Junior budget maker badge

*This post contains affiliate links. *Updated April 2023 Shopping…it is an activity that most girls love! During the years your girls are Juniors, the awareness of brands and where people shop becomes more evident. The tween years are ones that advertisers heavily market to because they have many wants and Madison Avenue knows how to trigger them. Earning the Girl Scout Junior Savvy Shopper badge is one where we can help guide girls to see what they truly need and what they are convinced…

*This post contains affiliate links. Leaders with troops who are active cookie sellers need to teach them many things. This Girl Scout Junio...

Here are the first set of activities my Junior Girl Scout troop did to earn the Stress Less badge.

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*This post contains affiliate links. Updated April 2023 When Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts of USA in 1912, she had several goals in mind. The first was to develop the minds of girls to be open to all possibilities and to their own potential, whether they chose to be a homemaker or a community activist. At that time in history, many people were isolated in their own communities, as there was no means to go places. When young women joined the Girl Scouts, they were taken out of…

Updated April 2023 One of the best and most difficult ways to earn a living is to be your own boss. It is not easy to own a business, but for those who do, it can be a very worthwhile endeavor. Doing something you love may not make you a multi-millionaire, but when you get to go to work every day for yourself, the rewards can be both intrinsically and extrinsically satisfying, Owning a business does not have to be a brick and mortar store. You can also earn money online by selling items on…

Teaching money management to your kids is important, and doesn't have to be hard! Grab these free kid's budget worksheets and get started.

*This post contains affiliate links. Updated April 2023 It is amazing how far technology has come in the past decade. Camera phones and editing apps have certainly changed how people take and store their photographs. There are many free apps that anyone can download and use to make delightful collages that can then be printed for gifts. The old Girl Scout Junior Badge Book had the Camera Shots badge, and it is one that my girls earned when they were in fifth grade. This badge is a bit…

As with the Daisy and Brownie Trackers, I recreated the old tracker too. Looking forward to how easy these will be to update in the future, which wasn't true with the older version. The old style tracker has a new colorful header too. There are fillable pdf and non-fillable pdf versions available--the fillable version takes the place of the old Word version. I'm working on the Cadette trackers next! That batch shouldn't take me as long because I have the bare bones graphics already done. Old…