Jewelry Badge

This is the first year that Genius has been involved in Girl Scouts. Her best friend Smartgirl has been bugging her since second grade to join her troop. Genius finally decided to take her up on it, and as a 7th grader, join up!

Each girl in the troop (there are 10) gets to choose which badge they want to earn. Isabelle chose the first one: Jewelry Badge (much to Genius's disdain!).

So the first week they looked at different magazines found jewelry cut out pictures and made a folder for the rest of the badge work.

On Friday they all congregated at the Mall. Yikes - 10 tweenage girls together at the mall! Smartgirl's mother is the troop leader, and her co-leader was not available for the evening, so I was asked to step in. Luigi joined us for the evening, so I really actually corralled him for most of the evening (honestly, I think I got the better end of the deal!). At the mall they went to jewelry stores to check out different types of clasps, styles, cuts and gems. The managers and workers in the store, were sooo nice and patient with the girls.

The next portion of the badge is jewelry making -- they will be making a couple of pieces, one to keep and one to give away.

They have to make a piece of jewelry, to bring that evening from home, that they spent no money on. Basically recycling any household goods to make a jewelry piece from. So I ask you any ideas? If you have one or more please comment, and I'll pass them on to Genius!

Photo by Adrian Midgely