Ribbon: staple them all onto a wide ribbon with a pin at the top so the ribbon can be fastened to the vest/sash. Use themed (sunflower, daisy, rainbow, etc.) cotton ribbon 3-4 inches wide (the kind you use for wreath bows) and cut nice on the bottom. Perhaps put a magnetic strip on the back so it could be hung on the fridge until the badges get sewn onto the vest. Each ribbon could have a name tag at the top. Wreath: Get one of those straw wreaths (one for each girl) wrap the wreath in fabric, you can have the girls bring in fabric they like. It takes about 1/2 yard. If there is material left over a bow can be added. Use straight pins to attach the badges to the wreath. The size of the wreath depends on how many badges they have earned. OR: wreaths out of construction paper (all I had to work with, although I would've preferred felt or something) and I'm taping the girls try-its and patches around the wreath and I put a red bow at the top with their names on it. Poster Vest/Sash: Cut out of poster board a sash the correct color and attach the patches/badges on them so parent knows exactly where to sew it!. Trefoil shapes: out of poster board as a troop the patches are attached with double-stick tape. OR: Cut a huge trefoil out of green poster board (it's really not that hard!) Put green crepe paper streamers behind the trefoil -- 1 streamer per girl w/ try-its and patches attached. OR: Cut a large trefoil from posterboard. Then I outlined it with puffy gold paint, let it dry overnight, then a spot of hot glue for each patch or try-it. I wrote each girl's name in the center with a gold pen. Tied with program: We studied Egypt all year as our country for Thinking Day so I made pyramids with posterboard and had the badges and patches inside of it. Sign of the Satellite: Shooting star. The star part had everything that went on the front of the vest/sash and the shooting part had all of their patches. Gardening: Give girls small bags of potpourri and the adults these real neat garden glove memo pads for lending me a hand with our garden! Flower Pot: Get a cheap clay pot (1 per girl). Sponge paint/decorate it. Attach one try-it or badge to a paper cupcake cup, then to a green chenille stem (in other words, make each patch/try-it into a flower...add leaves, etc.) "Plant them" in florist foam in the clay pot. Pinwheels: attached streamers to it and on each streamer was a try it or patch. Chocolate kiss roses and attached to each leaf a JR badge Needlework ornament start frames: Cover the cardboard with fabric and put the badges or patches in the frame Fancy boxes Balloons: and putting the badges inside of the balloon then blowing them up with a helium tank, or attach badges to ribbons or streamers coming down. Ribbon with small cards attached saying the name of the badge or patch the girl had received during the year, and verbally acknowledge her accomplishments. Some ribbons were quite long! Paper flower Wands: cardboard backing in the shape of the trefoil behind, with streamers in the colors of the world hanging from it. Use a wooden dowel for the girls to hold on to. Badges and pins put on the streamers. Blue ribbon with a gold seal and attach the badges to it Necklace of the Try-Its and badges: Tape on curly ribbon. Daisies out of construction or poster board:. Attaching badges to petals, also attaching to ribbons that can be pinned onto the girl's uniform during ceremony. Lollipop:Staple the badges/try-its to a thin ribbon and then tying the ribbon very tightly to a lollipop stick. Take assorted lollipops and stick them in Styrofoam and then have the Styrofoam spray painted brown already and precut to fit small clay flowerpots. Now you have a flowerpot full of flower- lollipops!! You could do one of the flower ceremonies and then hand these out as each girl says her part or at the end of the ceremony. Clay flowerpots: fill with Styrofoam. Hot glue your patches, badges, etc., to pipe cleaners and arrange with silk leaves or flowers as an arrangement. You can paint the girl's name on the pot and hand out as a bouquet of flowers. OR: decorate clay pots with paint pens. Stick Styrofoam circles inside (painted green) the rim so it was pretty much flush with the top of the pot. Paint Popsicle sticks and cut out leaves from green construction paper and attached the leaves to the stick. Glue patches on the sticks. Paperbag Brownie vest: We cut the vest from a plain brown grocery bag, then attach the awards earned. Pizza: Make "pizza" out of fun foam or poster board. Mount badges with a dab of hot glue on the back, to form a portion or whole Pizza. Ice Cream dish: Make with funfoam or posterboard, badges are like scoops of icecream. Pyramid: Build IPPs into a pyramid, as the badges are the 'Building Blocks of Life'. "Brownie" angels: Materials: Brown grocery bags,paper towel tube,doll hair in various shades, markers or crayons, 1/4" or 1/2" wide ribbon, hot glue. Using brown grocery bags - cut out 2 angel shapes for each angel using "pinking shears" ( they looked like paper dolls with long skirts ). Cut a paper towel tube into 4" pieces and glue into opening of shirt to make it stand up. Add details like doll hair, faces and decorations on dress area with markers. Glue a piece of ribbon between the angels hands and stapled the Try-Its and other awards to it. Trefoils - about 4" size and write each girl's name on them. Staple to this a gold wire edged ribbon ( about 2 1/2" wide) and staple all the Try-its and membership stars to each one. The girls pin this to their vest using the star pin. Hawaiian theme: Put each try-it/badge on a lei. "Make new friends but keep the old" theme: Decorate everything in silver and gold (easy this time of year). Buy cheap silver and gold metallic material and make little drawstring bags big enough to hold patches/try-its. Give the gold to the "old" scouts (3rd graders?) and silver bags to the "new" brownies (1st graders?) or random or whatever. Make up presentation certificates:. Use borders that tie in with your theme. Attach badges or Try its to certificate. Snowman using paper plates: Use Try-its for the eyes and nose, and mouth.. Felt flowers, and attached the badges to the centers of them. Snowflakes: Attached badge to the center of paper snowflakes. Envelopes out of Girl Scout wrapping paper. Heart doilies: . Put them on a paper fan Post them in a folder cut into the shape of a Trefoil that opens like a book, with the girl's name on the front Made rosette buttons with wide ribbons ( badges on the ribbons) - everyone's a winner Copy of the Brownie membership pin: staple a ribbon to the "pin" and staple all the badges/Try-Its for the girl on the ribbon. Small picture frame with a picture of the girl, attach badges to frame Wrap recognitions is festive packages Put recognitions on pipe cleaner stems in a flower pot Put recognitions in a plastic egg for a springtime ceremony Put recognitions from the World of the Out-Of-Doors: On leafy branches or pine boughs In a bandana on a stick On a natural wood plaque Put recognitions from the World of People: On a paper doll chain Attached to international flags Put recognitions from the World of Well Being: On cardboard hearts On tongue depressors Put recognitions from the World of Today and Tomorrow: On paper airplanes Attached to pencils or rulers Attached to paintbrushes or sheet music In crayon boxes Strung on balloons Cut "Daisies" from colored construction paper. Use double sided tape or staple badges to the center of each flower. The girls' name, troop number, etc. can be written on the daisy petals. Girls who have earned several badges can be awarded "bouquets." Add a wire stem and leaves and place in a vase and you have a table decoration for your ceremony. Treasure Chest: Day. The girls were able to find their Treasure Chest (painted gold with little beads of their names on it) with the try-its they earned in it only after they figured out where the poem was sending them. Candy Bar awards with their try-its. "Chuckles" for my #3's giggling daughter was the easiest one. For a mixture of rededication and try-its earned earlier, I bought a wishing well and had the fairy on a pail bring their try-its up (oh yes, and don't forget the fairy dust!)