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70 Quick SWAP Ideas: - Girl Scout SWAPS by Washington Rock Girl Scout Council
1. Little creatures made out of smooth stones or nuts with painted or felt features. 2. Bunnies made from a clothespin; wiggle eyes and pom-poms 3. Cloth trefoils: green material cut into trefoils; write troop # and even name on the trefoil 4. Needlepoint designs on plastic canvas cut into various shapes 5. Bookmarks made of clear contact paper over pictures, or colorful contact paper/felt 6. Felt animal shapes 7. Caterpillars- rubber band, pipe cleaner, wiggle eyes; wrap pipe cleaner around rubber band and pencil. Attach one end of rubber band to pipe cleaner, pull of pencil. Add eyes 8. Shell jewelry or shell animals 9. Wood or ceramic shapes with troop or event information 10. Pin eye; take pierced earring back, glue on pony bead and wiggle eyes 11. Packing bead creatures: decorate packing beads with sequins and paint 12. Tongue depressor and plastic spoons can be made into people or decorated with potpourri 13. Noodles can be painted and strung together put onto large safety pins 14. Origami animals 15. Creatures made from pom-poms and wiggle eyes 16. Small wallpaper fans 17. Write haiku poems on small squares of paper, cover in clear contact paper, punch hole in corner and attach a ribbon 18. Make designs from perler beads, add string or pin 19. Paper snowflakes covered in clear contact paper 20. Friendship knots 21. Ribbon bows with pin attached 22. Birthday candles tied with ribbon and pin attached 23. Gods eyes made with toothpicks and embroidery floss 24. Finger puppets 25. Tissue paper flowers 26. Paper beads strung on a string 27. Pony beads on a large safety pin, attached to a small safety pin 28. Small macramé or crocheted items 29. Caterpillars: place two different colored halves of pipe cleaners side by side. Wind around pencil. Slide off and glue small wiggle eyes to one end. Safety pin should be put in between the coils. You can turn this into a bee by adding wings. 30. Rainbows: use red, yellow, blue & green pipe cleaners cut into thirds. Place in rainbow order then twist the ends together. Curve into rainbow shape. Glue a cotton ball to each end as a cloud 31. Candy cane: use red and white pipe cleaners cut into thirds. Twist into candy cane swirl. Curve the top. Add tiny ribbon bow 32. Butterflies: accordion fold rectangles of pretty paper (gift wrap is great). Pinch paper in the middle, bend one third of a pipe cleaner around and give a twist at the top. Curve the ends of the pipe cleaner around a pencil point for a nice touch. Fluff out the wings 33. Peanuts sprayed by leader with polyurethane, glue on wiggle eyes and pinto beans for nose. Glue colored pom-pom on for wig 34. Teddy Graham cookies: spray with metallic paint, glue on felt tabs to look like medals 35. Plastic canvas cut into rainbow shapes. Weave lanyard lacing through holes 36. Make magic wands out of Popsicle sticks 37. Wallpaper fans with rosettes from fabric store and ribbon glued on 38. Plastic canvas cut into rectangles: make flags by weaving yarn of different colors 39. Bracelets made from pony beads threaded onto pipe cleaners. Twist ends together to conceal in bead 40. M&M candies wrapped in colored cellophane and tied with ribbon 41. Hersheys kisses made from foil, with troop # written on paper tag 42. Take a plastic spoon, put a chocolate kiss in each, wrap in plastic and tie with ribbon. Attach a note: Here’s a spoonful of love and kisses for you 43. Make Oscar the Grouch: glue wiggle eyes to a green pom-pom glued to top of film can 44. Flashlight made of aluminum foil 45. Pizza slice of tan felt with colored scraps glued on 46. Beads on a piece of plastic lacing 47. Shrink art pieces 48. Pennants with troop # 49. Miniature camp items 50. Worry dolls 51. Miniature campfires; small twigs, twist together with red and yellow pipe cleaners for flames 52. Lanyards from plastic lacing 53. Mayflower ship; walnut shell half with small piece of play dough inside; toothpick and small paper for sail 54. Warm fuzzy pom-pom with wiggle eyes glued on, then glue pom-pom to felt feet 55. Miniature tomahawks; 4 sticks, yarn, feathers, sponge; cut damp sponge into rectangle, wrap yarn in a cris cross fashion, tie off in back. Glue feathers so they hang down. Sponge will harden when it dries 56. WOPAT bookmark: cut a felt strip and glue dots of felt in the colors of each world down the strip; W (red- Well being), O (yellow- Out of doors), P (blue- People), A (purple- Arts), and T (orange- Today and tomorrow). Or make a WOPAT creature using pom-poms 57. Five facet beads, one of each of the above colors with a green tri-bead at the bottom. Make the girls name the worlds before swapping 58. 35mm film container turned into first aid kit with band aid, etc, in it 59. Scraps of paper with stickers and plastic to make them waterproof 60. Butterfly made of bow tie noodle 61. Cute pins 62. Ribbon with your troop number on it 63. Scraps of strain tied in different knots 64. Styrofoam cup melted in oven turns into hat 65. Felt pieces in brown, tan & white to make mini smore 66. Bottle cap painted black with brown, yellow and white felt cut to look like bacon and eggs cooking in a frying pan 67. Small spools of thread, with a tag that says “We are SEW lucky to be Girl scouts!” add ribbon 68. Orange pom-pom with green leaf-shaped fabric glued on; note says “Orange you glad to be a Girl Scout?” Can use larger pom-poms and make jack-o-lanterns 69. Make a leader swap by cutting 4x4 pieces of fabric. Put a couple tsp. of bath salts in and tie with green and white ribbon. Attach note that says “Calgon...take me away” Great swap after a long weekend 70. Take mini-clothespins, paint with acrylic paints to look like Girl Scouts; drill through the sides where the arms should be and string with a bead in between the clothespins. Nice to make for leaders by making them the age level they are leading |
