Brownies (Grades 2-3)

Outdoor Activities

Brownie Pets Badge Activity: Which Pet Is Best Matched for You?

Play B-I-N-G-O while learning how to care for pets!

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Brownie Trail Adventure Badge Activity: Ten Essential Things You Need For An Outdoor Adventure

Learn how to plan an amazing outdoor adventure and collect the ten things every girl needs to have in her pack.

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Brownie Hiker Badge Activity Badge Activity: Learn How To Follow Trail Signs

Set up a mini-trail in your living room, backyard, or park with trail signs made by you. Ask your family members or friends to follow the trail.

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Brownie Cabin Camper Badge Activity: Plan A Camping Trip

Cabin camping is so much fun! But before you go, you and your camping buddies have some choices to make and things to learn.

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Brownie Bugs Badge Activity: Make A Bug Box

Build a box to observe bugs, learn how they move, and interact with nature before releasing them back into their environment.

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Brownie Cabin Camper Badge Activity: Prepare a Camp Meal

Learn how to fix a camp meal that you could make on an outdoor camping adventure.

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Brownie Eco Friend Badge Activity: Observe Outdoor Spaces

Learn more about how to treat outdoor spaces with kindness and teach others how they can, too.

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Brownie Outdoor Art Creator Badge Activity: Make a Leaf Rubbing

Walk outside and see colors, shapes, and ideas for things you want to create.

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Girl Scout Tree Promise

Join a national movement address climate change!  Take the Girl Scout Tree Promise and unlock a special patch when you plant, protect or honor a tree!

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STEM Activities

 Brownie Digital Leadership Badge Activity: Discover Your Digital Footprint: Make Digital Badges

Explore the digital world. Find out what information is safe to share online. Create badges for your digital world.

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 Brownie Shapes in Nature Activity: Collect Data About Birds

Learn about birds in your area and go bird-watching. Create a data table to count the number and kinds of birds you see.

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Special Event: The Space Mission Experience 

Meet former astronaut Wendy Lawrence and find out what it was like to be in space. Join AstraFemina member and former astronaut Wendy Lawrence to hear how she prepared for her missions. What did she have to pack? How did she prepare for zero gravity in space? The recording is free to watch but requires sign-in. This event was hosted by Girl Scouts of the USA and AstraFemina.

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Brownie STEM Career Exploration Badge Activity: Explore The Future

Find out how a career in STEM can help you change the world. You’ll complete a challenge and discover jobs in six different STEM fields.

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Brownie Automotive Design Badge Activity: Create A Vehicle 

Explore some of the steps creative designers take to create a vehicle as you sketch and sculpt your own vehicle for a special customer.

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Brownie Designing Robots Badge Activity: Design a Robot

Discover how engineers have been inspired by humans, animals, and nature. Then, design your own robot inspired by a bumblebee!

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Brownie Think Like a Citizen Scientist Journey Activity: Sharpen Your Observation Skils

Play a game to explore how scientists use observation to learn about our world. 

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Brownie Coding Basics Badge Activity: Create Algorithms for a Computer that Follow a Sequence

Create an algorithm to color in a paper patchwork quilt.

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Brownie Cybersecurity Basics Badge Activity: Tech Scavenger Hunt

Explore how technology impacts our lives on a scavenger hunt for ways technology replaces everyday objects.

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Brownie Space Science Adventurer Badge Activity: Make a Moon Art Project

Create a fun art project with different materials to show the Moon’s surface. 

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Brownie Digital Game Design Badge Activity: Navigate a 3D Maze

Create an algorithm to navigate a character in a 3D maze game

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Life Skills Activities

Special Event: Being Cyber Safe and Cyber Savvy

All around the world, girls like you are connecting with friends, family, and communities online. Talk with real experts from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) about stories you might not hear about on the news. We're chatting with a panel of special agents on all-things cyber: cybersecurity, cyberbullying, and how you can help others be cybersafe online.The recording is free to watch but requires sign-in. This event was hosted by Girl Scouts of the USA and our partners from the FBI.

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Brownie My Promise, My Faith Pin Activity: Explore the Girl Scout Law and Your Faith

Create a keepsake to showcase your principles and values.

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Brownie Potter Badge Activity: Make a Pinch Pot

Learn about pottery and make your own pinch pot, which can hold small items, like coins or jewelry. 

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Brownie Global Action Day Activity: Create a Girls’ Bill of Rights

What rights do you have? How do your rights compare to other girls’ rights around the world?

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Brownie Global Action Award Activity: Saving the world one footprint at a time!

Measure your carbon footprint and reduce its impact.

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Brownie Suffrage Centennial Activity: Record yourself speaking about why voting is important.

Record yourself talking about why you think voting is important.

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Democracy for Brownies Badge Activity: Make the Capitol Building

Learn about the legislative branch of the United States.

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Brownie My Best Self Badge Activity: Create a "Happy Box"

Find ways to cheer yourself up when you’re feeling down.

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Brownie Celebrating Community Badge Activity: Draw Your State's Symbols

Explore symbols in your community. 

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Brownie First Aid Badge Activity: Role Play 911

Learn how to get help from 911 in different emergency situations. 

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Brownie Girl Scout Way Badge Activity: Create a Story, Play, or Puppet Show

Share sisterhood through a story, play, or puppet show.

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Brownie Global Action Activity: Rewriting Nursery Rhymes

As part of earning the Global Action Award, explore a nursey rhyme and how it might have some stereotypes about what girls and boys are like.

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Brownie Global Action Activity: Wave Your Flag

Learn how to make your own flag to represent you, your family, and your community to celebrate the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) on World Thinking Day.

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Brownie My Family Story Badge Activity: Make a Family Crest

Use colors and symbols to show what’s important to your family.

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Brownie Painting Badge Activity: Paint a Still Life

Color your world and paint the real world. Gain new ideas about what to paint—and how to paint it.

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Brownie World Thinking Day Activity:

Make face masks representing different emotions and use them to explore feelings and understand how others feel. Then talk about how listening and respect can help build peace.

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 Entrepreneurship Activities

 Brownie My Cookie Customers Badge Activity: Draw Your Community and Find Your Customers

Think of new places to find customers and how you will inspire them to buy. 

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Budding Entrepreneur Badge Activity: Be an Inventor

Come up with an idea that makes life better—just like entrepreneurs do.

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Brownie Inventor Badge Activity: Warm Up Your Inventor’s Mind

If you’ve ever found a new way to use a tool or toy, you’re already an inventor! This activity will help you explore what it means to be an inventor.

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Brownie Philanthropist Badge Activity:  Learn What Every Person Needs

Girl Scouts make the world a better place. One way to do that is to make sure everyone has what they need. In this activity you will spend time iguring out the difference between things you may want and things you may need.

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Brownie Cookie Entrepreneur Family Pin Activity: Five Steps to Reach Your Cookie Sales Goals

Learn how you and your family can support your personal and troop cookie sales goals.

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Troop Leaders:  The instructions for all badge steps are available free of charge in your Girl Scout Volunteer Toolkit.