Girl Scout Leader’s Day

Parents, let your daughter's leader know she's appreciated!
Say “thank you” to your Girl Scout Leader!

Girl Scout Volunteer Recognition Week is April 18-23 and we would like to say thank you to all of GSWPA volunteers. Check out the ideas below to celebrate these special people!

And of course, remember to take some time to recognize yourself as a volunteer, too!

  • Download and print a Girl Scout thank you card
  • Insert a thank you into an email (JPEG or PDF)
  • Send an e-card as a thank you
  • Nominate someone for a Volunteer Recognition Award
  • Create a slide show of your troop in action and share it with your troop volunteers and service unit manager or team via email, at your troop meeting or on a CD
  • Nothing says "thank you" better than sharing success
  • Have your girls create a thank you card for your service unit leadership and/or troop volunteers
  • Post a "thank you" on Facebook, Twitter or your service unit website
  • If you don't already, lend support in a troop activity
  • Have a song played on the radio dedicated to her
  • Bake a cake, dinner or make her favorite treat
  • Make a gift as a small token of your appreciation
  • Create a troop cheer for your leader
  • Dedicate a service project to your leaders
  • Design and present a special award or certificate
  • Do a good deed or random act of kindness for your leader or her family
  • Give your leader movie passes or a coupon for dinner out
  • Have a picture taken of the entire troop for your leader
  • Make a contribution in your leader’s honor to Girl Scouts Western Pennsylvania
  • Make yard signs that say “A great Girl Scout Leader lives here!"
  • Place an ad in your community newspaper thanking your leaders
  • Write a letter to the editor about everything your leader inspires in you
  • Plan a surprise “thank you” party, potluck or tea (and invite the parents!)
  • Announce Girl Scout Leader’s Day in your church’s bulletin
  • Create a display about Girl Scout Leaders for your local library
  • Involve religious and community representatives in recognizing Girl Scout Leaders
  • Send flowers or balloons
  • As a troop, purchase a Girl Scout Leader’s Day patch for your leader
  • Create a scroll with a thank you proclamation signed by the whole troop
  • Hang up signs in your community that say, “Thank You, Girl Scout Leaders!”
  • Display a thank you poster on their mailbox or house door and tie balloons to it
  • Take a leader’s picture and send it to the newspaper with a thank you caption
  • Record girls thanking their leaders as PSAs at local radio stations
  • Organize a special outing for leaders to relax at the movies, theatre, sporting event, spa, etc.
  • Give a mug full of chocolate hugs and kisses
  • In appreciation for the time given by volunteers, give the gift of thyme - decorate a terra cotta pot and plant thyme; or give dried thyme, thyme in olive oil or bread flavored with thyme
  • Make and present a scrapbook of the troop’s activities or individual scrapbook pages from each girl for their leader - include pictures or draw favorite memories and say why they like being a Girl Scout
  • Give a festively wrapped Girl Scout cookie box stuffed with thank-you notes from girls, families and others
  • Print each girl’s picture on fabric and make into a pillowcase or quilt. Use old scout t-shirts for some of the quilt squares. When finished, have the girls sign and date the quilt or pillowcase.
  • Have a group shot of the troop printed onto a t-shirt for their leader
  • Sit in a circle and each share “I’m happy you are my leader because…” or “My favorite Girl Scout memory is…”
  • Give her a magazine subscription of interest to her (crafts, Family Fun, or other interests)
  • Hire a cleaning service to clean your leader’s house
  • Have a picnic, and don’t let her do any work!
  • Write a poem or a song
  • Make a video of all the girls singing or each one saying thank you in her own special way
  • Ask your leader’s spouse what she really wants or needs
  • Weed her garden or mow her lawn
  • Give your leader a “shower” of luxury bath items or gourmet foods
  • Have pizza and a movie delivered to her house
  • Compose a recipe book with contributions from all the girls in their own words and pictures, and give it to her with samples
  • Buy her a rolling plastic crate; fill it with fun surprises or treats, but the crate is a great gift for a troop leader as well!
  • Shop for leader appreciation items at the Girl Scout shop nearest you
  • Make homemade coupons for your leader (i.e., free babysitting, service hours from other parents, casserole coupons - a parent can offer coupons for a casserole prepared in a disposable plan and delivered to the leader at the end of the troop meeting)
  • http://gsleaders.org/files/thisthat.htm
  • http://www.kidslist.uc.edu/gs/neil/recog_contents.html

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