When you've completed the activities you will have earned the Junior Girl Scout Challenge Award Necklace.

The Girl Scout Challenge 2: Junior Girl Scouts
Living the Girl Scout Law

Confidence, courage, and character are words you might use to describe your heroes. These words can describe you, too! Take THE CHALLENGE to really live the Girl Scout Law. You'll find your confidence, courage, and character shining through. Then wear your Junior Girl Scout Challenge Award Necklace proudly.

Have an adult order your Challenge Award!

Part 1: Pledge to Show Your Character

Character is the set of traits that makes you the person you are—like being honest, a good listener, friendly, and helpful. In Girl Scouts, the Law is our standard of good character.

Build your character by following the Girl Scout Law—not just by reciting it, but by acting on the words of the Law. See the chart below. For each line of the Girl Scout Law (Column 1), write a statement that relates to something in your life. Check out the examples below:

(Print a blank version of this chart. Fill in statements of your own, sign it and put the date at the bottom. Then, get a witness to sign and date it, too. This is your pledge to build character by living the Law. Post it where you'll see it every day and do your best to stick to it.

Part 2: Courage to Live the Law

Now that you've pledged to build your character by living the Law, there'll be a lot of challenging times ahead.

There will be times when you'd rather be reading your favorite book than helping someone. Or, you might not feel like talking to anybody, let alone being friendly the morning after you stayed up too late.

It's going to take a lot of courage to stick to your pledge. Courage is challenging yourself to do something even though you think it might be hard.

Look over the character-building statements you wrote in Part 1's pledge. Pick three statements you think might be the hardest for you to stick to. For each statement you choose, come up with two ways to help you stick to your pledge. Keep track of your progress. See the example below.

Print a blank version of the chart. After two weeks, what was the most courageous action you took while trying to live your pledge? What obstacles did you face? What did you learn?

Part 3: Confidence to Make the World a Better Place

The Girl Scout Law challenges us to make the world a better place. Confidence is believing you have the skills to do this.

What's a special skill or talent you feel confident in? How can you use this to make your corner of the world a better place (consider Girl Scouts, school, place of worship…)?

Do you have a beautiful singing voice? Are you a good painter? Do you love speaking in front of a group? Are you great at building things? These are all talents that can make you, as well as the people around you, feel good. How? If you're good at art, try painting a mural on an old wall in your community (of course, make sure you have permission to do it first).

Once you've determined what your special skill is, figure out how you can use your skill to take action in your community. After you've acted, take time to think about how it made you feel. How did it make others feel? What did you learn?

When you've completed the activities, wear the necklace you've earned. When people ask what it means, you can say that you live by the Girl Scout Law.