TO KIDS FROM KIDS
A Girl Scout Holiday Service Project

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Participation

There are many ways your troop can help.

  • Each Girl Scout troop/group member or Juliette can donate a new gift.
    In San Mateo and San Francisco Counties, there is also an option to obtain a wish list and fullfill a specific child's wishes. See those pages for details.
  • Daisy, Brownie and Junior age Girl Scouts can make gift tags.
    • A tag is furnished with each gift donation.
    • Tags identify the gift as being from Girl Scouts.
    • The message should read: "Happy Holidays" or "Seasons Greetings."
    • Sign the tag using first name(s) of girl(s) and the Girl Scout Troop/Group number.
    • To make the tags:
      • Decorate index cards with crayons, stickers, stamps or foam shapes OR
      • Recycle old holiday cards by cutting pictures out with fancy scissors. Mount on construction paper, write message on back or between papers OR
      • Create cards on your computer
      • Final touches - punch a hole and string with curling ribbon.
  • Cadette, Senior, Studio 2B, and Juliette Girl Scouts in Grades 7-12 can volunteer for Distribution Day.
    There are opportunities to take the lead on Distribution Day or to speak to Associations about To Kids From Kids. The more involved girls become, the more they can:
    • improve their leadership and organizational skills,
    • develop their ability to confront and problem solve,
    • gain communication and presentation knowledge,
    • learn about team building, goal setting and decision making,
    • complete activities in age specific awards.
    Contact us if you are interested.
  • Any Girl Scout troop/group can do even more. Here are some things that have been done in past years:
    • Drop boxes have been set up at a schools or within the community (with prior permission) to collect gifts.
      Note: For your convenience, you can now download our Drop Box Information packet.
    • Members of one Cadette Girl Scout troop, as a Silver Award Project "Pennies from Heaven", set up jars to collect pennies from family and friends. They used the money to buy new basketballs for teens.
    • One group organized a potluck dinner with the "admission" being a donation of a new toy.
    • One troop made cosmetic baskets for teenage girls.
    • Several Cadette and Senior Girl Scouts hosted a spaghetti dinner and used all the money raised to purchase gifts.
  • Each year we need Adult Girl Scouts to serve as Site Coordinators. Contact us if you are interested.
Please note: if you are doing any fund raising activities, be sure to follow both "Safety-Wise" and your Council's guidelines, which specify what girls can do and what must be done by adults.
Generally, large businesses are not solicited because they may already contribute funding to Girl Scouting. If you have do have such a contact, please coordinate with the TKFK Committee so that we do not duplicate efforts.
Last update November 17, 2007