Girl Scout Overnight Badges
Brownie Girl Scouts
Children’s Museum of Houston
Created by MLe McWilliams, Gallery Programs Coordinator
Dear Troop Leaders,
This packet contains the badges that the Children’s Museum of Houston will offer for your overnight
adventure! When looking through, choose ONE partial or full completion badge which you will like for
your troop to complete during your overnight stay at the museum. When you make your reservation
with Lydia Dungus, Reservation Coordinator, please tell her which badge your troop has chosen. This
badge activity will be done in your first hour and a half while the second hour will be your troop’s
exploration time in the museum.
If you have any questions, feel free to e-mail me at mmcwilliams@cmhouston.org
Thanks,
MLe McWilliams
Brownie Badge Sheet – Full Completion
Badge
Activity
Museum
Painting
Artists take what they see and
make it beautiful. Learn to
paint and color your world in
super strokes.
Art Academy – Kidtropolis
(Legacy – Artist)
(Full Completion)
1. Look through the books
1. Get inspired
2. Paint the real world
3. Paint a mood
4. Paint without brushes
5. Paint a mural
2.
When I’ve earned this badge,
I’ll have new ideas about what
to paint—and how to paint it
4.
3.
5.
My Family Story
Skill Building – It’s Your
World: (Storytelling)
(Full Completion)
Every family has stories. It's
good to share them so you
know who helped make you
who you are. Do this badge to
find out more about the
people you love and who love
you. That's your family!
1. Explore family stories
2. Know where your family is
from
3. Make a story tree
4. Find an object that means
something to your family
5. Share your family story
When I've earned this badge,
I'll know how to tell my family
story.
and images of art. Discuss
with your troop the
information that you
learned and why.
Use the easels to paint a
still life, a landscape, or a
portrait.
Create a picture using
colors with a specific mood
in mind.
Use the materials provided
to create a work of art
without a paintbrush.
Use butcher paper to
create a mural with your
troop about your visit to
the museum and what you
have learned about art so
far.
Heart & Seoul of Korea
1. Share a story to your
troop about your family.
Explore the family house
and school to see
similarities between
Korean homes and
schools and your own.
2. Visit the KPop Studio to
sing a song, or the school
to complete a craft.
3. Sit in the school and
complete your family tree.
4. Visit the house to learn
about tradition clothing,
food etc. Compare with
your house and traditions
5. Sit in the school and
create a family crest. Use
the internet to help you
look up one.
Created Fall 2014
Fair Play
(Legacy – Athlete)
Playing fair means that
everyone has the same
chance to play, because
everyone follows the same
rules. That’s what this badge
is about. You’ll learn to work
together to have the most fun
possible. That’s fair play!
1. Follow the rules
2. Include everyone
3. Be part of a team
4. Keep score
5. Have a field day
(Full Completion)
Home Scientist
Skill Building – It’s Your
World: (Science &
Technology)
(Full Completion)
When I've earned this badge,
I'll know how to play fair in
sports.
You’re a scientist every time
you do an experiment! In this
badge, find out where science
has been hiding in your own
home.
1. Be a kitchen scientists
2. Create static electricity
3. Dive into density
4. Make something bubble
up
5. Play with science
When I have earned this
badge, I’ll be able to see
science all around me.
Power Play – All 3 Levels
1. (Upper Level)
Use the Light Chase
component to learn and
follow the rules to play –
Dodgeball, Musical
Squares or Force Field.
2. (Main Level)
Try a Dance Game or
Light Up Twister and
include everyone. Talk to
your adults to discuss
how scouts with
disabilities could play this
game or how to tweak it
so they could.
3. (Lower Level)
Work as a team to create
a new game and play it
with a troop.
4. (Upper Level)
Keep score of how far the
scouts can climb across
the rock wall.
5. (3 Levels)
Use all three levels to
create an obstacle course
that the scouts must
complete.
(Example – climb the wall,
climb up the tower, race
the superheroes, and play
a dance game)
Science Station
1. Make your own ice cream
using coffee creamer.
2. Make pepper dance by
pouring a small pile of
pepper and salt on a tray
and using a balloon.
3. Test an egg in salt water
to see if it floats or sinks.
4. Make Alka Seltzer rockets
with film canisters, warm
water and Alka Seltzer.
5. Create Oobleck using
corn starch and water.
Created Fall 2014
Senses
Skill Building – It’s Your
Planet: (Investigation)
You have five senses that
work together to let you see,
hear, smell, taste, and touch
the world around you. Try all
five in this badge!
1. Look around
2. Listen to the world
3. Put your nose to work
4. Take a taste test
5. Touch and feel
(Full Completion)
Inventor
Skill Building – It’s Your
Story: (Innovation)
When I've earned this badge,
I'll know how I use my five
senses to explore the world.
In this badge, find out how
inventors make stuff—and
become an inventor yourself!
1. Warm up your inventor's
mind
2. Find lots of ways to solve
the same problem
3. Make a needs list
4. Solve a problem
5. Share your invention
(Full Completion)
When I've earned this badge,
I'll know how to think like an
inventor.
Think Tank/Matter
Factory/Science Station
1. (Think Tank)
Play Kim’s Game using
10 different items covered
by a sheet.
2. (All Galleries)
Listen to different sounds
throughout the galleries.
Write down the sounds
you heard.
3. (Science Station)
Play the sent game.
4. (Matter Factory)
Use the microscope to
look at you and friend’s
taste buds. What did you
notice?
5. (Matter Factory)
Explore the texture wall
by touching the various
forms of matter. Use your
senses to figure out what
they are without looking?
Invention Convention
1. Come up with different
things you can make from
circles.
2. Find a way to make a
rocket go through a hoop.
3. Find a problem with
something you encounter
every day, try to figure out
a way to fix it.
4. Brainstorm how to fix the
problem from Step 4,
using the materials in
Invention Convention.
5. Build your own invention.
Created Fall 2014
Brownie Badge Sheet – Partial Completion
My Best Self
Skill Building – It’s Your
World: (Healthy Living)
(Partial
Completion)
Pets
Skill Building – It’s Your
Story: (Animals)
(Partial
Completion)
Learn to pay attention to what
your body needs and ask for
health help if you need it.
1. Get to know your body
2. Eat and play in a healthy
way
3. Find out how your body
works
4. Know what to do if
something bugs you
5. Meet a health helper
When I've earned this badge,
I'll know how to keep myself
healthy and happy.
If you hope to have a pet
someday, use this badge to
learn how to choose the pet
that's right for you—and make
sure it stays happy and
healthy. Or find out how to
take the best care of a pet you
already have!
1. Find out what care different
pets need
2. Keep a pet comfy
3. Help a pet stay healthy
and safe
4. Make a pet feel loved
5. Feed a pet
Kidtropolis/Power Science
Lab/Power Play
1. (Art Academy –
Kidtropolis
Use the crayons to color
in your Elf Self and talk
about your similarities and
differences with your
troop.
2. (Power Play)
Try 3 different games in
Power Play. Learn about
what types of exercise
you used while playing.
3. (Power Science Lab)
Use the body chart to look
at your digestive system
and why different parts
might hurt.
4. – Complete at home –
5. (Municipal –
Kidtropolis)
Look at the ambulance in
the municipal building.
Look at what tools are
used. (Should also talk to
a doctor or nurse)
Vet Clinic – Kidtropolis
1. Play pet bingo at the Vet
Clinic in Kidtropolis. Learn
about what pets need.
2. – Complete at home –
3. Play the Vet Game in the
Clinic. Try to complete 2
different binders.
4. – Complete at home –
5. – Complete at home –
When I've earned this badge,
I'll know how to take care of a
pet.
Created Fall 2014
Dancer
Skill Building – It’s Your
World: (Performance)
Get ready to jump up and
move to the beat in this
badge. You'll learn fun warmups, perform steps from new
dances, and make a dance of
your very own.
1. Warm up and get moving
2. Try a new dance
3. Take to the floor like a
dancer
4. Make up your own dance
5. Show your moves!
(Partial
Completion)
When I've earned this badge,
I'll have explored the world of
dancing -- and found the
dancer inside of me.
Power Play
1. (Main Level)
Try different stretches
using the Light Up Twister
game. Make sure to
stretch you whole body
and make each letter of
the alphabet with your
body.
2. (Main Level)
Try out a new dance in
Dance Mania.
3. (Lower Level)
Pretend you’re a Scout in
the 1930’s try:
- A curtsy & a deep
curtsy
- Proper carriage in
walking
- Correct standing
position
(Use the internet for help)
4. (Upper Level)
Dance on the Light Chase
component to tell a story
to your troop.
5. – Complete at home –
Created Fall 2014