The Girl Scout Silver Award is the highest honor a Girl Scout Cadette can achieve.  Cadettes gain the confidence and skills that will catapult them to lifelong success by focusing on an issue they care about, learning the facts, and taking action to make a difference. 

Cadettes Mary and Sofia chose to help animals in their community to earn their Silver Awards. With the guidance of the HSLC Youth Volunteer Coordinator, Juli Bowman, the girls decided to make toys for dogs and cats as well as “adopt me” bandanas.

The girls spent time researching and developing instructions for making the toys and then collecting the supplies they needed. To their surprise, they received an overwhelming response from their neighborhood to provide the supplies.   They were able to make over 100 feathered wine cork toys for cats, over 80 fleece heart toys for dogs, and hundreds of bandanas.

Excess supplies were offered to other groups to use in the same way. HSLC will be able use the detailed directions the girls created for future youth volunteer activities.

Mary and Sofia told us the feather toys were well tested with their pets and, as you can see, one of our foster kittens totally agrees.

“We were so happy that we got to help pets in foster homes and connect with the community. We hope that our project will help the pets get adopted faster and give them something to play with while they wait in foster homes.”