After School Activities

I recall the days as a teacher in charge and officer of a uniformed group in the Primary School. It offered the opportunity to be in a uniformed group that I missed when I was a student. It was fun organizing activities for the children despite the obstacles of time, suspension of meetings due to various reasons, and lack of helpers.

Uniformed groups offer a wider spectrum of activities as any other co-curricular activities, and provide their members with skills in the physical, socio-emotional, spiritual and mental domains. They demand discipline, self-control and pro-active minds. There is not a dull moment during meetings unless members choose to have a negative attitude towards activities.

Here are examples of some activities that members of uniformed groups can participate in, and work towards their badges and awards.

HOME ECONOMICS

Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Let's Get Cooking

Solar cooking is a fun activity that Girl Scouts could experiment with. As it could involve a long waiting period, a great scout leader will weave in the following activities during the cooking process, such as planning and executing a birthday party for a neighbour, relative  or family member.

Combine some social work with cooking. The Girl Scouts could clean up an elderly neighbor's home and cook her a meal.

A more massive project could be organizing a flea food market to raise funds for a charitable organisation.

Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Sew Simple

Girls could help their family members and folks in the neighborhood mend their clothes or stitch on lost buttons.

Little money pouches secured with buttons are easy to make too. These pouches could be cut out from remnants of cloth or discarded clothes.

* Girls could also decorate or mend holes in plain clothes with embroidered emblems.

INFO-TECHNOLOGY

Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Computer Fun

The computer has become an integral part of many people in developing and developed countries. Smart phones are viable alternatives to a bulky desktop.

Girls could create their own blogs on a defined theme that benefits their school community or neighbourhood. Along the way, they learn to be socially responsible online and benefit their readers by providing news-worthy resources.

Girls could also source out free design apps on a whole range of items and organise their own exhibitions. For all you know, they could embark on a new career based on the same interest in the near future.

Social Studies

Online social media has shrunken the world. Folks from every corner of the world can communicate face to face without the need to leave their home country. Information is easily available at the click of an icon on your smartphone. You no longer need to lug around a 2kg netbook to get work done online. Activities for the following badges are thus easily accomplished.

Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Globe-trotting

Junior Girl Scout badge activities: My Community

Academia

Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Math Whiz

Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Science in Everyday Life

Aesthetics

Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Art in 3-D

Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Making Music

Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Music Fan

Junior Girl Scout badge activities: Adventure Sports