Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month during your Girl Scout Troop Meeting!

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As Girl Scouts, we are part of a sisterhood of Girl Scouts and Girl Guides from all around the world. As sisters, we should learn more about each other—our cultures, our history, and what makes us unique.

Between September 15 and October 15, use these ideas to incorporate Hispanic Heritage Month into your troop’s meetings and help your girls learn more about the cultures of their sister Girl Scouts and Girl Guides:
  • Learn about Hispanic Heritage Month. Why and how it is celebrated? Who founded it? When it was founded? What is the difference between Hispanic and Latino?
  • Develop an understanding and appreciation of the Hispanic culture through history, dance, and the arts. Work toward GSNC’s Hispanic Latino Task Cultural Patch Program.
  • Brownies can earn their Dancer badge while learning about history of the Hispanic-Latino dances and where they originated. (Some examples: Cha-Cha, Argentine Tango, Salsa, Pachanga, Merengue, Bachata, Samba, Bomba, etc.) **Special Bonus – This patch is available in the GSNC Shop for only $1 during the month of September.
  • Girl Scouts can explore diversity through dining while working toward GSNC’s Tastebuds Patch Program. Visit local restaurants that serve ethnic food and try something new. (Some examples: Dominican, Peruvian, Mexican, Colombian, Cuban, etc.) 
  • Learn about Girl Scouts’ and Girl Guides’ different World Centers specifically, Our Cabana in Mexico.
  • “Pot Lucks” are a long time Girl Scout favorite… host a troop “pot luck” and have each girl make a dish or snack for a Hispanic country. Girls should be able to educate her troop on the dish and the region the dish originates from. Bonus, this can help Cadettes work toward their New Cuisines badges, Juniors work toward their Simple Meals badge, and Brownies work toward their Snacks badge.
  • Trees. Trees. Trees. Explore the trees and plants that are native to Central and South America. This can help Cadettes work toward their Trees badge.
  • Explore different styles of paintings and artists from Hispanic culture. Explore Mexican Folk Art and/or learn about the Day of the Dead/Dia De Los Muertos by making art inspired by this holiday in Mexican culture. This can help Juniors earn their Drawing badge and Brownies earn their Painting badge. GSNC Girl Scouts can make shadow boxes and learn about this traditional holiday during our Shadow Boxes: Celebrating the Day of the Dead/ El Dia de los Muertos program on 10/25/2019. 
  • Juniors who are working toward their Musician badge can learn about Latin music including the origins of the rain sticks found in South American and Dominican pan pipes.

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