FREE Community Day 2024 @ Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace in Savannah

Come to FREE family Community Day at the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace in Savannah on Sat. March 9 2024 from noon-4PM.

You’re invited to this fun-filled outdoor event commemorating the founding of Girl Scouts. Whether you’re a local resident or visiting from afar, stop by with the whole family and celebrate the Movement that’s empowered girls for over a century. We’ll have a variety of family-friendly activities and delicious treats to enjoy.

DJ Jose Ray will be spinning tunes all day!

Don’t miss out on this opportunity to connect with the spirit of Girl Scouting and celebrate the remarkable woman who started it all.

Find details here.

FREE Reopening Celebration @ The Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, Savannah 

You’re invited to celebrate the renovation and reopening of The Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace in Savannah and 110 years of Girl Scouts at a free community-wide outdoor Reopening Celebration on Sat. March 12, noon-4PM. This event will feature music by DJ José Ray, snacks, and activities for the whole family.

Tour the recently completed renovations to the most accessible historic site in the city. It’s a perfect opportunity to learn more about accessibility.

Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace Community Celebration
Sat. March 12, noon-4PM
@ Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace
10 E. Oglethorpe Ave., Savannah

Girl Scout of Historic Georgia Family Fun Day at Camp Low.

Families are invited to come and find their wild at a Family Fun Day on Sun. Sept. 15, 2019, 1-4PM @ Camp Low on Rose Dhu Island in Savannah. This will be an afternoon of fun-filled activities for all ages.

Activities will include archery, climbing rock walls, low and high ropes, s’mores, yard games, fishing, pool time, face painting, arts and crafts, The Big Cheese Food Truck and much more.

Your child does not have to be a Girl Scout to attend. If girls are interested in joining Girl Scouts, there will be onsite registration for the new year. COST: $5 per car for the event.

Family Fun Day
Camp Low on Rose Dhu Island
1912 Rose Dhu Island
Savannah, Georgia 31410
Sun. Sept. 15, 2019, 1-4PM
COST: $5 per car for the event

Interested in joining Girl Scouts?

For girls interested in registering for the new Girl Scout year, there is a $25 national fee. Please note: Financial assistance is available through Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia. Financial assistance via Peach State, Wellcare, Caresource, and Amerigroup insurance is also available. Please bring insurance card to the event if you are interested in registering a Girl Scout.

For more information, contact Kitti Jackson at 478.391.9794 or kjackson@gshg.org

School’s Out… Let’s Cook!
Labor Day Kids’ Cooking Parties, Mon.  Sept. 7 2015 with Tummy Time Foods
Savannah State Farmer’s Market

When school’s out, the kitchen is open! Trade those pencils and books for some hands-on cooking fun with Tummy Time Foods.

10-11:15am: Tiny Tots Cooking Party
Kids ages 5 and under take over the kitchen for the most creative culinary experience in town! Join us for an exciting Tiny Tots Cooking Party including cooking, learning, singing, and story time! Seats are limited and advanced tickets are required! Tickets are $15 per child and one responsible adult per child is required. Register here. 

12:30-2pm: Kids’ Cooking Party
Kids ages 6 and up can join us to make some delicious kid-friendly dishes in the TTF kitchen! Everyone gets to mix, measure, stir and dine on their culinary creations! Seats are limited and advanced tickets are required! Tickets are $25 per child! Parents are welcomed to drop off their child or stay and watch.
Seating is limited.  Advanced registration is required and available here. 

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Tiny Tots Play Date @ Savannah Children’s Museum
Saturday, Sept. 19, 11AM-Noon
Whistlestop Café Dining Car

It’s a Saturday Play Date. Kids ages 5 and under enjoy creative food crafts, story time and singing at the Savannah Children’s Museum. Your little one will get to play with other kids and make two crafts- one to eat and one to keep.

Cost: $10 per child (Parents are always FREE.)
Advanced tickets are required and are available here.

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Girl Scouts “Cook Up A Legacy”
Tummy Time Foods is proud to announce our “Cook Up A Legacy” Classes for Girl Scouts of all ages. These Legacy Cooking Classes are the perfect way to earn the “Legacy Cooking Badge.” Classes are 90-minutes long and can accommodate up to 12 girls (minimum of 5 girls). Cost: $20 per participant and parents are FREE.

Click here to schedule a class for your troop today.

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FOR MORE COOKING CLASSES, PLAYDATES & PROGRAMS OFFERED BY TUMMY TIME FOODS, CLICK HERE. 

Join Massie Heritage Center in Savannah for two Girl Scout Days.

Saturday, July 11 2015: Girl Scout Life in Mid-19th Century Savannah program.

Participants will create heritage crafts, play traditional Victorian games, partake in a simulated 1850’s school day in Massie’s Historic Classroom, including writing with quill pens, and much more.

Depending on the level of the scout, students may also complete “chores” such as making candles and butter, or explore some of the historic squares of downtown Savannah on a short walking tour. They will also be earning the Listening to the Past Brownie Try-it Badge or Playing the Past Junior Badge and will have several items to bring home.

This program is 9AM-noon. Cost: $15 per participant and leaders are free. Registration is required and ends Monday, July 6 2015. Please visit www.massieschool.com or contact Melanie Hoffman at Massie Heritage Center at Melanie.hoffman@sccpss.com for more information.

Learn more here. 

Saturday, July 25 2015: Girl Scout Georgia’s Native Peoples program.

Participants will learn about the Muscogee and Cherokee Indians of Georgia as they create clay effigies or pottery, hear traditional stories and play native games and tour all of the exhibits at the Massie Heritage Center, including Massie’s Native American room with authentic artifacts.

Depending on the level of the scout, students may also cook cornbread and plant seeds or learn about the Trail of Tears and take a walking tour to see the gravesite of Tomochichi, the Mico (leader) of the Yamacraw Indians. They will also be earning the Georgia’s Native Peoples Brownie Try-It Badge or Junior Badge and will have several items to bring home.

This program is 9AM-noon. Cost: $15 per participant and leaders are free. Registration is required and ends Monday, July 20 2015. Please visit our website at www.massieschool.com or contact Melanie Hoffman at Massie Heritage Center at Melanie.hoffman@sccpss.com for more information.

Massie Girl Scout Days @ Massie Heritage Center, Savannah

207 E. Gordon Street
Savannah, Georgia 31401
912-395-5070
Saturday, July 11 & Saturday, July 25
9AM-Noon
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Monday, July 6 for the July 11th program; Monday, July 20 for the July 25th program.
COST: $15 per participant/ leaders are free.

Learn more here. 

Massie Heritage Center, www.massieschool.com, 912-395-5070, On Facebook here.  Massie Heritage Center is a SouthernMamas.com advertiser. 

Join Massie Heritage Center in Savannah on Saturday, July 11 2015 for their Girl Scout Life in Mid-19th Century Savannah program.

Participants will create heritage crafts, play traditional Victorian games, partake in a simulated 1850’s school day in Massie’s Historic Classroom, including writing with quill pens, and much more.

Depending on the level of the scout, students may also complete “chores” such as making candles and butter, or explore some of the historic squares of downtown Savannah on a short walking tour. They will also be earning the Listening to the Past Brownie Try-it Badge or Playing the Past Junior Badge and will have several items to bring home.

This program is 9AM-noon. Cost: $15 per participant and leaders are free. Registration is required and ends on Monday, July 6 2015. Please visit www.massieschool.com or contact Melanie Hoffman at Massie Heritage Center at Melanie.hoffman@sccpss.com for more information.

Massie Girl Scout Days @ Massie Heritage Center, Savannah

207 E. Gordon Street
Savannah, Georgia 31401
912-395-5070
Saturday, July 11 2015
9AM-Noon
REGISTRATION DEADLINE: Monday, July 6 2015
COST: $15 per participant/ leaders are free

Massie Heritage Center, www.massieschool.com, 912-395-5070, On Facebook here.  Massie Heritage Center is a SouthernMamas.com advertiser. 

Celebrate Juliette Low’s 153rd Birthday!
10 AM-4 PM Oct. 28-Nov. 3 2013
Juliette Low wrote, “I was born on the night when witches, imps and fairies roamed the earth!”
Tour her childhood home – laugh at her funny antics – be inspired by her courage and impressed by her artistic talent, indomitable spirit and great work, the Girl Scouts.
Visitors in costume (no face masks please!) will receive a $1 ticket discount.

Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace 10 East Oglethorpe Avenue (Corner of Bull and Oglethorpe) Savannah, GA 31401

Details here.

FOR MORE SAVANNAH KIDS’ HALLOWEEN EVENTS, CLICK HERE.

If girls are interested in joining Girl Scouts, there will be a fun event this Sat. May 4th, 10 AM-noon in Hull Park (55th & Atlantic).

Girls interested in Girl Scouts as well as girls who are already scouts can come out & do a whole bunch of fun science activities. Make your own lava lamp! Make a rock you can eat! Learn about what makes a parachute work! Make an art robot bug! Fun fun fun!

And FREE.

Moms can come learn how to find a troop for your daughter, and of course, if you are interested in learning how to lead a troop or co lead, come on out and learn how.

Special summer troops forming now!

10 am to noon Saturday May 4th.

Girls Scouts is open to all girls in Kindergarten and up!

Attention Brownie & Girl Scout troop leaders!

Your troops can earn their art-related badges at Scribble Art Studios in Savannah & Pooler.

A variety of artists are available for instruction, demos and discussion. Girls can create their own works of art while learning from artists who are active in the community! For more information, contact 912-323-0123 or email ScribbleArtStudio@hotmail.com

Scribble Art Studio in Savannah & Pooler also offers private & group art classes, birthday parties, adult art parties. For gifts, Scribble as art kits & gift certificates . For more information, contact artist Carrie Christian at 912-323-0123 or email ScribbleArtStudio@hotmail.com . Click here for more info. Scribble Art Studio is a SouthernMamas.com advertiser.

Is it time for your daughter to start Girl Scouts of Historic Georgia?

For more information, contact Susan Bass, sbass@gshg.org or call 912.657.6201. Click here for more info.

age levels are as follows:
Daisies K-1
Brownies 2-3
Juniors 4-5
Cadettes 6,7-8
Seniors 9-10
Ambassadors 11-12

Membership is $12. Financial aid available. Adult volunteers are always needed; girls are waiting to become Girl Scouts but there are not enough adult volunteers.

Benefits of Girl Scouts include: bonding; better school performance; community involvement; new friendships.

August is the Last Month of Puppet People Friday Summer Shows!
This is the last month to come out to the puppet studio with the family and see Puppet People’s “Friday Summer Shows” every Friday at 11:00 AM.

Two Special Puppet Shows Added to Summer Line-up!

DISCOUNTS:
*** Mention this code: “SM006″ and get $1.00 OFF each ticket for the “Summer Friday Shows”***
*** Mention this code: “SM006″ and get 10% OFF tickets for “J-Low & Friends”***

“Friends” August 10th

“Friends” is  a shadow puppet show based on an African Folk Tale, featuring the unlikely friendship that forms between Frog Child and Snake Child as they get to know each other and celebrate the things that make them different from one another. With all original music and voices by local talent.

The showings of “Friends” will be on the 10th of August at 11:00 AM and will include show and shadow puppet making demo on an actual light stage!

“Little Red Riding Hood” August 31st

Puppet People will be premiering their newest puppet show “Little Red Riding Hood” on August 31 at 11:00 AM. Be one of the first to see and be apart of Puppet People’s retelling of the classic story!

Friday, August 31st

11:00 AM

The Puppet Place

3119 Furber Ave.

Savannah, GA 31404

“J-Low & Friends”August 18th Public Show Come out to the Puppet People Studio on August 18 at 11:00 AM to see this month’s showing of “J-Low & Friends!” The worlds only puppet show portraying the life and times of Girl Scout Founder – Juliette Gordon Low!Price of admission includes the 50 min multi-media puppet show, as well as an interactive studio tour of our puppet building workshop and a FREE “J-Low & Friends” Badge!

Angela Beasley’s Puppet People “The Puppet Place” in Thunderbolt, 3119 Furber Avenue, Savannah, GA 31405, 912-355-3366, http://puppetpeople.com. The Puppet Place is also an ideal spot to host children’s birthday parties! Puppet People is a SouthernMamas.com advertiser.

To applaud Savannah native Juliette “Daisy” Gordon Low & celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Girl Scouts this year, Savannah businesses and residents are encouraged to add daisies to landscapes and bouquets. Low went by the nickname “Daisy” even as an adult.

To learn more about daisies, which bloom in late spring and early summer, including where to purchase them locally, follow along in Twitter @DaisiesforDaisy or contact Sandy Traub or 912/398-9828 or email straub@spatior.com

Did you know the Girl Scouts celebrate their 100th Anniversary in 2012?

Local celebratory events include a traditional bridging event over the Talmadge Bridge followed by a party in Forsyth Park. An additional ceremony will take place simultaneously at Forsyth Park for younger Girl Scouts and anyone that may not want to cross the Talmadge Bridge.

Registration closes when the event fills to capacity limit or on January 30, 2012, whichever occurs first. For more registration info, click here.

Bridging to the Next Century
7-11 AM Sat. March 10
Thousands of Girl Scouts will cross over the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge to symbolically “bridge” to the second century of the Girl Scout organization. Girls must be at least 10 years old or older to cross. Transportation will be provided to a party in Forsyth Park after the bridge walk. Registration ended in January.
Bridging at the Park 10 AM- Noon Sat. March 10, 2012: An additional ceremony will take place simultaneously at Forsyth Park for younger Girl Scouts and anyone that may not want to cross the Talmadge Bridge.

Party in Forsyth Park
11 AM-3 PM Sat. March 10
A post-bridging gathering in Forsyth Park that includes a “Sing Along”, led by Girl Scout Songstress, Melinda Caroll and activities for all ages. Participants will receive a special commemorative patch.

For more information about the Girl Scout’s 100th Anniversary local events, click here.