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100th Anniversary Patch Program

Looking for a unique way to celebrate the Girl Scout 100th birthday? We're inviting all GSMISTS girls to participate in our council's 100th Anniversary Patch Program, and celebrate our rich history as Girl Scouts. Below are all the details and information, or you can download the Patch Program brochure with all the guidelines here. The patch design will be available soon! 

How to Earn Your 100th Anniversary Patch

Main Patch:

Choose five (5) activities from this list to earn your patch:

  1. Learn five facts about our Founder Juliette Gordon Low. 
  2. Learn five facts about one of the cities/towns in our GSMISTS council. 
  3. Participate in a council or Service Unit 100th Anniversary event. 
  4. Visit three landmarks in our council. 
  5. Learn about one of the five camps in our council. 
  6. Find out about Betsy Cutler and why she's important to our council. Who was Anna Behrens, and why was she important to our council? 
  7. Attend a festival or parade in our council and wear your Girl Scout Uniform.
  8. Participate in or organize a Flag Ceremony. 
  9. Find out how long we have had Girl Scouts from our council on Mackinac Island. 
  10. Find out about what Great Lakes touch our council and what is being done to protect the water and/or shore.

Rockers:
After you earn the main patch, you can earn rockers as well. In order to earn a rocker, you will need to complete two (2) activities in that category. 

Sign Me Up!
  1. Plan and run a bring-a-friend activity for your troop to increase interest among non-Girl Scouts. 
  2. Attend a Girl Scout Week Activity. 
  3. Recruit a new Girl Scout or Volunteer to join. 
  4. Sell 100 boxes of Girl Scout Cookies. 
  5. Have the troop sell 100 items in the Fall Product Sale. 
  6. Work with another troop, at a different program level, to do a 100th Anniversary activity. 
  7. Participate in Early Bird Registration. 
  8. As you get older there are different, exciting Girl Scout opportunities for you. Learn how you can stay involved with Girl Scouts once you graduate from High School and make your personal plan on how you will stay involved. 
  9. Plan and hold a summer gathering. 

Girls Just Want to Have Fun
  1. Hold a hula-hoop, yo-yo-, bubble blowing or other funny competition to see if you can reach 100 turns, 100 seconds or something similar without making a mistake. 
  2. Go bowling and have each girl try to knock down 100 pins. 
  3. Develop a troop 100th special handshake and use it at every meeting. 
  4. Play some new games outside for 100 minutes. 
  5. Collect autographs of 100 Girl Scouts (past or current members). 
  6. As a group, troop or Service Unit try to break a world record. 
  7. Choose a community 100 miles away, research it and explore it in person or virtually. 
  8. Using photographs of Girl Scouts in action (current or historical), create a banner or picture montage to display at your town hall/community center commemorating 100 years of Girl Scouting. 
  9. What else was happening in 1912? Learn about historical events or inventions that share our centennial. (Hint: two states, a popular candy and a Massachusetts entertainment venue all came to be in 1912.) Celebrate one of these events with your troop or others. 

Create with Purpose
  1. Write a poem about Girl Scouting. 
  2. Draw a picture representing a cause you care about. 
  3. Make a trefoil or centennial piñata and break it at a 100th Anniversary event. 
  4. Create a centennial quilt where each square highlights a Girl Scout activity. 
  5. Design and make a centennial t-shirt to wear at your meetings this year. 
  6. Make up a story about Girl Scouting 100 years from now. 
  7. Create 100th bookmarks and distribute to the school library. 
  8. Represent Girl Scouts in a Sand Castle Contest. 
  9. Make your own Girl Scout Cookies - start by using a recipe from the 1920s. 
  10. Make handmade items to donate to a local hospital or charity (e.g. knitted scarves or hats, greeting cards, decorated lunch bags or place mats, gift bags or baskets). 

Make Your World a Better Place
  1. Have your troop collect 100 items for donation (canned goods, socks, books, etc.)
  2. Do a good turn daily for 100 days. 
  3. Have your troop complete 100 hours of community service over the year. 
  4. Make 100 special treats for the kids at a soup kitchen or a senior center/nursing home for a special holiday (e.g. candy cane reindeer at Christmas, flag-shaped treats for 4th of July, Memorial Day or Veterans Day).
  5. Create a centennial rain garden at your school or meeting place. 
  6. Advocate for the implementation of a recycling program where one does not exists.
  7. Plant 100 trees or flowers. 
  8. Conduct a blood drive and aim for 100 donors. 
  9. Create a birthday box for a local food pantry. The box would contain all items necessary for a child's birthday party (cake mix, frosting, decorations, paper plates, etc.)

Citizens of the World
  1. Learn about WAGGGS. 
  2. Host an event to raise money for the Juliette Low Friendship Fund. 
  3. Invite a citizen from another country to your troop or Service Unit. 
  4. Try 10 foods from other countries. 
  5. Make a peace pole or peace flag and put it in your community. Include the word 'peace' in at least 10 languages. 
  6. Find out about some critical human needs in other countries and research an organization that helps. Donate some of your cookie money to that cause. 
  7. Learn 100 words in another language. 
  8. Find out what the world would look like if only 100 people lived on it. Draw a picture or describe in words. 
  9. Honor the Veterans who have served across the world to protect our freedom (examples of activities: make a wreath for Memorial Day; have a flag ceremony; plant flags on Memorial Day; march in a parade; make cards for soldiers). 
  10. Make a poster to help raise awareness of education girls in other countries. 

And make sure to take photos of your group/troop while you're completing the patch activities above, and share them with us here. 

For more information on the 100th Anniversary Patch Program please contact the Pathway Manager at your Service Center. 



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