Service Opportunities with OOTW
Common Faire activities and events provide community service opportunities.
Please remember to
follow Girl Scout policy regarding earning recognitions as well as any safety
requirements specified in Safety Wise.
Possible service opportunities with OOTW can include the
listed activities.
Contact OOTW at OOTW@virginiaren.info or call (703) 508-5036 to
arrange service opportunities.
Brownie Try Its:
- Make It, Eat It Activity #4: Green Thumb - Grow flowers
and herbs for The Garden
Interest Projects for Cadette and Senior Girl Scouts:
- Home Improvement: Service Project Activity #2 - Volunteer for a weekend construction
program.
- Maps, Maps, and More: Service Project
Activity #3 - Volunteer to help collect data that can be used to assist
an organization (Possibly exit surveys)
- Plant Life: Service Project Activity #1 - Help turn a vacant lot
or other public space into an "oasis" by volunteering to landscape it.
- Plant Life: Service Project Activity #2 - With a partner, or your
troop or group, plant an area with native vegetation that will provide food or
shelter for birds.
- Plant Life: Service Project Activity #3 - Plant a community butterfly garden.
- Public Relations: Service Project Activity #1 - Volunteer to help a local organization develop a
PR campaign to publicize its services to the community or to youth.
- Desktop Publishing: Service Project Activity #2 - Design a patch for an event using a desktop publishing or a
drawing software package.
- Exploring the Net: Service Project Activity #1 - Develop a
scavenger hunt for peers or younger Girl Scouts that teaches them how to use the
Internet.
- Graphic Communication: Service Project Activity #1 - Volunteer to work on a
newsletter of another organization.
- Graphic Communication: Service Project Activity #3 - Help a group design a Web page.
- Fashion Design: Service Project Activity #4 - Volunteer
at a local theater or school to assist with costume design.
- The Play's the Thing: Skill Builder #1 - Be a backstage star!
- Service Project Activity #1 - Volunteer as a gofer, ticket person, usher, or program writer for your local
community theater.
- Games for Life: Service Project Activity #6 - Volunteer to help at a cultural event or at
a living history reenactment that features games played in the past by a
specific cultural group.
- The Performing Arts: Skill Builders Activity #4 - Join your local choir,
chorus, band, dance, or theater group.
- The Performing Arts: Service Project Activity #5 - Participate in a performance that helps
the community.
