I've often thought about trying to get them to add a letterboxing merit badge. I agree with prior post - would have been nice if the badge had encompassed all geolocation forms! There can certainly be a tie in with map and compass for letterboxing -...

Your den won't have to create/hide a geocache for the Webelos Camper requirement. Just go and find one. But the Boy Scout merit badge for geocaching requires the scout to "plan a geohunt for a youth group" and "set up a course with at least four waypoi...

Is it required to exclusively use the geocaching.com website or can any geocaching listing service be used? There are (non-commercial) alternatives! OpenCaching North America (www.opencaching.us; "OCNA") is one such alternative. It's a completely free...

Hi Friends! My Cub Scout is collecting donations for Wreaths to placed on soldiers graves for the Christmas season. Last year we went to place the wreaths on the graves, but noticed there were too many graves without. People did not sponsor enough to...

We (my grandchildren, husband and myself) have participated in this wonderfully inspiring program for the past eight years at Arlington National Cemetery and last year we were told that donations had gone down so much, they weren't sure how long the pr...

My family also participates in this organizations wonderful way of honoring those who have protected us. Our local National Cemetery placed 14,000 wreaths last year. It is an amazing sight to see. However with 14 burials a day that is 5100 more wrea...

It was a really neat ceremony last year. They have someone from every branch of the military there to represent all those who have died and place a wreath on the memorial. My grandfather fought in WWII, so it was special for me to see. The scout...

Thank you Janila! :). All: please pm me when you do donate online. (I need to turn in numbers) Thank you! :)

We have a great group of girls who are getting older and suddenly the parents seem to be checking out. At their request, each takes a month to plan a meeting and outing. We've had 2 outings this year plus a service project which 2 girls showed up fo...

Sorry this reply is so long. (I started with brownies with lots of parents) When they moved to a junior girl scout troop, the girls started to slowly become the leaders and as they grew older, my co leaders and I became advisers. We got to this stage...

How old are the girls? I ask because my personal experience (Brownie through Senior, Ambassadors were not yet established) was that parents were very involved at the Brownie and Junior levels but started to thin out at the Cadette level as a lot of gir...

They are Cadettes and Seniors, mostly 8th graders about to graduate. I fully expected the kids to start losing interest, what I wasn't expecting was to feel like the parents were sabotaging their interest. They show excitement at meetings and plan th...

Hmm. Is it the majority of the parents that are causing issues or just a few? If it's just a few, maybe assign them smaller things within an event and leave the bigger event/activities to parents who are a bit more reliable. Also, maybe they don't chec...

This started happening with my troop when we were senior scouts (late 90's, my mom was our leader). Parents were less and less able to even help carpool, although some would still drop the girls off. For us, my junior/cadette troop ended up split bet...

Hi friends! The Girl Scout cookie season is almost over and Cutie Cat is almost to her goal of 1000 boxes. She was wondering if any of our Letterboxing friends might want some cookies, or to donate a box (or more) of cookies for our active military p...

Thank you so much for posting this!!! on a selfish note: my usual cookie person did not contact me this year...so I got my annual cookie "fix" ;) from you :) Best of everything!!! (BTW: thank you to the council for helping with the shipping! That w...

Awesome! Thank you so much. Cutie cat thanks you too! Enjoy your cookies!

That's not fair... Here in Oregon, it's $5 a box this year. I was not happy to pay $5 a box for a small amount of cookies. Why the difference in states?

It's $5 in my area too. We paid that last year also.

Here in NH the gluten-free and the S'More cookies are $5.00 each and the other flavors are $4.00 each. We have Little Brownie Bakers. Maine has another baker. My troop thinks the Maine gluten-free cookies taste a lot better than our gluten-free cookies...

I'm in Eastern MA. We have the other bakery, ABC, & our cookies are $5. Both NH and Western MA have $4 cookies, so it's tough selling. (And I thought OUR gluten-free cookies were the terrible ones!) One explanation I've heard as to why the cookies ar...

We use ABC baker. I am wondering if the price difference has to do with incentives? We need to sell a lot to get them, but we noticed in NY there was a council that used little brownie baker and if cutie cat sold as many as she did there, she'd hav...

I thought it was due to cost of living/rent etc differences. Ours are $5 for most, $6 for S'mores and gf. Little Brownie Bakers. Incentives seem ridiculously high. (24 for a patch, 50 for a bandanna) We live in a very HCOL area, though. It is s...

My daughter has been wanting to age out specifically so she can be a lifetime member at half price. Not sure what else she wants out of the program, but she says she wants to keep going and use her money for a lifetime membership. It's a goal, right?...

Our girls have to sell 65 boxes for a patch, 100 for the 100 year of cookies patch, 350 boxes for a tee shirt... It's a lot of cookies. It's also 125 boxes/day of resident camp they want to go which is what she works for. Incentives aren't that spec...

The Cookie sale is now over. Thank you everyone who purchased! She made her goal! :)

Hello fellow Girl Scouts! Any letterboxing girl scouts going to Columbus Ohio next week for convention? Thanks!

I am not but printrswife is from SW Indiana. You may want to contact her. Have fun :)

Good Morning! I am visiting my granddaughters, ages 9 & 7, next week (spring break) in Oregon. Their school is just starting Girl Scouts, so I am taking my old badge sash and pins to show them, hoping to get them to join. I was a Brownie, Junior, Cade...

Girls work on badges together or individually. Requirements are only available for purchase at gs stores or online as far as I know. Http://www.girlscoutshop.com The letterboxing badge is what got us into the hobby. I know finding and planting a b...