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Girl Scout Life Skills: Home improvement patch?
I am teaching my Girl Scout troop of about 20 8th grade girls about Home Improvement for a Life skills badge. I must complete 2 skill builder aspects, 1 technology aspect, 1 service project and 1 career exploration. Examples of skill builders include painting walls, and creating room accessories, and faux finishing furniture. Examples of technology include learning about cheically created fibers. Service project examples include creaiting "design boxes" for younger girls. Career exploration examples include designing a dream room.
However, I am on a budget of only $25, and only have about two hours with them. I am lost about what to teach these girls. Please help!
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- sha_lyn68Lv 71 decade agoFavorite Answer
8th graders are 3rd yr cadettes. It takes much more than 2 hours to earn an Interest Project (cadettes do not earn badges, that is what Jrs earn). The service project should take 4-6 hr minimum on its own. An IP should take 10-20 hrs to complete.
I assume this is the IP you are working on.
http://shop.gsccc.org/productcart/pc/viewPrd.asp?i...
At the cadette level you are an adviser and not a leader. The girls are suppose to decide on what IPs to learn, which requirements they are going to fulfill, how they are gong to fulfill the requirement (including scheduling how many meetings it will take, who is doing what, what the budget is, contacting any outside resources about the service project etc)
The good news is that the the girls can decide to fulfill some of the requirements at home and then report back to the troop. IE you could have 2 girls do reports on technology and 2 do on career exploration. That would fulfill your technology, career exploration and your + any 2 requirement.
If you turn to the introduction section of the IP book (page 7 in the copy that I have)you will see that in addition to the requirements you listed, you also need +2 activities from any category for a total of 7 activities to complete an IP.
