Now that you are in full leader mode after not seeing your girls over the winter break, it is time to start planning ahead. If you are selling cookies, then you are knee deep in those activities, earning financial literacy leaves and focusing on troop goals. However, these are still little girls and they need to have a break from all of the cookie talk (and if the truth be told, you as a leader can use a break yourself).
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If you are still working on earning Daisy petals, then you can earn any of the following by doing a Valentine's Day craft:
Yellow-Friendly and Helpful
Light Green-Considerate and Caring
Rose-Make the World a Better Place
Many children love to do crafts, and you can make your life easier by not going Pinterest crazy finding the perfect one, but simply by using a Valentine's Day craft kit that is prepackaged and ready to use.
Here are some that are easy for the girls to do and are easy on your budget.
Valentine's Day Craft Kits
This Valentine Bug Beaded Necklace Craft Kit comes with 12 individually packaged necklaces for the girls to make. The little critters and vibrant colors remind the girls that spring is around the corner!
Available on Amazon
Nothing says Valentine's Day like Conversation Hearts. These sweet treats are a decades old classic! This craft kit comes with 12 individually packaged kits for your girls to use.
These Magic Color Scratch Off Hearts comes with 24 to a package. It includes the tool. These can be gift tags to cookies your troop decorates or just a fun craft to do.
If you are making Valentine's Day cards for the troops or for a local nursing home of senior citizen center, this bucket of peel and stick conversation hearts has 285 for your girls to use.
Instead of making traditional cards, use these large foam shaped hearts as a card. Girl can decorate with stickers and peel and stick rhinestones and write a message inside with a marker.
This Design It Yourself Foam Valentine Craft Kit comes with 24 foam hearts, 832 foam stickers, Hearts (5" - 6") and stickers that are shapes and letters.
Valentine's Day Baking Crafts
Baking is simply edible crafting. After your troop is done making their Valentine's Day craft, they can decorate cookies to eat. Don't worry-no baking is involved! Simply buy the large box of plain sugar cookies every grocery store bakery sells and some white icing in a tub.
Give each girl a paper plate and a plastic knife. Set out paper bowls of the following decorations and let the girls go to town! Be sure to take pictures of the girls and their creations.
There are many options for cookie decorating. Here are just a few.
There are many options for cookie decorating. Here are just a few.
Dress My Cupcake Decorating Edible Cake and Cookie Confetti Sprinkles Available on Amazon
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