Make the World a Better Place

Here are 10 ways to earn your rose “Make the World a Better Place” Daisy Girl Scout petal:

1. See a need and start a drive. My then-first-grade Daisy Girl Scouts collected shoes for tornado victims when an F-5 tornado hit the town of Henryville, Indiana. It was a simple effort that started with cleaning out our closets that grew to a churchwide collection of hundreds of shoes.

2. Do a Random Act of Kindness Day.

3. Donate used books to a library or a preschool.

4. Clean up trash in a city park.

5. Play this “Let’s Recycle” sorting game. (Free printable)

6. Read Harry The Happy Mouse: Teaching children to be kind to each other.

7. Plant flowers.

8. Read Beatrice’s Goat, a story of how a poor girl was able to attend school after receiving a goat and then selling its milk to get the money needed to buy her books

9. Participate in a My New Red Shoes project.

10. Plant some free wildflower seeds and help save the bees and butterflies.