Service Project for Girl Scouts

So Bret's troop has gone from 9 girls to 18 girls. While Brenda's troop has gone from 11girls (two years ago) to 5 girls (last year) to just Brenda working as a Juliette without a troop.

One of the leaders has a husband doctor going to Belise for a few months to do some service work. He does this every few years. Our local troops are pitching in to put together school packs for the kids. I said I would be in charge of making 100 drawstring bags to put all the glue, paper, pencils, sharpeners, etc. into. Well I said my troop would be. And I would teach them to sew the bags. That was before I knew our troop would be 18 kids!! There is no way we have enough time for this project in this troop.

So Brenda asked if she could do it as her service project to earn her silver award. Her troop earned their Bronze award a few years ago setting up a book drive for a local church reading program. This project she would have to earn all on her own (so to speak). She has washed, ironed, and cut yards and yards of fabric. Tomorrow she begins the sewing process. The total project from beginning to end should take at least 40 hours to be considered for the Silver Award. She insisted she would like to try to focus on it and complete it in a week's time. Since it is due in January, I say let's do it in the first week, not the last...

 

UPDATE:

 

And now it is time to sew...