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Submitted by Arya Thomson
Pikes Peak
Fountain
Arya used her Brownie Computer Expert badge skills to design a flyer to pass out to her classmates and teacher. Now, they can order on her digital site and receive some contactless cookie love. Arya used Adobe Spark and a bank of graphics from GSCO to create a design that was all her own. She even added a “love yourself” message on the bottom.
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Submitted by Marie Merrill-Exton
Southwestern CO
Pagosa Springs
Sage, a Brownie from Pagosa Springs, celebrated Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Girl Scouts of Colorado’s Day of Service by doing community service in her community, like picking up trash.
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Submitted by Girl Scouts of Colorado Global Action Team
World Thinking Day Theme – Peacebuilding
Stand Together for Peace. World Thinking Day brings more than ten million Girl Guides and Girl Scouts together this year to stand together around the world to call for and create peace; in our lives and in the world.
The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS), along with Girl Scouts of the USA and the other WAGGGS member organizations, have celebrated World Thinking Day since 1926. That’s when delegates from around the globe met at Camp Edith Macy—now called Edith Macy Conference Center—in New York and agreed that February 22 would now be known as a special day for Girl Guides and Girl Scouts worldwide.
While it may feel that today, peacebuilding is more relevant and necessary than any other time, peacebuilding has been at the heart of Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting for the last 100 years. Peacebuilding includes each and every one of us and comes about in so many different and meaningful ways if done with intention and authenticity.
There are three strands to this year’s peacebuilding theme:
This year, the GSCO Global Action Team encourages you to complete at least two activities from the free downloadable activity pack. If you’re feeling inspired, consider completing the World Thinking Day badge (requirements at bottom of WTD page). There are also additional World Thinking Day activity downloads on this GSUSA page.
Finally, if you would like to do the World Thinking Day activities together with girls from around the world, you can sign up for a World Thinking Day Session with WAGGGS on February 20, 21, or 22, 2021. View all and register here.
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Submitted by Brownie and Daisy Troop 45275
Pikes Peak
Fountain
Our Brownies and Daisies got together on Zoom to create dog biscuits and cat toys for the SPCA. The girls worked on their overhand knots with felt and made yummy treats for the dogs!
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Submitted by Amber Biviano
Metro Denver
Parker
Genevieve and Mackenzie collected winter gloves/socks, snacks, and toiletries to support a local cafe’s efforts to feed and provide essentials for those experiencing homelessness in our community throughout the winter.
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Submitted by Stephanie Rosch
Metro Denver
Westminster
Troop 61359 spent some time on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day cleaning up the local streets! After cleaning, they wrote some awesome messages in chalk to make neighbors smile while out and about! Girls in this fabulous troop won’t let anything stop them from helping others and leading the way.
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Submitted by Josephine Hamm
Metro Denver
Englewood
Several of our girls spent their Monday afternoon celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. Day by spreading love in our community. Girls from our troop went out and took pride in their community by picking up trash. They practiced social distancing by dividing and conquering. Girls proudly wore their Girl Scout Junior vests, face masks, and disposable gloves, as well as carried trash bags. One of our Juniors headed to Cottonwood Creek Elementary School with her younger Daisy sister and led her in a trash pick-up effort. She let her younger sister get the bigger “better” pieces of trash that had blown around the school yard. Another Junior took a nice hike with her younger brother to pickup trash around the Cherry Creek Reservoir. Thankfully, they didn’t find much trash. Another Junior picked up cigarette butts and trash in her neighborhood common area. At the end, the girls took pride in knowing they did their small part to make their community better.
Our girls showed their Girl Scout spirit and definitely exude the Girl Scout Law. While other kids were out playing, our girls took time to make a difference in their community and a couple even mentored their younger siblings. There is nothing glamorous about picking up trash, but they felt a great sense of accomplishment when they were done cleaning the areas they had concentrated on. As a parent and Girl Scout leader, I’m so proud of our small, but mighty Junior Troop 67254.
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The 2021 Girl Scout Cookie Program will be unlike any we have ever seen! Girl Scouts will be flexing that entrepreneurial muscle, finding innovative ways to reach their goals and making our world a better place. Girl Scouts of Colorado has TWO NEW patches for girls to earn to celebrate all the ways girls are doing this—while staying safe in the midst of a global pandemic.
Host a virtual cookie booth on Super Bowl weekend! Colorado Girl Scouts who do will receive a FREE Virtual Cookie Booth patch if they complete this online form (https://girlscoutsofcolorado.formstack.com/forms/virtual_cookie_booth_patch_2021) no later than Tuesday, February 9, 2021. Please note that this form will not open until February 6. Learn more about hosting a virtual booth on the Girl Scouts of Colorado website: https://www.girlscoutsofcolorado.org/content/dam/girlscoutsofcolorado/documents/2021%20Virtual%20Cookie%20Booth%20Guide.pdf
Colorado Girl Scouts can also earn a FREE Pandemic Perseverance patch by doing the following:
These patches are free only to Colorado Girl Scouts.
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Submitted by Grace H.
Metro Denver
Arvada
For the Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service, we went to a park to pick up garbage. We were going to go to a local park, but decided to go to Rocky Mountain National Park instead. Unfortunately, there was snow covering the ground, so we didn’t find anything to pick up. We did find some elk though! We made sure to clean up everything except our footprints. We wanted to do our part to leave no trace.
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Sign up for our Badge Series program in February 2021 to earn badges related to philanthropy. This program is the perfect complement to the work you are doing through the Girl Scout Cookie Program to learn about being an entrepreneur and philanthropy!
We will kick off the month of February with leaders and girls accessing the courses on our new Google Classroom site. Login information will be sent in the evening of February 2!
Badges for this month are:
If you are not a member of Girl Scouts of Colorado, you can register your girl by accessing our nationwide registration form: https://gscolorado.formstack.com/forms/badge_series_girl_scouts_nationwide_virtual_2020_2021
The deadline to register is Monday, February 1.
Questions? Email MaryKatherine.Thorn@gscolorado.org.
We want to hear how your girl is using her Girl Scout skills by taking initiative, caring for the community, and Girl Scouting at home. She was at the can send in her story here.