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None of that. My daughter did crafts and went on a couple of field trips with the parents to a play and a nature walk.  My son went fishing, worked with wood and tools, did more survival type activities and had field trips to places like battle fields and the police station. I was just saying DD would have enjoyed the boy's activities more so maybe Girl Scouts, or her troop, isn't a good fit. [/quote]

So you might be a parent who would agree that the current Cub Scout program would be useful to your daughter?

Third Grade (Bear) Required Adventures (badgework):  (These are mandatory so all dens should be doing these)

- knife skills, whittling (Bear Claws)
- camping with family and den (Bear Adventures)
- religion (Duty to God) 
- naturalist skills (Fer Feathers Ferns)
- tools, building stuff (Baloo the Builder)
- flag ceremonies, emergency plans, famous Americans, police/fire visit, (Duty to Country)

plus at least one elective Adventure

games
fishing
cooking
American Indians
pets
forensic science
physics
marbles
laughter
robotics
swimming/boating/water safety
science 
sound

http://www.scouting.org/filestore/cubscouts/pdf/Bear_Addendum.pdf

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My son was in 3rd grade last year. Those are the activities my daughter was watching and loved. They did that plus more.  [/quote]

I was a Junior Girl Scout leader with a 3rd grade troop.   We did a lot of those activities, too... only some of which were part of the "official" badgework or program.  The rest we had to scrounge around and find retired badges from the old (excellent!) junior badge work, find Council's Own badges from other states, or just do it ourselves not for a badge but just because it was important.  It's certainly possible to do these things with your Girl Scout troop but the programming doesn't make it easy or standard that all troops will do this.

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