The holiday season is just around the corner and is full of opportunities for girls of all levels to Make the World a Better Place! This year we are collecting Wands for Wildlife, Toys for Tots, ornaments for the Centre County United Way Festival of Trees, and helping out with the Elves’ Gift Shop and Boalsburg Hometown Christmas. Keep reading for details on all these opportunities and projects.
If your troop has another service project they want help with, be sure to let us know!
Wands for Wildlife
Brownie [troop num=41123/] has taken on a service project to collect used mascara wands to send to wildlife refuge that uses them to clean the animals. If you have any to donate, containers will be out and about in the community or you can [troop num=41123]contact the troop[/troop]. The troop will clean them and ship.
We will happily collect them at the Service Unit meetings as well.
See http://www.appalachianwild.org/wands-for-wildlife.html for more details
Festival of Trees
Each year Service Unit 416 donates a decorated Christmas tree to the Centre County United Way Festival of Trees. Taking place at Central PA Institute of Science and Technology (CPI) during Bellefonte Victorian Christmas and raises money for the United Way’s 34 local partner agencies. After the event, the trees are donated to families and organizations in need.
Your troop can help by donating decorations made with love by considerate and caring scouts or by helping with the tree decorating.
Ornaments are due by Wednesday, December 6 (bring to a Service Unit meeting or drop in the green bin at Jodi’s house).
Tree decorating will take place on the evening of Thursday, December 7.
Toys for Tots Wrapping
The annual Toys for Tots wrapping session for youth groups and scout troops will be Saturday December 16th 10:00 A.M. to 12:00 Noon. Even Daisies are welcome to help wrap presents and will have age appropriate jobs.
For more information about Toys for Tots and how you can help, visit https://lemont-pa.toysfortots.org/. All participating youth and adults need to have signed volunteer agreement forms for the event (separate from Girl Scout Permission for Activities forms).
Boalsburg Hometown Christmas
Traditionally Girl Scouts have helped with the Santa Breakfast at the Boalsburg Hometown Christmas. This year’s breakfast takes place on Saturday, December 2 from 8:30-11:00 at the Boalsburg fire hall.
Elves Gift Shop Helpers
The Junior Woman’s Club of State College needs Elves for their annual Elves Workshop. The Elves Workshop invites children to come and buy Christmas presents for their family while their parents drink cocoa. Traditionally, local Girl Scouts (Junior level and higher) volunteer to help serve as “elves” on the day of the event and help guide the younger children around the workshop.
This year’s Elves’ Gift Shop will take place on Saturday, December 2. For more information click here or contact Kelly Braun.
Stockings for the Troops
