Service Projects

Bird Feeders

Our Community had a contest. Each troop needed to submit a recycled bird feeder. The winning troop won a pizza party. Unfortunately we did not win. But we had fun hanging them in the woods at a local lake.

Project Linus

You can send handmade blankets to sick children for a security blanket. For more information go to Project Linus.

Presby Nursing Home

On Valentine's Day each year my Brownie troop goes to the Presby home to visit the patients. On the meeting before, we make Valentine Cards and we pass them out when we visit. The patients really look forward to it every year.

Can Good Donation

At Christmas and Easter our troop gathers can goods to take to our local food pantry.

Puppet Theater

Make a puppet theater and puppets and donate it to a local church that has a play room or to a local shelter.

Recycled Greeting Cards

I found this one on the Internet. Send only the fronts of greeting cards as long as they are not written on the other side) to the following address. The children there make recycled greeting cards.

St. Jude's Ranch for Children
100 St. Judes Street
Boulder City, Nevada 89006-0100

Red Cross Friendship Boxes

Contact your local Red Cross for this project. You can fill the boxes with school supplies, health supplies, etc. You can also make placemats, Christmas stockings, or Easter baskets.

Holiday Meal Box

Instead of collecting can goods for Thanksgiving this year we are putting together a holiday meal box and we are going to donate it to the local food bank to be given to a needy family for their Thanksgiving dinner. Items included are as follows:

• turkey
• stuffing mix
• salt and pepper
• can vegetables
• can sweet potatoes
• bag of potatoes
• napkins and paper towels
• plastic silverware
• paper plates and bowls
• powdered milk
• can fruit
• corn bread and muffin mix
• jars of gravy
• can fruit juice
• cake mix and icing
• box of tea bags
• cranberry sauce
• box of brown sugar
• pie and cake pans
• paper cups
• can pumpkin
• small bottle of oil
• bag of mini marshmallow
• evaporated milk
• pumpkin pie spice
• kool aid
• turkey pan
• sugar
• butter sticks
• ready to cook bisquits
• instant coffee
• eggs
• pie crust
• hot chocolate

We added alot to the list, but we divided the list between the girls and the troop will buy some of it. We are also going to make placemats to put it the box and we are going to decorate the outside of the box with different colored cut out leaves.

Sponsor an Animal

We sponsored a rabbit at our local zoo. His name is Claiborn. Learn more about Claiborn on our rabbit page.

National Teacher Appreciation Day

We baked cookies for our teachers and passed them out on this day. The teachers just loved them.

Stuffed Animals

The girls collected stuffed animals and we donated them to a local woman's shelter.

ER Kits

The girls stuffed ziploc bags with the following items and donated them to the local hospital's ER department.

• 4 coloring book pages
• 2 pieces of line paper
• 2 peices of white paper
• 1 pencil
• 1 eight pack of crayons
• 1 simple toy - a ball, playing cards, Chinese yoyo, or bubbles.