Cookie sales are coming up, so I figured it was about time to update M's sash. Official troop designation, membership stars, and badges earned for projects go on the front. The top set of badges is the World of Water journey set, and the bottom ones are stand-alone badges.
Patches from fun activities, or other small rewards go on the back. Most of these are from cookie sales or summer camp.
Things I have learned:
1. We're a little conservative in what we ask the girls to put on their uniforms. This sash, for example, doesn't have a flag. Madeleine doesn't have extra reward pins. (She should have one more membership star, though.) We don't have a troop crest. She is still running out of room. I mean, that's cool - that a bunch of badges for a year and a half in Brownies.
1b. But sashes - they kind suck. Maybe back int eh day when the badges were smaller and circular, but these triangular things are hard to get on there looking organized and neat. If the troop earns all the badges I think they should earn by the end of the year, I'm not sure they will all fit.
I think the vests also just stay on the girls better - they are much easier to wear.
From here on out, it is vests!
2. Badge magic seems to work. (Badge magic is like double-sided sticky tape for badges.) The badges seem secure, although we'll have to see how they wear. A down side is, you can't combine ironing and badge-magic, because you aren't supposed to iron badge-magic, so now that I've started down this path I'm sort of stuck.
I think sewing is probably the best way, but I don't like sewing through the iron-on adhesive that comes on the badges.
I'm sort of proud of our girls, though - look at all that stuff they've done!
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