Junior Program Listings  2007 - 2008   back to Programs     The following programs are offered by the Girl Scout Council of Cannon Valley. To register for a council sponsored program please fill out a Council Event Registration Form and return to the Girl Scout Council of Cannon Valley. Junior Programs - Year at a Glance   Junior Programs - Details   How to Register Program Registration Form

Low Ropes Adventure

Is your troop looking for a bonding experience to start off the troop year?  You may want to take advantage of the low ropes challenge course.  Spend time getting to know and trust each other as you use teamwork to complete different elements on this course.  Elements include the Spider’s Web, Giant’s Finger, Traversing wall, and Bosun’s Chair.

*Bring a bag dinner for Tuesday and Thursday evening dates

Geocaching and Letterboxing

Come and try some new ways of going on a scavenger hunt.  Letterboxing originated in England long ago and involves following a set of clues to find a container with a special stamp.  You’ll also create your own personal stamp to use.  Geocaching is a world wide fad.  It also involves finding something, this time by using latitude and longitude coordinates that you input into a Global Positioning System (GPS) unit. Find the ‘cache’, and you’re rewarded with a prize

*Bring a bag dinner for Tuesday and Thursday evening dates

Worldwide Day of Play

Let’s empower all kids from 6-14 to turn off their TV’s and engage in active, healthy, fun play.  Take some time and play with us on Nickelodeon’s Worldwide Day of Play.  Some of the activities we’ll be doing are building sandcastles, playing tag, running relay races, doing an obstacle course, playing soccer, parachute games and so many more.  Girls will receive a participation patch and a snack.

Badge Busters

Join Carleton College Girl Scouts and other volunteers for a fun filled afternoon of learning and earn a badge.  Badge and snack included.  Check our website in the fall, additional dates and topics might be added.

MEA Day Camp

Come out to camp for some fun in the crisp fall air.  Bring some friends or come by yourself.  Your day will begin at 8:30am with songs, games and a flag ceremony.  Each day will bring a new adventure to have and new friends to meet.  At the end of the day we’ll wind down with an all-camp game and a closing flag ceremony.  By the time you leave at 4:30pm you’ll be exhausted from all the fun.  Take a sneak peek at what we have brewing so far: Thursday, Kayaking, Geo-caching, Candle Making, Nature Hike, and Ropes Course.  Friday, Canoeing, Archery, Dream Catchers, Fire Building and Smore’s, and Teamplay Tubes.
All girls will need to arrange their own transportation and bring a bag lunch.  We’ll provide the qualified staff, all the activities, and two snacks each day.

Harvest Festival

Celebrate autumn at our amazing harvest festival! Hayrides, straw pile searches, and pumpkin hunts will abound!  Work an apple press to make cider, race wheelbarrows, compete in the pumpkin roll relay, and enter the scarecrow contest with your troop.  Sample the many different flavors of the autumn harvest.

Halloween Family Walkabout

Bring the whole family out to camp for a great fall experience.  Build scarecrows, make crafts, tour a haunted house, take a hay ride, and much more.

Holiday Happenings

Get ready for the holidays by creating some fun crafts.  During the afternoon you can create gift bags, gift tags, and cards using all kinds of different techniques.  We’ll use die cuts, punches, stamps and more.  You can keep the items for yourself or use them as unique holiday gifts.

Fencing
En garde! Learn the fine art of fencing. Receive professional instruction in the use of an epee (fencing sword). Enjoy learning the basics, and in no time you will be sparring like a pro.  Girls receive a participation patch.

Geocaching
Introducing a new way to hunt for treasure!  Learn the basics of Global Positioning System (GPS) technology. After mastering the buttons and basic functions of the GPS unit, use it to hunt through the park for hidden treasures.

Little Red Riding Hood

This funny and enchanting re-telling of Charles Perrault’s classic fairy tale is a great way to introduce youngsters to the fun and magic of live theater – complete with music, colorful costumes, marvelous sets and professional actors. This performance will be held exclusively for the Girl Scout Council of Cannon Valley. After the show the actors and actresses will be available for questions and autographs.  Participation patch included for all Girl Scouts.

Water Park of America

No Chills & All Thrills await you at America's Biggest Indoor Water Park Hotel. Surf on Minnesota's only Flow Rider Surf Simulator, catch a wave in the Lake Superior wave pool or challenge your fears in America's longest indoor family raft ride at ten stories tall and over a mile long!  Come and enjoy the water park and spend the night.  Rooms can sleep up to 6 people. Each room will receive 4 water park passes. Water park passes are valid for 24 hours from the time of check-in. Up to 2 additional passes per room can be purchased at the park for an additional $25.00 per pass. 

Science Sparks    

Join presenters from the Bakken Museum in Minneapolis as they bring science to you. They will bring along some great hands-on science projects.  Girls will use what they learn and make their own project to take home.

Bronze Award Workshop

Interested in the Bronze Award, but don’t know where to start.  This workshop for girls and troop leaders will go over the basics of earning the Bronze Award.  We’ll play a couple games to help girls as well as adults understand what the Bronze Award is all about.

Skateville Family Fun

Come with your troop or family and enjoy a Girl Scout skating party!  Fees include roller-skate rental, a hot dog, pop, and chips.  You’ll also receive a free pass to come back and skate again. Girls must be chaperoned by an adult. 

Snow Shoeing at River Bend Nature Center

River Bend staff will help you get started by giving instruction and playing some games, then you’ll be on your own to explore the beautiful scenery at River Bend Nature Center.  There are miles of trails to conquer!  A participation patch is included.  When you’re finished, come inside and enjoy cookies and hot chocolate.  Come with your troop or spend the afternoon with mom or dad.  Snowshoes are provided.

Snow Shoeing at Hyland Park

Experience a real winter getaway as you learn about the history and designs of snowshoes.  Strap on a pair of snowshoes for an exhilarating guided hike through the snow-covered woods. Snowshoes and participation patch provided.

Camp Fun Days

Ever wonder what Camp Singing Hills is all about?  Here’s your chance to find out.  Spend a couple of hours playing camp games, singing camp songs, and learning about everything else that you might do at camp.

Lights, Camera, Action

Come and be a star and showcase your talents to your family and friends or discover talents you didn’t know you had.  Playmakers is coming to help you create and perform a play complete with costumes and props.  Each girl will receive a part in the play, rehearse, and be ready for show time.  Girls will earn part of their Theater Badge.  Family and friends are invited to see the performance at the end of the class.  The performance lasts about 20 minutes.

X-Country Skiing

Experience one of Minnesota’s favorite winter sports, a fun whole body workout.  This beginner’s classic ski class covers: striding, stopping, uphill and downhill techniques, and poling.  Practice your skills on a ski trail.  Ski rental needs to be paid at the park the day of the class ($4.00 per person).

Dolphins Dark to Dawn at the MN Zoo

If your group would like to sleep with the dolphins, this program is for you. In Dolphins: Dark to Dawn, you will spend all night with one of our naturalists. You will learn all about dolphins and sharks in the wild, as well as those here at the Minnesota Zoo. Learn to identify our sharks and each of our Bottlenose dolphins by name.  Go behind the scenes and watch a private dolphin training session. Everyone will sleep beside the dolphins in the underwater viewing area!  A snack, breakfast, T-shirt, patch and admission to the zoo the next day is all included.

Underwater Adventures

Come to Underwater Adventures and sleep with the sharks.  The overnight includes aquarium exploration, crafts, pizza, behind-the-scenes adventures, breakfast and more!  You will sleep in one of the four exhibits – Fisherman’s Hollow, Turtleapolis, Shark Cove, or Rainbow Reef. Girls will receive an “I slept with the sharks” souvenir t-shirt.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 

With a crash of drums and a flash of light, Joseph explodes onto Chanhassen's Main Stage in his dazzling coat of many colors! In a new staging of the record-breaking production, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber's family classic is ready to excite a whole new generation.  This colorful retelling of the biblical story about Joseph, his uncanny abilities to interpret dreams and his designer coat, sings out to young and old alike with a score filled with wall-to-wall hits including: "Close Every Door," "Any Dream Will Do," "Those Canaan Days," "Go, Go, Go Joseph" and dozens more. 

Winter Fun Day

Come celebrate winter at Elm Creek Park Reserve, where we make our own snow!   Enjoy cross-country skiing, snow tubing, polar putting, brrr bowling, broomball, medallion hunts, and more! Cross-country ski rentals are available and can be paid for at the beginning of the lesson ($4.00).  All other equipment provided.  See below listings for more Winter Fun Day options.

Winter Fun Day w/Downhill Ski or Snowboard Option

Want even more fun at Winter Fun Day?  Sign up for the downhill skiing or snowboard option.  You’ll still be able to enjoy the activities listed above! Cost of 1.5 hour lesson, equipment, and lift pass included in fee. 

Winter Wilderness Weekend

Enjoy the winter with a “cabin campout” at the Baker Near-Wilderness Settlement, a small camp of eight cabins and a large heated multi-purpose lodge near Maple Plain.  Sleep in rustic cabins equipped with wood-burning stoves, lanterns, and bunks with mattresses.  In the main lodge there is a full service kitchen available for lunch on Saturday and breakfast on Sunday morning.  Saturday night we’ll cook dinner together.  Activities will include snowshoeing, a survival challenge, building snow shelters, a craft and more.  The Baker Near-Wilderness Settlement will provide all firewood needed for heating as well as all supplies needed if you choose to cook outside over a campfire, all cabins have an outside fire ring.  Refrigeration is available.  Participants are responsible for their own meal planning and food.  Cabins sleep 8; depending on the size of the troop you may be sharing a cabin with another troop.  All cabins must have 2 adults.

Sky Search Overnight at the Bell Museum

This program is an adventure into the mysteries of space and will complete the requirements for the Sky Search Badge.  The program begins as we meet a University of Minnesota graduate student who studies astronomy.  We will find out what astronomers do and what they have learned.  We will also see a slide show of different planets in our solar system.  We will then examine a telescope and, if it is a clear night, use it to look at stars and planets.  We will even make a star map, invent our own constellations and look at some real meteorites.  It will be a fascinating and busy night.  Sky Search badge included.

Spots not Stripes

If you’re working on or have completed the Zink the Zebra patch program between March 2007 and February 2008 you will be invited to a special day of fun and learning.  There will be games, activities, crafts and snacks.  Girls will earn their Zink Acceptance patch bar.

Welch Village Ski and Snowboard

Here’s your chance to hit the slopes and learn how to ski and snowboard.  You will receive a lesson on skis or snowboard or both. Then choose which one you’d like to try for the day.  Come as a troop or with your family. Try-It and Badge information packets will be available.  Cost includes lift ticket, equipment rental and one lesson.  Additional lesson and / or equipment change available for $10.00.  (Cost for lift ticket only is $30.00 per person).

The Great Girl Scout Climb

Are you ready for an adventure? Don’t miss this opportunity to try indoor rock climbing. Vertical Endeavors is one of the largest indoor rock climbing facilities in the world. With over 18,200 square feet of climbing surface, Vertical Endeavors is the place to climb! Over 60 separate ropes provide hundreds of climbing routes.  There’s a great beginner area as well as areas for experienced climbers.  Adults attending will be assisting girls with equipment.  Participation patch included.

Earth Day 2008

Come celebrate Earth Day 2008 with St. Olaf students and the Minnesota Zoo’s Zoomobile. The Zoomobile brings a variety of animals for an exciting and educational program. Bring a sack lunch and dress for other fun indoor and outdoor activities. A participation patch is included. 

Go Primitive

Throw spears! Make your own rope! Start a fire without matches!  Discover the amazing outdoor skills that once linked all ancient people around the world.  Test your skills, could you have survived?

Lost

Whether you are shipwrecked on a desert island or stranded in the Canadian Wilderness, there are skills you must know in order to survive and be rescued.  Come immerse yourself in different scenarios and learn how to be a survivor.

Minnesota Children’s Museum Camp-In

Join the fun at the museum!  Enjoy workshop, playing and sleeping in the Museum’s six galleries packed with hands on adventure!  Meet new friends from all over Minnesota and Wisconsin.  Every camper receives a participation patch.  Dinner, snack, continental breakfast and free parking included.

MN Science Museum Camp-In

Imagine a campground filled with a giant movie screen, high-tech exhibits, extraordinary science activities, laser beams, a live theatre production, perhaps a snake you can touch, and maybe even the chance to sleep next to a dinosaur.  Pizza dinner, breakfast, and patch included.

Celebrate Earth Day

Celebrate our green planet and make it a better place to live. Plant trees, pick up litter, play earth friendly games, have a picnic, compete in a recycling race, make crafts, and more!  Daisy troops will partner with older troops in order to learn what it means to be an earth-friendly Girl Scout.

Minnesota Zoo Pigs in PJ’s Overnight

Explore the Wells Fargo Family Farm in this funky farm overnight adventure. Interact with cows, pigs, sheep, goats, horses and even a farm keeper or two during this agricultural extravaganza. Learn how farmers care for their animals and explore how farm products get from the farm to the grocery store. We will wake up early to watch a cow get milked and get our hands dirty helping the farm keepers prepare for the day. Breakfast is provided. T-shirt, patch, and Zoo admission on Saturday is included in the cost of the program.  Parking fees additional.

What’s Up with Wildlife?

Spend the afternoon investigating what’s up with wildlife.  River Bend Nature Center naturalists will lead you through all the activities you need to earn your Wildlife Badge.  Bring a bag lunch and dress for the weather, badge included.

Who:	Junior Girl Scouts
When:	Saturday, April 26th, 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Where:	River Bend Nature Center, Faribault
Cost:	$10.00 per Girl Scout, adults free
Deadline:	Capacity of 60 or April 10th, 25 minimum

Me and My Guy Spring Fling

Bring your dad, uncle or grandpa out to camp for a weekend of fixin' up fun.  Spend time learning and doing some tricks of the trade as you help get camp ready for the summer.  Learn to use a drill, paintbrush, hammer and broom.  You'll also get a chance to do some fun camp activities as well -- archery, crafts, and canoeing.

Math and Science Day

Join the Women in Math and Science (WhIMS) from Carleton and explore the wonders of math and science.  Participate in fun hands-on activities and experiments in areas such as chemistry, biology, geology, and more. Bring a bag lunch. A participation patch is included.

Girl Scout Rendezvous

Tour Historic Murphy’s Landing at your own pace and meet costumed interpreters in at least six different businesses or homes.  Participate in hands-on activities, explore Minnesota history, play pioneer games, go on a pioneer scavenger hunt, and take a ride on the horse drawn wagon.  Curriculum packets are available with the self-guided walking tour. Bring a sack lunch.

Hooting and Howling Overnight

Come down to the Minnesota Zoo and join a naturalist for a hooting and howling good time learning about the animals and plants that call Minnesota their home.  During the evening you will meet a keeper as they explain the mysteries of the gray wolf and their current status in Minnesota.  Through hands-on activities you will discover the relationships Minnesota animals have within an ecosystem and how these animals have special adaptations to help with their survival.  You will also take a look at the many trees that provide the animals their home.  All requirements for the Earth Connections Badge will be met. (Badge not included.)  Includes snack, breakfast, t-shirt, and admission to the Zoo the next day.

Him & Me Fishing Spree

Hook your dad, grandpa, or other favorite guy and spend some time fishing.  Learn the basics of fishing, proper casting techniques, how to bait a hook, and to identify common Minnesota fish.  Plenty of time will be available to practice your new skills along the shoreline.  Girls will receive a participation patch.  Fishing licenses are not required for the girls.  Adults attending will be assisting the girls, adults are welcome to fish if you bring your own equipment and have a current fishing license.

Camp Pepin Adventures

Looking for some outdoor excitement? Get a start on the Finding Your Way, Small Craft, and Adventure Sports Badges all in one day! Your adventures at Camp Pepin will include canoeing, conquering the climbing tower, and orienteering.  Bring a bag lunch and dress for the weather.

Beginning Kayaking

Come and learn the basics of kayaking, including paddle strokes and water safety with the friendly, knowledgeable instructors from Three Rivers Park District.  Enjoy a paddle along Hyland Lake’s shore.  Bring a change of clothes and shoes that can get wet. 

Canoeing Basics

Learn canoeing skills in this beginner’s class, including equipment selection, basic strokes, and getting in and out of the canoe without tipping!  Try out your new skills canoeing on the lake.  (Only one adult per troop may sign up to canoe; adult may duff.)

Scuba Diving

Discover Scuba Diving.  In this intro class you’ll learn general scuba skills and concepts, both in and out of the water.  A signed waiver and parent permission are required.  Patches are available for an additional $2.00 per patch.

Washington D.C.
In the summer of 2009, the council will be taking a trip to Washington DC.  Girls currently in 6th grade and older along with their adult chaperone are eligible to attend this trip.  For more information or to add your name to the contact list email Cori (cori@gsccv.org) at the council service center.  There will be a planning meeting in the spring of 2008. Watch council mailings and our website for more details.

www.gsccv.org
Check the website often for council updates and new programs. 

In addition to the council programs listed here the council receives information from numerous places offering programs for Girl Scouts.  This information is posted on the website under Programs, “Programs offered by other Girl Scout Councils and Organizations”. 

Girl Scout Council of Cannon Valley
1025 Highway 3 North
Northfield, MN 55057
(507) 645-6603 or (800) 344-4757
secretary@gsccv.org