Girl Scout Cadette Silver Award Resources for Leaders

Updated September 2022

What is the Cadette Girl Scout Silver Award?

There are three levels of Girl Scout Awards-the Bronze (earned when girls are in Junior troops), the Silver (earned when girls are Cadettes) and Gold (an individual project girls must complete before they graduate high school). While leaders do have a hand in helping the girls earn the highest award at this level, they are truly a guide at the side. 

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First, the girl must complete at least one of the three Journeys at this level. Then the girls have to pick a project that they want to work on alone or with a group. There is a lot of planning that goes on with this, but as an older girl, she needs to stand on her own two feet to figure out what will work and what will not. These projects are meant to "make the world a better place", an integral part of the Girl Scout Promise. Once the plan is complete and put into action, then the girl has to fill out paperwork, give it to her leader, and then celebrate her accomplishment!

Please note that every Council is different. What may be approved in one Council may not be in another. Each finished project has had the paperwork signed and completed, and what you are reading are the results of those efforts.

Cadette Silver Award Ideas

If your troop wants to earn this award, here are dozens of ideas for you to try.

• Clothing Giveaway
  This is what one troop did after their aMaze Journey to earn their Silver Award.
• 4 More Ideas from Girls Working on Their Own or in Pairs
• 50 Silver Award Ideas
  Give your girls this list and they should be able to find something that speaks to them.
• Girl Empowerment Camp
• Creating a Golf Program for Kids
• Creating a Family Space in a Hospice Center
• Outer Banks History Center
• Project for Cat or Dog Lovers
• Another Animal Lover Project
• Making a Cat Tree

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• Project for a DIY'er
• Creating a Gaga Pit
• Food Allergy Awareness
• Building a Bird Garden
• Creating Good Night Blankets
• Girls Health Project
• Creating a Living Wall (Vertical Garden)
• Creating a Buddy Bench
• Anti-Bullying Project
• Improve Math Skills for Kids
• Domestic Abuse Shelter Library Project
• Bilingual Readers Resource Database 

       One Girl Scout created a database of over 1,400 Spanish language books for her local library system

• Kitchen Renovation

       This trip of Cadettes helped renovate a church kitchen

• Literacy and Displaced Persons Silver Award Project

       How one girl created a library cart of school supplies and books for displaced people.

• Real Troop Ideas
  This is a listing of real Silver Award ideas that other Girl Scout troops have accomplished.
• 34 Silver Award Ideas from one YouTube video
• 10 Ideas from the Girl Scout of Western Washington
• 8 Silver Award Projects With a Twist 

       This post is from the Girl Scouts of Western Washington shares the actual projects of eight different troops or girls.