Equipment Check Out

Volunteers can check out or rent program kits and other equipment from GSRV service centers for activities with girls. Use this form to reserve items, and contact your local service center for any questions about items or their availability.

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• Award, Ceremony + Presentation Supplies
• Camping Supplies
• Cookie + Product Sale Items
• Flags + Banners
• Inclusion Resources
• Other Supplies
• Sports + Outdoor Equipment
• OTTER Kits
• Program Kits

Award, Ceremony + Presentation Supplies

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Camping Supplies

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Cookie + Product Sale Items

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Flags + Banners

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Inclusion Resources

These items may be transported to other service centers for your troop’s use. Please allow two weeks for transportation.

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Other Resources

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Sports + Outdoor Equipment

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OTTER Kits

OTTER (Outdoor Tips & Tricks for Environmental Resource Stewardship) Kits are at all service centers.
Use any OTTERS kit to earn the OTTERS base patch, available in the council shop. Girls can earn add-on fish patches for every additional OTTERS kit completed.

Buggin’ Out

Brownie through Cadette

Activities about insects including scavenger hunts, inventing insects, and observing insects.

Cooperative Games

Junior + Cadette

Work together and think creatively with games that focus on fun for all instead of winners and losers. The activities can be done either outside or in an open space inside.

Introduction to Nature

Daisy through Cadette

Mix of quiet and active activities involving camouflage, animal recognition, predator/prey, and trivia games.

Nature Awareness

Daisy through Cadette

Use your senses of sight, touch, and smell in the out-of-doors. Best for hikes or backyard exploring, and includes creative writing activities.

Trees

Junior + Cadette

Learn how to tell the age of a tree and its life story, what it needs to survive, what may live in the tree, and write a poem about what you’ve learned. Some activities need to be done outside.

Wildlife Wonders

Daisy through Cadette

Investigate a variety of wildlife such as birds, moles, and other critters with active games and craft projects. Activities can be done inside. Some require a large play area.

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Program Kits

Program kits are available at all service centers.

Building + Architecture Program Kit

Daisy through Ambassador

Learn about architecture by trying a variety of activities from the Building Art Try-It, the Architecture Badge, and the Architecture and Environmental Design Interest Project Patch. Kit includes activity directions, resources, and many of the supplies needed to complete the awards.

Financial Literacy

Daisy through Ambassador

It is increasingly important for girls to become knowledgeable about basic financial information. The Girl Scout organization has historically been a leader in giving girls opportunities to learn and practice financial literacy and business skills. This kit includes a 1–1.5 hour program plan

Fitness Challenge Kit

Daisy through Ambassador

Learn about fitness by trying a variety of physical skills. The kit includes directions and most of the supplies for 8 activity stations.

Follow Me Girls

Daisy through Ambassador

Follow Me Girls history patch program offers troops or individual girls an opportunity to learn about the history of Girl Scouting in the USA and in Girl Scouts of Minnesota and Wisconsin River Valleys. A resource kit with activity materials is available at each service center for check out.

GirlSports Kit

Daisy through Ambassador

Includes activities, resources, and program materials to explore sports and women athletes. Activities include a variety of sports and specific techniques designed to teach girls skills and keep their bodies physically active.

Girls In Space Astronomy Kit

Daisy through Ambassador

Explore the night sky through a variety of hands-on activities. Each kit contains an astronomy curriculum, planispheres, a green laser, Galileoscopes, field guide books, moon maps, and much more. The curriculum will serve as both a comprehensive leader guide and instruction manual on how to utilize the equipment, instructions for the hands-on activities geared for multiple age-levels, and also an explanation of the science behind astronomy and the exploration.

Go Green Girl! Program Kit

Daisy through Ambassador

This kit is the starting point for troops interested in designing and implementing a service project to reduce waste in their community; as well as includes community resources that will help you and your troop to have less of an impact on the environment. This kit also contains the Go Green Girl! Tool Kit and Patch program information.

Healthy Relationships Program Kit

Junior + Cadette

Learn about issues related to friendship, bullying, respect, and inclusion by trying a variety of interactive and discussion-based activities. Includes directions and many of the supplies needed to complete the activities.

Magnets Kit

Daisy + Brownie

The Magnets Kit has materials and activity ideas to begin to explore magnetism in our world and how it relates to electricity.

Math Fun Kit

Daisy + Brownie

This kit contains materials for girls to explore math through a variety of fun and easy games and activities. Girls will investigate a variety of math topics beyond the realm of classroom math.

Physical Sciences Kit

Daisy through Cadette

Kit includes background information, activities, resources, and program materials for your troop to explore a variety of science areas related to matter and energy. Science areas are broken into suggested program grade levels but can be adapted for younger or older girls depending on your troop’s interests and abilities.

Program Aide Training Kit

Cadette through Ambassador

Girls explore the skills needed to lead younger girls at troop or Service Unit meetings, encampments, Council Sponsored events, and at day or resident camp. The training will help girls identify the skills and talents they can share with others. It will also give them tools for working with different age groups, giving clear directions, leading songs and games, and dealing with conflict resolution situations. Program copies are made by the facilitator.

Safety Program Kit

Daisy through Ambassador

The Safety Kit gives girls an opportunity to learn about and practice staying safe in a variety of situations.

Uniquely ME! Curriculum

Junior + Cadette

The Uniquely ME! kit includes program curriculum, activities, resources, and materials for your troop to address the challenges girls face in their daily lives. It has been designed to help girls build selfconfidence and self-esteem, develop healthy relationships, and take care of their bodies and minds.

Zink the Zebra

Daisy through Junior

This kit gives you the materials needed to complete The Zink the Zebra patch program. The patch program provides Girl Scouts with activities that demonstrate the importance of understanding and acceptance of themselves and others. It is designed to allow girls to learn positive strategies that can be used when confronted with situations where an individual may have a physical or perceived difference.

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