Resource Center

The following items can be borrowed through the Resource Center. 

Please call (937) 275-7601 to check for an item's availability.

Programs In a Box

NOTE: Each kit provides ideas and supplies for activities related to the theme. Some kits also include sample projects when something is made.

• Birds, Care About Nature: songs, appearances, and behavior of birds

• Vintage Clothes Through the Years: clothes from the past to go along with Try-It Brownie Girl Scouts through the years.

• Cassette Player: can be used with cassettes we have and to be used with the Star Gazing Kit

• Disability Awareness: Various activities to show how girls with disabilities feel. It addresses several disabilities.

• Dress Up Box: Contains several fancy outfits, purses, jewelry. Idea to use with programs like Looking Your Best (Junior) or Let’s Pretend (Brownie)

• Egypt – Ancient Adventure.

• Fill the Bill, Care About Nature: birds’ diets and eating habits

• Focus on Ability: This box is to go along with the book Focus on Ability: Serving Girls with Special Needs

• GirlSports: box of equipment for sports, plus game and instruction book

• Insects, Bugs, Spiders: study of bugs, insects, spiders

• International Flag Sets: Tiny table-top international flag sets and large hanging flag sets for ceremonies such as Thinking Day.

• Leather Program: box of supplies to work with leather

• Lemmy Sticks: a chant and patterned movement game with wooden sticks from New Zealand and Native Americans

• Looking Your Best: Junior Looking Your Best Badge

• Luau Decorations: various decorations with a Luau theme

• Magnifying Glasses: these can be used for camping activities or other activities

• Manners: Brownie Manners Try-It

• Math Fun: for the Math Fun Try-It, especially requirements 1, 3, 4, 6

• Math Whiz: for the Math Whiz for Badge, especially requirements 2, 3, 5, 8

• Nature Scavenger Hunt: lists and marking pencils for an outdoor scavenger hunt

• Oceans, Care About Nature: activities related to the oceans, especially seashells, coral reefs, aquatic animals, and conservation issues

• Parachute Games: game with large parachutes and balls; girls stand in a circle and move the parachute together

• Patriotism: information about Ohio, United States, the flag, flag folding, constitution

• Puppets, Dolls, & Plays: for the Try-It; samples are provided. Make 5 different puppets. All material is included.

• Rainforest Box: for various issues about rainforests and their conservation

• Rainstick Making Kit: small seeds or rice in a cardboard tube that sounds like rain when moved slowly

• Star Gazing Kit: indoor planetarium, with star maps for each of the four seasons

• Thinking Day: helps to celebrate the World Wide Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts

• Underground Railroad: for the Underground Railroad Patch; a box for each age Brownies, Juniors, Older Girls

• Uniform Fashion Show in a Box: has uniforms from the past along with a skit to describe them

• Uniform Fashion Show: Peeking at the Past: Girl Scout Uniforms from the past Brownie through Senior with a script for doing a fashion show.

• Zink the Zebra: This program uses video, puppets/beanies, and books to relate a story written by a girl who had cancer about cancer and about how differences are OK. Zink is a zebra with spots instead of stripes. Kits are age level appropriate.

Other kits are in the works and troops can donate kits to the Resource Center

Also available for check-out