Learning and Skills Patches

• There are numerous kinds of learning and skill patches you can create to acknowledge a girl's talent, competency or achievement in a certain area. For example, if a troop member made the honor roll, was elected student of the month, or mentored another member, you can make a patch to illustrate the accomplishment. Patches can also be made for activities learned like math, English, a foreign language, reading, writing, poetry, scrapbook making, photography, crafting, recycling, going green, cooking, baking, babysitting, sewing, table setting, healthy eating, nutrition, budgeting and computer skills. If a Girl Scout plays a certain sport or is on a team, you can make a patch that has to do with athletics.
  
  

Event,Theme and Traveling Patches

• These patches are ideal to showcase where the troop has been and its community service or fundraisers. You can create a patch that illustrates a special place the troop visited (museum, tour, organization, business and landmark) and even how they got there (think road trip, bus, car, plane and train patches). If you embarked on a camping trip, consider making patches for the activities. This can include hiking (even the specific distance), map reading, exploring, fire safety, navigating and compass reading, bonfire, first aider, backpacking, orienteering, climbing, setting up a tent, swimming, best fire starter and group leader. Construct your own fun patches, such as best complainer, tastiest s'more maker and silliest storyteller.
  
  

Additional Personalized Fun Patch Ideas

• You can also make holiday and seasonal patches for the troop. For example, seasonal patches can involve activities like leaf raking, shoveling, best snowman maker and gardening. Personalized patches tend to go over well and are a great group activity. These can be looked at as electives of sorts and comprised of patches like best shopper, pet lover, most colorful dresser, friendship patches, most patriotic, best board game player, singer, actress, shopper and other unique qualities that a girl brings to the troop. Below are a list of websites that contain a variety of stock patches to give you additional ideas.