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Brownie Quest is part of "It's Your World-Change It."

• 1 In this Journey, you will:
• 3.1 Discover Your Special Talents and Qualities
• 3.2 Discover Values of the Girl Scout Law
• 3.3 Discover Your Family's Values
• 4.1 Connect as a Team
• 4.2 Connect with Your Family
• 4.3 Connect with Your Community
• 5.1 Choosing a Project
• 5.2 Planning a Project
• 6 Resources
• 7 Take-Action Project ideas

In this Journey, you will: [ ]

• Find out how to take care of yourself, your family, your Girl Scout sisters, and your community—do an activity with your family to chart everyone’s special talents, play games at your troop meetings to learn how to work together, or do a fun “clue hunting” activity to learn the Girl Scout Law.
• Plan a Take Action project, such as visiting a nursery school to read to younger children or teach them a game, creating a school skit about healthy eating, or making a presentation to your city council about fixing a broken sidewalk by your school.
• Earn 4 leadership awards: Discover Key; Connect Key; Take Action Key; Brownie Quest Award. If you're a Girl Scout volunteer, go to Volunteer Toolkit for complete meeting plans and activity instructions. 

Learn more about how to earn your Take Action Award — and help your community — with the Girl Scout Take Action Guide.

Journey: Brownie Quest

• Computer Expert (Brownie Try-it)
• My Best Self (Brownie Try-it)
• Dancer (Brownie Try-it)
• Home Scientist (Brownie Try-it)
• My Family Story (Brownie Try-it)

Discover Key [ ]

Discover your special talents and qualities [ ].

My troop did the ball toss game mentioned in the Brownie Quest Leader's Guide, followed by the girls sitting down to fill out their "Discovering Me" star, which worked fine.

• Teambuilding Spinner . If I did it again, I might modify a spinner like this one from Laura Candler to ask the girls different questions. (Note: While this link says it is for team-building, it seems more useful as a get-to-know-you activity.)
• Conversation Starters for getting to know each other.
• I am Posters. My troop made I Am posters. On thick scrapbook paper, I put a picture of each girl. Then using magazines, they cut words that describe them and their talents. I made sure each of them had the words I Am at the top of the poster.

Discover Values of the Girl Scout Law [ ]

• Girl Scout Law Scavenger Hunt . After looking around in vain for a Girl Scout Law Scavenger Hunt, I finally made up my own File:Girl Scout Law Scavenger Hunt.docx . You should be able to do this in most meeting places, but look at the location hints to make sure they all fit. The file includes: a scavenger hunt list (pages 1-2; print one copy for each girl); pictures to cut apart and hide around the meeting site (pages 3-12; print these double-sided, so the words end up on the back of the appropriate picture; print enough to have a copy of each picture for each girl); a key at the end to know where to hide the pictures (pages 13-14).
• Girl Scout Law letterbox . Another similar idea I had for this was to do it as a Girl Scout Law letterbox set.
• Girl Scout Law Game . Have the girls make up their own rules for this game using the printable board game, some game markers (whatever you want to use), and some dice.

Discover Your Family's Values [ ]

Connect key [ ], connect as a team [ ].

Hula Hoop team-building . We did the hula hoop team building activity from the book, which the girls thought was fun. We did it around the circle once in both directions (and then they wanted to do it again).

I also did another hula hoop activity I learned from an office team-building years ago. The girls stand in a circle and hold out only their index fingers straight. Place the hula hoop in the middle on their fingers -- they can't curve their fingers around it to make it easier to hold! Then, without anyone losing touch with the hoop, they have to lower it to the ground and back up again. It sounds easy, but it's a lot harder than it sounds! (And it was even hard to do with 20 adults!) They have to work together and pay attention to what others on the team are doing.

Saving Fred activity. Help Fred the gummy worm get to his 'life preserver' using only paper clips.

Connect with Your Family [ ]

Make A Family Star that shares why and how the Girl Scout Law is important in your family.

Help lead your family in healthy habits, leading a family talk about healthy foods (how does healthy food help us, use a food pyramid), and come up with family exercises that would help your family lead a healthy lifestyle (like taking a walk every day).

• help mom or dad go grocery shopping and prepare a healthy meal.

Connect with Your Community [ ]

• Me on the Map activity to show the different circles of inclusion between me, family, neighborhood, community, town, state, country, world, etc.

Take Action Key [ ]

Choosing a project [ ].

Project Ideas:

Collecting gently used items from your home (clothes, toys, books) and donating to support a local cause.

Making braided chew ropes for dogs

Bake and donate dog biscuits

Collect for The Pencil Project

Collect for Message of Hope Foundation

Planning a Project [ ]

Resources [ ].

Girl Scouts Brownie Quest official page (includes PDFs and printouts)  http://www.girlscouts.org/program/journeys/your_world/brownie.asp

Girl Scouts of New Jersey have a 4-week journey program on their website www.gsnnj.org/About-Us/GSLE/Girl-Scout-Journeys/Documents/Brownie%20Quest%20Activities%20Program.pdf

Girl Scout Law word search

Take-Action Project ideas [ ]

Having trouble figuring out possible Take-Action projects? Look for ideas on the Take Action Project ideas page.

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Girl Scout Journey in a Day Resources for Leaders

Updated April 2023

If you have read this blog for any length of time, then you know that I have never been a fan of the Girl Scout Journeys program. From the time I first looked at the Daisy Journey book when my troop started in kindergarten, my experienced teacher self thought, “This is age inappropriate!”.

My most commented on blog post in the past 6.5 years has been about the Journeys program ( you can read it here ). I followed it up last year with a post about Councils and leaders having a Journey in a Day program   . The bottom line for me is if it this program is so important, why can it be done in a day? What have you learned in a day that was absorbed completely?

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Leaders who need to do a Journey but dislike the program have flocked to this concept. Since it is so popular, I have decided to place all of the Girl Scout Journey in a Day resources for you in one place. Then you can pick and choose what you want to do!

Of course, before you make any plans on your own, check your Council’s website to see what they are offering for a Journey in a Day. When searching for resources for you, the events often came up at the top of the list.

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Daisy Girl Scout Journey in a Day

One Year of Daisy Scouts (two documents with HOW to do a Journey in a day or sleepover event)

Welcome to the Girl Scout Flower Garden  (from Making Friends)

Between Earth and Sky  (from Making Friends)

3 Cheers for Animals  (from Making Friends)

3 Cheers for Animals (from Plant, Plant, Electro…What?)

3 Cheers for Animals (from Girl Scout Troop 2214)

Brownie Girl Scout Journey in a Day

Wonders of Water (from Girl Scout Troop 2214)

Brownie Quest Sleepover (from A year in the Life of a Girl Scout)

A World of Girls (from Girl Scouts of Nation’s Capital)

Junior Girl Scout Journey in a Day

aMuse (from I am Girl Scouts)

aMuse (from Girl Scouts of Nation’s Capital)

aMuse (from Girl Scout Leader 101)

Get Moving (from I am Girl Scouts)

Get Moving (from Girl Scout Leader 101)

Agent of Change (from Girl Scouts of Central Texas)

Have you done a Journey in a day? Did you plan it or attend a Council event?

10 thoughts on “Girl Scout Journey in a Day Resources for Leaders”

Hi there, I am the troop leader for Troop 2214. Your active link for our Get Moving journey (Juniors) is incorrect. Takes readers to someone else’s (equally amazing!) blog 🙂

Thanks for finding that for me! It is now corrected.

Like you I am not fond of the Journey’s, at all. I would like to know if someone has developed a Journey in a day for the Cadette’s, Senior’s and Ambassador’s?

I am not sure. You may want to join the Facebook groups for older scouts and ask there. They may resources for you.

This is my second year as a Daisy troop leader. The first year we focused on earning the petals. This year, we decided to wade into the Journey badges. We are going to complete the 3 Cheers for Animals and Welcome to the Daisy Flower Garden. We were told the 3 Cheers for Animals Journey was “the one to do”. In fact, it was out of stock and the lead time for shipping was 6 weeks. I was able to find a copy on Amazon though. After digging through the leader guide I was simply amazed at what was expected for this age level. The leader guide suggests taking a whopping 10 meetings to complete this Journey. Almost half of the Journey is planning to earn the Red Robin Award. As an adult I was overwhelmed just reading the leader’s guide! I started tweaking things so they were more appropriate for my girls and I cut the amount of meetings in half. We are also going to take a tour of our local animal shelter and then to earn our Red Robin Award the girls are going to collect supplies to be donated to the animal shelter. I feel like Welcome to the Daisy Flower Garden journey is a bit more age appropriate. It also seems like the meetings are more coherent versus 3 Cheers for Animals which at times to me, feels disjointed. The Flower Garden journey also seems to be more hands on for the girls and I feel will hold their attention more. Luckily for our troop, we will start the Garden Journey in late winter / early spring and the church I attend has decided to start a community garden so all of our plants, worms and possibly Labybugs will be donated to the community garden. I have zero experience with anything other than the Journeys so I cannot compare them to what was done prior to the Journeys. I do think some changes need to be made so they are more age appropriate. The Journey In a Day seems overwhelming as a leader and for the girls. It seems like that would be information overload and I am not sure how much the girls would absorb. And how in the world would you the Gardening Journey in a day? Anyway, sorry for the long comment!!

I appreciate comments both long and short! I did not believe in the Journeys program since I felt it was age inappropriate and required too much overhauling, therefore never did one until I was forced to for my troop to earn the Bronze. Anything that needs that much tweaking to make it work tells me that it is not working! We are volunteers and the program should not have to be modified, which takes up so much more of our time. You may want to join the Daisy Girl Scout Facebook group. They have amazing resources and can help you answer how to do the Journey in a Day. You really do not have to do it, so I would not stress over it.

The irony of Journeys is that they were originally designed to accomplish two goals: (1) provide girls with the specific experience and background skills needed to tackle higher quality Bronze, Silver and Gold Awards since too many girls simply had no clue how to approach a quality project; and (2) to give leaders the type of “turnkey” program they were begging for to reduce the amount of time they were spending coming up with ideas and resources for troop meetings. After struggling for years in a love/hate relationship with Journeys, I have come to appreciate the good parts and I simply ignore or modify the rest.

As an educator for over three decades, I know how to make a program work for my students. The Journeys was a complete disaster, in my opinion, because leaders could not figure out what to do. They had to redo the entire thing and use other resources to get it done. Plus it took forever! Back in the mid 1990’s, my school district adopted a new math program. My two co-teachers and I had the teacher guides over the summer to go over them, and then we met to see how to approach it. We all agreed it was a poorly written program. It took five years and abysmal test scores, plus a consultant who cost $5000, to finally get rid of a program we teachers had been saying all along was bad. We had to rework the entire thing and use outside resources to teach.

The Journeys Program reminded me of that experience. Leaders disliked them. And in my opinion, if you can do a Journey in a Day, what is the point of the program?

Don’t forget the Girl Scouts of River Valleys. They have amazing Activity Plans for EVERY level (including Cadette, Senior, and Ambassador) which break down the Journeys into two 3-4 hour blocks, plus the final Take Action Project. girlscoutsrv.org

(Not my Council, just a big fan of their resources!)

They do have amazing things! Thanks for the reminder!

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Girls learn how to take care of themselves, their families, their Girl Scout sisters, and their community in the  Brownie Quest  Journey. Together they read to younger kids, promote healthy eating, or choose a project that improves the lives of their neighbors.

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Explore what really matters to you and use your passion to change the world—that's what Girl Scout Journeys are all about.

Girl Scout Journeys are multi-session experiences in which girls dig deeper into their interests and use the skills they gain along the way to make a difference in their community. While badges show the world you’ve learned a new skill, Journey awards say, “I found a way to make a difference.”

During a Journey, Girl Scouts do hands-on activities, connect with experts, and take the lead on a Take Action project with their community. And once a Junior, Cadette, Senior, or Ambassador completes their Journey, they’re ready to drive lasting change in their communities by going for their Bronze, Silver, or Gold Award.

Journey requirements can be found in the Award and Badge Explorer. . Volunteers and Girl Scout caregivers can also find the requirements in the Volunteer Toolkit .

Find everything you need to kick-start your adventure with your grade level's Journey.

How Take Action Projects Differ from Community Service Projects

Journeys encourage Girl Scouts of all ages to think critically, boost their problem-solving skills, and make an impact. They’ll learn something new and grow their leadership skills.

Take Action projects are at the heart of all Journeys, but they’re different from the community service projects that Girl Scouts may have done—and you’ll want to understand those differences before planning a Take Action project.

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• My Best Self
• Home Scientist
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Complete the “Brownie Quest” Journey

Submitted by Andrea Robison

Metro Denver

Cadette Troop 60569 is hosting a Brownie Journey event!

Our Cadettes are excited to help Brownies complete this fun and essential journey in just ONE half-day session!

There are 3 sessions from which to choose:

– Saturday, Jan. 27, 2018 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. -Saturday, Jan. 27, 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. -Saturday, Feb. , 1 p.m. – 4 p.m.

All sessions will be located at Northglenn Christian Church (1800 E. 105th Pl., Northglenn, CO 80233).

The “Brownie Quest” Journey will be completed in one half-day session by exploring the three keys (Discover, Connect, Take Action) led by our enthusiastic Cadette guides.

Key 1 (Discover): Learn teamwork and do a scavenger hunt to explore the values of the Girl Scout Law while also learning the value of every girl’s talents.

Key 2 (Connect): Connect as a member of a team by creating a team agreement, preparing a healthy snack (please inform us of any food allergies), and learning simple exercises.

Key 3 (Take Action): Team up to participate in a service project by making newborn blankets for active military families.

Cost: $10 per Brownie

This is not a drop-off event. Leaders are expected to adhere to adult to girl ratios. Journey books and badges are not included.

To register, please go to https://brownie-quest-journey.cheddarup.com . All payments must be made via this link prior to the event (echecks are accepted). No on-site registration will be available.

For more information, contact Andrea Robison at [email protected] .

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