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Here are some tips to do an existing Journey with your troop OUTDOORS.A Girl Scout camp is a great place to do things -including current Journey activities and badges - with your troop girls. Start by visiting a camp or going outdoors for a short time, then working up to longer periods of time. This is Progression - and how to help your girls feel comfortable and at home out of doors. After your troop has discovered how fun being outside can be, they may want to go on a longer, overnight trip to a building or home. When they are comfortable with this, maybe they would like to cook outdoors at a Leader's house. Maybe a sleepover for one night at a Leader's home once or more times might be another good next step. As something to look forward to, a stay in a Girl Scout Camp building can be an exciting and fun experience for girls. Staying for longer periods, such as a weekend, can be worked up to also. Special official Journey events may be offered by your Council. Look online or in your Leader book to see when these are offered, and sign your girls up for them. Tip: Some troops have done Journey events with their troop, then had their girls do the Take Action project later. Of course, always make sure you and your co-leader and any volunteers who help with your troop take your official Girl Scout trainings and get registered too. And above all, have fun! Also be sure to see the official GSUSA Progression Chart, which should be in your Council's training materials for the Outdoors.
How to do Daisy Journeys in the Outdoors and at Campby Rhonda Robinson, Charlotte, NC. Daisy Journey Activities in the Outdoors This fun guide helps leaders who are doing the official Journeys for Daisies, the Daisy Flower Garden, Between Earth and Sky, and 3 Cheers for Animals. Here are other Ideas from Girl Scout Councils and other groups that help put Official GSUSA Journeys into the Out of Doors - and this is a good thing!NEW - Project Learning Tree has a Correlations Page that explains how to use their resources in current Journeys and badges like Camper, Trees, and more. There are also grants available. Read the page for more information. The Kentuckiana Council offered a Journey Camporee last Spring. See the description here. It was at a Girl Scout camp. Girl Scouts teamed with Sage YMCA for Journey Camp for Girl Scout girls in Northern Illinois. Be Creative -- use these Journey Helps at the Girl Scout Betsy blog too to make your own Outdoor Journey day or event.http://girlscoutbetsy.blogspot.com/p/journey-helps.html Try out more Outdoor Activities and links - check out the Outdoor Activities page here on the site. And send me your <unofficial> Outdoor Journey ideas too! And here are more Journey Help sites:Girl Scouts of Northern California Jump for Journeys page and more And here are more Journey Helps from the Girl Scout Betsy site:
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A survival camp in Minnesota - plus a video. "Surviving Camp in Minnesota" Girls learned how some bugs taste, how to survive in a desert environment, how to trap animals (using fake ones). These girls are really having a lot of fun.
Here is a video from 2010 showing a camp in New York. Girls themselves explain why they like camp. There are girls here who are learning about nature, and loving it!
Camp here at Camp Henry Kaufmann is a safe place where girls can get away and be with other girls and have fun. This camp runs year-round.
The girls got to work on a Journey, "Wonders of Water" when they were at camp too!
Does your area have a great Girl Scout camp? Send me your links and articles. Thanks!
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