Daisy Patch Placement – Note: The following information is all current as of July 2018 badge release. I no longer have all these badges/bests available to play with. At this time, I have no intention of restarting the additional placement instructions, but I will not remove them because they are still useful for calculating what you think is right. 🙂

I made all of these pictures because the official Uniform Placement Guide provided by GSUSA is not to scale and does not include pictures. The clipart style is a great guide to the basics, but difficult to use when you have a very active army or scouts with every (or almost every) badge and tour available.

Daisy Patch Placement

The images below use every current badge available for their tier as of July 2018. Not every guy or every girl will do all the badges, but if you’re a G.I.R.L, this will help you figure out how to try to mix things up. Who accomplished this goal? Side note, if your troop doesn’t use crests, you can move your troop numbers, stars, and bridges up and you’ll have full row room for more badges.

Girl Scouts Patches, Pins, Vest/sash Lot

I tried a bunch of different layouts and it seems like these 4 might be the cleanest. The good thing is, they still have some room to fit whatever comes next year.

I tried keeping all the trip tabs aside like all the other layers. It’s really overwhelming, but it’s worth it. If you do this, you can either put the International Day of Action and International Day of Thought patches on the bottom of the other side and still fit 5 staggered rows of 4 (20 total) flower badges, or you can fit 4 to 7 borings. Row (Total 28) Flower Badge. There are currently 12 non-travelling flower badges, so there is plenty of room for more when/when they are released.

If I move all the flower badges to the side of the flag, it looks much cleaner. If you push them, you can fit 4 to 7 rows. This gives you enough space to place the International Action and International Day of Thinking badges next to each other or on the side right or bottom right under the main 3 Trips tab. Or just put GA and WTD back to make it less confusing. This gives you room for 7 more flower badges/when they are released.

It just shows what happens if you stop the badge row. You still fit in 4, but now you can only extend 6 rows instead of 7. This layout only has room to add 3 more flower badges. I suspect you can’t stop a row in an XXS/XS vest, so this arrangement is probably closer than it looks.

Senior Girl Scout Vest

If you put the Global Action and International Day of Thinking Awards behind you, you can just put Travel Abroad on the side of the tab and it won’t look out of place. This leaves you room to do 4 full 7 rows on the side of the flag. In this configuration there will be room for 10 more flower badges beside the flag. And if you need to, you can still move one of the STEM tours and place it vertically under the seam.

Of all of these, I think my favorite version is #2, either with or without International Day of Action and International Thought. (Although I will add the badges in neat rows when I receive them, but don’t spread them all out like that to show how many will fit.) 🙂

This first example was done on a medium 10-12 vest. There is no definitive guide to tackling a new outdoor adventure. It’s made from an existing normal badge, and the only shape I could put on it that didn’t look really weird was a pyramid that looked like an upside-down WoW tour. I am angry that the Take Action Project (TAP) badge is not being targeted for the new tour. It does not fully integrate the new STEM journey. Next…

With the addition of 5 badges released in July 2018, I couldn’t fit everything into the medium vest unless I removed the Global Thinking Day and Global Action badges. To do this they have to move backwards. However, I had to put the advanced badge set aside for the tour and the Brownie Coast tour would be pushed back a bit.

Quick Tip: How To Perfectly Adhere Patches

This is another example of the same set of badges, but this time on a larger 14-16 vest. It’s a bit difficult, but everything fits in front. I think my personal preference would be to move the Global Thinking Day and Global Action Awards back and use that space to have some advanced badge sets so the flag side isn’t so crowded.

I think this is a large 14-16 vest, definitely smaller than my daughter’s XL. Again, there is no definitive guide to tackling a new outdoor adventure. These are made from existing common badges and the official placement guide sticks them together with the rest of the common badges. It doesn’t make much sense to me, so I put it on the side of traveling with other trips.

This is the cleanest layout I could think of and to do this, 2 of the advanced badge sets had to be relocated to the travel side.

I had a section here where I featured a combined C/S/A vest. The badges released in July 2018 were too many to fit all at once. I’ve moved the C/S/A joint I put together in July 2017 to the bottom of this page, but going forward, you can’t do everything in a big vest anymore. Many of the girls have already split the khaki vest into just a cadet vest for 3 years and a senior/ambassador vest for the last 4 years, so that’s what I’ll be showing in my photos.

Girl Scouts Becoming Me Patch

The next 2 examples are different ways to organize Leadership in Action (LIA) awards and outdoor and STEM trips. The vest is a big one.

Want your cadet to use a sash instead? If they are willing to sacrifice the funny patches, you can put the travel and ID patches on the front and the normal badge on the back and everything will fit until you can add 4 of the new LIA to the front. The gain without that is really, really low.

If you got a new vest at senior level, here’s an example that doesn’t include cadet badges. We have plenty of room to bring back the International Day of Thought and the Global Action Awards once again. Again this is a great vest.

I also gave examples for seniors and ambassadors. They can each carry a full travel kit including an ID patch and all the usual badges, with the annual Global Thinking Day and Global Action Awards on the back. They work with either the PIN version or the patch version of the original 3 Tour. The three badges at the top are just to show how wide the normal badges are. They fit well.

Where Do You Put Thinking Day And Global Action Awards On A Junior Vest

I’ll leave those images here, even though they only run through the July 2017 badge release. 29 new badges have been added for the combined cadet, senior and ambassador levels, and you can’t add that many to this vest. If one tries to use the same vest for 7 years, these are still good examples, but the examples are a bit imperfect. Trying to fit 7 years worth of memories into one vest is tough. The use of khaki vest in these photos is great. As mentioned above, outdoor tours don’t really provide proper placement or integrated patterns, so I did my best to make things look nice and fit. The white paper under the wings says it’s just a placeholder for the pin. You can choose them all under the bridges or next place.

These 2 examples are my attempt to get all current badges for all 3 levels in one vest. The International Day of Thought and the International Action Award should be abandoned. 14 in 7 years from cadets will be through ambassadors and will not be eligible. If you take that out of the equation, there are 2 neat ways to put everything together:

Version 1: Cadet items only go to the side of the flag. Tours go under the bridge and wings

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