The Badge Matcher

The Badge Matcher will help you find art and craft activities that meet some of the requirements for Girl Scout badges and Brownie Try-Its. One of the purposes of The Imagination Factory is to encourage visitors to take care of our natural resources, so most activities can be used to help earn awards such as Eco-Action and Environmental Health. Since many are especially important in making people aware of the solid waste problem, they are listed separately in the Badge Matcher.

In the same way, projects can be used to earn art and crafts awards, and since some are more suited for particular badges, they are matched as well. Nearly all activities link to other Web sites that have art history or environmental information. Visit the Research Department to find more links, and for a complete list of all projects at The Imagination Factory, see All Art Lessons or Previous Activities. Please note that The Imagination Factory is not affiliated with the Girl Scouts of the USA. The Badge Matcher is provided as a service to Girl Scout and Brownie leaders.

Girl Scout Badges

 Aerospace Go Fly a Kite!

Across Generations Crafts
  Holidays  

 
Architecture A Kid's Columbus
  Fold an Accordion Book  
  Draw a Picture to Help Save a Building

 
Art in the Home Wrap It Up for Chanukah!
  Cover A Picture Frame Mat
  Craft a Luminary
  Create a Butterfly Mobile
  Have a Green Christmas
  Origami Boxes
  Make a Treasure Box
  Make a Garden Goddess
  Make a Papier Mache Bowl
  Cast a Paper Valentine
  Make a Tray for Mother's Day
  Make an Uncle Sam Folk Art Figure
  Marble a Fabric Gift Wrap
  Shred a Scarecrow
  Support the Angel Project

 
Art in 3-D Carve a Free-Form Sculpture
   Create a Butterfly Mobile
  A Kid's Columbus

 
Art to Wear Junk Mail Jewelry
  Draw, Pardner!  
  Papier Mache (Pulp Method)
  Soda Straw Weaving
  Tie and Dye a T-shirt
Weave a Freedom Bracelet
  Scratch Paper Sketch Pad  
  Fold an Accordion Book  

 
Caring for Children Crafts
  Fold an Accordion Book  
  Holidays

 
Celebrating People Design A Postage Stamp for Black History Month
  What Did You Do On Your Summer Vacation?

 
Ceramics and Clay Carve a Free-Form Sculpture

 
"Collecting" Hobbies Mail Your Art!
  Mail Your Art 2000
  Create Artist's Trading Cards

 
Communication Arts What Did You Do On Your Summer Vacation?

 
Creative Solutions Trash Matcher
  What's a landfill?  

 
"Doing" Hobbies Soda Straw Weaving
  Origami Boxes
  Junk Mail Jewelry
  Cast a Paper Valentine
  Cover A Picture Frame Mat
  Fold an Accordion Book
  Create a Butterfly Mobile
  Make a Print! Make a Print! Make a Print!
  America the Beautiful?
  Draw a Picture to Help Save a Building
  Make a Papier Mache Bowl
  Make a Tray for Mother's Day
  Make a Treasure Box
  Marble a Fabric Gift Wrap
  Soda Straw Weaving
  Tie and Dye a T-shirt
  Wrap It Up for Chanukah!

 
Dabbler (The World of Today and Tomorrow) Mat Board Sculpture
  Put On A Happy Face

 
Discovering Technology  What's a landfill?

 
Drawing and Painting My Community A Kid's Columbus
  Make a Drawing to Help Save a Building

 
Drawing and Painting Drawing
  Painting
  Cool School Tools and Materials
  Creative Department (Marilyn Brackney)
  Painting Without a Brush

 
Earth Connections America the Beautiful?
  Make Your Own Trashasaurus Rex Sculpture
  What's a Landfill?

 
Eco-Action What's a Landfill? 
  Make Your Own Trashasaurus Rex Sculpture  
  Make a Trashasaurus Rex Model
  All Art Activities  
  Support the Earth Day Groceries Project  
  Creative Department (Marilyn Brackney)

 
Environmental Health What's a Landfill?
Trashasaurus Rex

 
Folk Art Cover A Picture Frame Mat
  Draw a Portrait
  Make a Papier Mache Bowl
  Make a Rain Stick for Earth Day
  Soda Straw Weaving
  Make an Uncle Sam Folk Art Figure
  Origami Boxes
  Marble a Fabric Gift Wrap
  Knot a Bubble Wand
  Cast a Paper Valentine  
  Make a Garden Goddess  
  What Can a Can Be Besides a Can?

 
Global Awareness  A Kid's Columbus

 
Globe-Trotting A Kid's Columbus
  Fold an Accordion Book

 
High on Life All Art Activities

 
It's Important to Me America the Beautiful?
  Draw a Picture to Help Save a Building
  Support the Earth Day Groceries Project
  Have a Green Christmas
  Make a Trashasaurus Rex Model
  Make Your Own Trashasaurus Rex Sculpture
  Support the Earth Day Groceries Project

 
Jewelry Junk Mail Jewelry
  Make a Treasure Box
  Papier Mache (Pulp Method)
  Soda Straw Weaving  
  Weave a Freedom Bracelet  
  Knot a Bubble Wand 

 
Lead On Trash a Pizza!
  What's a Landfill?
  Creative Department

 
Local Lore A Kid's Columbus:
  Make an Uncle Sam Folk Art Figure 
  Fold an Accordion Book

 
“Making” Hobbies Crafts
  Marble a Fabric Gift Wrap
  Make an Uncle Sam Folk Art Figure
  Wrap It Up for Chanukah!
  Trash Matcher
  Creative Department (Marilyn Brackney)

 
Model Citizen America the Beautiful?
  Design A Postage Stamp for Black History Month
  Make Your Own Trashasaurus Rex Sculpture
  Make a Trashasaurus Rex Model
  Support the Earth Day Groceries Project
  Have a Green Christmas
  Trash a Pizza!
  Draw a Picture to Help Save a Building
   Weave a Freedom Bracelet

 
Music Fan Make A Rain Stick for Earth Day

 
My Community A Kid's Columbus:
  America the Beautiful?

 
My Heritage Fold an Accordion Book
  Wrap It Up for Chanukah!
  Origami Boxes
  Go Fly a Kite!
  Marble a Fabric Gift Wrap
  Design a Postage Stamp for Black History Month

 
On My Way A Kid's Columbus

 
Outdoor Creativity Have Fun with Paint
  Draw, Pardner!
  Paint a Wet-Into-Wet Watercolor
  Draw on Kenaf
  Carve a Free-Form Sculpture
  Illustrate a Word
  Irwin Gardens
  Fold an Accordion Book

 
Outdoors in the City America the Beautiful?
  Go Fly a Kite!
  A Kid's Columbus
  Paint a Wet-Into-Wet Watercolor
  Have Fun with Paint

 
Prints and Graphics Wrap It Up for Chanukah!
  Make a Print! Make A Print! Make A Print!
  Stamp It!
Cover A Picture Frame Mat

 
Theater Put On A Happy Face
  Fold an Accordion Book

 
The Choice Is Yours  What's a Landfill?
   Trash a Pizza!

 
Toymaker Go Fly a Kite!
  Make A Rain Stick for Earth Day

 
Traveler A Kid's Columbus
  Make an Uncle Sam Folk Art Figure
   Fold an Accordion Book
  Mail Your Art!
  Mail Your Art 2000
  The Flat Stanley Project

 
Visual Arts Have Fun with Paint
  Paint a Wet-Into-Wet Watercolor
  Painting Without a Brush
  A Kid's Columbus

 
Water Fun Knot a Bubble Wand

 
Write All About It Fold an Accordion Book

 
Yarn and Fabric Arts Marble a Fabric Gift Wrap
  Knot a Bubble Wand
  Soda Straw Weaving
  Tie and Dye a T-shirt
  Weave a Freedom Bracelet

 
Your Outdoor Surroundings Illustrate a Word
  Draw, Pardner!

 

Brownie Girl Scout Try-Its

Around the World Fold an Accordion Book

 
Art to Wear Junk Mail Jewelry
  Papier Mache (Pulp Method)
  Put On A Happy Face
  Tie and Dye a T-shirt

 
Citizen Near and Far America the Beautiful?
  Creative Department (Marilyn Brackney)
  PR/Trashasaurus Rex
  What's a Landfill?

 
Hobbies All Art Lessons

 
Make It-Eat It Fold an Accordion Book

 
Music Make A Rain Stick for Earth Day

 
 Science Wonders Knot a Bubble Wand

 
Sounds of Music Make A Rain Stick for Earth Day

 
Travel Right Fold an Accordion Book

 
Write Away Fold an Accordion Book

 

Click here to purchase CD See The Imagination Factory's Outlet Store for two CDs that match many more Girl Scout and Brownie Try-It requirements.  
Toys, Games, and other Fun Stuff
includes the entire Web site, plus instructions for reusing materials for the following—>
Make Sidewalk Chalk
Play Catch Scoop a Ball
Make a Mancala Game
Create a Snow Globe
Build a Rod Puppet
Make a Candy Box Guitar
Make Maracas
Create a Folk Art Doll
Tell a Tale with a Tangram
Other Fun Stuff includes games and puzzles such as environmental word searches.  

click for larger imageHoliday Art and Crafts, Part II includes the entire Web site, plus instructions for reusing materials for making gifts and celebrating various holidays and seasons. They are as follows—>  Design a Miniature Float
Decorate an Easter Egg (Picture)
Make a Pop Art Book
Shrink Some Plastic
Tie and Dye a T-shirt II
Make a Booksafe
Create a Photo Frame
Make Prints with Leaves
Wrap a God's Eye
Fold a Gift Box
 

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