Earn your Girl Scout Hiker Badge, which teaches you how to prepare for a hike. From learning which important items to pack to discovering what kinds of snacks are best for hiking trips, this badge activity is a great opportunity for your troop to enjoy nature and work as a team.

Learn more about the Girl Scout Hiker Badge and other outdoor awareness activities.

Access the Activities

• Visit: healthpoweredkids.org/login
• Username: gsrv
• Password: allinahealth

Earn the Allina Health Healthy Living Patch

Once Girl Scouts have completed two Health Powered Kids™ activities, please fill out this form and bring the confirmation email—on paper or on your phone—to a Girl Scout shop to redeem for a free limited edition patch. The patches will go fast, since only 2,000 are available.

Badge Requirements

Use these quick reference sheets to find the steps required for girls to earn badges, petals and leaves:

• Daisy Petal and Leaf Requirements
• Brownie Badge Requirements
• Junior Badge Requirements
• Cadette Badge Requirements
• Senior Badge Requirements
• Ambassador badge Requirements

Update: Program is Closed

Thank you to all of our stellar volunteers who helped us create activity plans. This program is now closed. If you have any questions about this program, please email us.

In order to make the troop planning process as easy as possible, River Valleys replaced Program Essentials with Planning Guides this year. The online, interactive guides help you customize your year as your girls become well-rounded leaders through Journey awards, badges and patches.

Each skill-building area offers a variety of ways to engage in learning and earning, from completing activity plans to attending special badge-earning events. Using your grade level’s online Planning Guide is the easiest and most efficient way to ensure your troop has a successful year. Each award includes links to activity plans, events, the Girl Scout Shop and other supporting resources.

While the Planning Guides make planning simpler, they still include the wide variety of activities and awards available through Girl Scouts. In order to help each girl make the most of her experience, we expect all River Valleys’ troops to use the Planning Guides to carry out their activities this year.

Check back in early 2013 for a new way to report on activities and earn pins.

You’re the Expert!

Do you have ideas for activities girls can do as they work towards badges and Journey awards? We invite you to submit your ideas using our online form or template.

Note: The print version of the Girl Scout Junior Planning Guide includes incorrect images of the Journey awards and the Bridging to Girl Scout Cadettes badge. The online images are accurate.

For Girls + Families

Our simplified navigation puts the stuff you’re looking for at your fingertips. Want to learn more about Girl Scouts? Ready to join now? Looking for activities, events and important dates? It’s all here.

For Troop Leaders

Designed as a comprehensive, interactive roundup of core plan “program essentials” content, our new Planning Guides offer activity plans and events for earning awards, badges and patches.

For Volunteers

To make the information in our volunteer guide more accessible, we created an online Volunteer Essentials area featuring section-by-section summaries, highlights and additional resources.

For Everyone

We hope you find some time to explore the new site. For help finding a page that’s in a new place, try the I’m Lost link at the top of the page. In the coming weeks, we’ll add new posts sharing more information about new features and content. Stay tuned!