respect Myself and Others Basic Meeting Plan
- Respect Authority Basic Meeting Plan
- Use Resources Wisely Basic Meeting Plan
- Make the World a Better Place Basic Meeting Plan
- Be a Sister to Every Girl Scout Basic Meeting Plan
Daisy Petals – Activity Lists
(Troops who want to pick their own activities and make their own meeting plan)
- Honest and Fair Activity List
- Friendly and Helpful Activity List
- Considerate and Caring Activity List
- Courageous and Strong Activity List
- Responsible for What I Say and Do Activity List
- Respect Myself and Others Activity List
- Respect Authority Activity List
- Use Resources Wisely Activity List
- Make the World a Better Place Activity List
- Be a Sister to Every Girl Scout Activity List
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