Let Valentine’s Day be another chance for a service project. Let the girls make Valentine Cards for a senior citizens home. Everybody needs to receive a Valentine Card.
Homemade cards don’t need to be expensive, use scrap cardstock, ribbon, or stickers. Use heart cookie cutters to cut heart shapes. Take the girls on a field trip to a local scrapbooking store to pick up some supplies. They may even get to use the die cutters in the stores, and scrapbooking stores usually have lots of ideas to get you started.

Heart Shaker Card
White Cardstock
Red and Pink Cardstock
Valentine Patterned Paper
Small Heart Shapes from Cardstock
Tulle

• Cut one 11 x 8 1/2 piece of white cardstock in two (makes two cards). Fold in half. Cut a piece of patterned paper to cover front of card.
• Using a square punch cut a square on the right hand side of patterned paper.
• Using heart punch cut pink and red hearts.
• Glue piece of tulle around three edges and place where cut square will be. Insert cut hearts and glue last edge of tulle to card.
• Glue patterned paper to card and shake your card.

Upcoming Cookie Sale Dates

January 23 through March 20
Girls can continue to take orders from customers. Your troop cookie manager can help you get the extra cookies you need to fill the orders.

February 5-16
Cookies are delivered. Your troop cookie manager will notify you when and where you should pick up your cookies.

February 18 through March 20
Cookie shops are available to troops. Check with your troop cookie manager or troop leader to have your girls sell at a cookie shop in front of a business, which is a great way for girls to learn new skills and supplement sales.

March 20
All cookie money is due to the troop cookie manager.

May
Recognitions will be distributed to troops after the second week in May. If you do not receive your recognitions by May 31, contact your troop cookie manager.

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