The Badge Archive

GS Traditions & History

Badges celebrating Girl Scout heritage, sisterhood, and special GS events. Includes Juliette Gordon Low, Girl Scout Birthday, historical GS themes, and troop traditions.

  • GSUSA – Badge Mentality

    GSUSA – Badge Mentality

    “Why does everyone have to have a badge for every single thing the girls do?” By looking at how badges evolved over time, it is easy to see why constant badge earning became the common mentality.

  • 2011 – My First Cookie Business

    2011 – My First Cookie Business

    Cookie flavors, sales goals, and talking to customers.

  • What Badges Are

    What Badges Are

    Badges, belt-loops, adventures, patches, pins, emblems, certificates, levels, prizes, trinkets. We, at The Badge Archive, are going to call all badge-type awards “Badges” throughout the site from here on out to keep confusion down.