As a follow-up to using Girl Scouts in your homeschooling, here's a list of free printable paper crafts, swap crafts, and coloring pages and worksheets. These printables and activity instructions can be used by Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, homeschoolers, and other children to meet a variety of activity needs.
Scouts use crafts to support their interests, learn new things, and to reinforce the lessons they are learning through scouting projects and service.
Scouts Paper Crafts and Activity Printables
MakingFriends.com has a page full of paper crafts and printables for Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts of all levels. You'll find instructions for
- flower friend puppets,
- a Girl Scout journal and scrapbook,
- SWAP booklets and pins,
- paper dolls and mini-Scouts,
- coloring pages,
- word searches, puzzles, etc.
In addition to the free printables and craft instructions, MakingFriends.com offers many discount craft activity kits, including badge-in-a-bag kits, for various scouting groups.
GirlScouts.org, you'll find Girl Scouts print-and-play activities, as well as online games.
BellaOnline provides a list of online links to Girl Scouts activities, clip art, and resources.
Scouts Coloring Pages, Worksheets, and Clip Art
- Scouting Web has a 12-page printable Girl Scout Law coloring book (pdf).
- Scouting Web provides a list of scouting coloring pages and crafts, as well as other types of craft activities. Scouting Web is designed for Girl Scouts with category pages for each level.
- Teacher Planet has Girl Scouts lesson plans, activities, and clip art.
- Cub Scout camping and scouting coloring pages at activity-sheets.com.
- Colortime.com has some cute Girl Scout coloring page designs.
- Freeprintable.com has a few Cub Scout icon stencil clip art images.
- Scouter.com has Boy Scout clip art.
You can also search general coloring page websites for camping theme coloring books and activity sheets.
Scouts Activities, Recipes, and Songs
- DLTK Growing Together provides a list of printable scout activities, including campout recipes and songs. In addition to the scouting activities, DLTK-kids.com provides printables by season, holiday, and a variety of subject interests.
- Boy Scout Trail provides links to activities, games, projects, recipes, and stories for Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts of different levels.
- ScouterMom.com has recipes for Boy Scouts and Cub Scouts, as well as other resources for scouting families.
These printable craft activities and activity instruction sheets may be useful to scouts, homeschoolers, and other children for meeting a variety of activity needs.
Sara McGrath - Sara is a veteran homeschool mom of three, Usborne consultant, and the author of Unschooling: A Lifestyle of Learning.
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