Resources
Welcome to our Resources Page!
Girls Inc. of Greater Indianapolis is proud to announce our new Resources Page. While many of us are home these days during social distancing due to COVID-19, our trained and dedicated staff want to ensure that your girls (or, really, any child in your home!) can access strong, smart, and bold activities remotely.
Please feel free to utilize the links, arranged by age group below. The links will download as printable PDFs that you can use at home, or on your mobile device, computer or tablet.
Activities for Girls 6-8
- Strong, Smart, and Bold Card Game: This game challenges girls to be strong through exercise, uses their minds to question what true beauty really is, and dares them to be bold through silly challenges!
- Learn a Hula With Mila!: Take a fun trip to virtual Hawaii and learn the hula!
- Stuffed Animal Workout: Grab your favorite stuffed animal and follow along with this interactive and fun physical activity!
- Make Your Own Mancala Board Game: Girls will DIY their very own mancala board game using a few simple household items.
- My Special Talents: With the support of a trusted adult, girls will explore the talents that make them unique and create a Talent T-shirt.
- Five Senses Empathy Experiments: Let’s practice empathy in a fun way by using our five senses to understnad how others feel!
- Drawing Using a Reference Photo: This activity is focused on learning how to use a reference photo to draw an animal.
- Indoor Scavenger Hunt: Girls will conduct a scavenger hunt searching for common items in their rooms and living areas.
- Letter to a Friend: Write a letter to your good friend, put a stamp on the letter and send it through the mail! Maybe you’ll get a letter back!
- ABCs of Saving: Girls will learn about the importance of saving and make a plan to save for an item of their choice.
- Science Exploration with Wow in the World: Girls will explore the wonders of the world with the kids’ podcast, Wow in the World.
- Family Put-Up Party: Let’s make posters to reminder our family how loved and special they are!
- Rainbow Poem: Girls will express creativity and make a poem using rainbow colors and words.
Activities for Girls 9-11
- Vision Board: Girls will visualize goals through pictures, drawings, and media.
- Get Movin’ with Girls Inc.!: This activity is designed to get girls up and moving with physical activity and fun!
- Interview Time: Girls will spend time interviewing a woman in their life to learn more about her history, successes, challenges and more.
- Nature Walk: Spend some time outside and observe the beauty of nature.
- Let’s Get to Business!: Interested in starting your own company? Download this activity to learn how to create a simple business plan to get you started!
- Make Your Own Mancala Board Game: Girls will DIY their very own mancala board game using a few simple household items.
- Five Senses Empathy Experiments: Let’s practice empathy in a fun way by using our five senses to understnad how others feel!
- Rube Goldberg Machine: Girls will design and build their own Rube Goldberg Machine while reflecting on how machines and engineering contribute to our everyday lives.
- Drawing Using a Reference Photo: This activity is focused on learning how to use a reference photo to draw an animal.
- Weave Your Own Bookmark: Learn to make a loom and weave endless amounts of custom bookmarks!
- Egg Shell Geode: Girls will use recycled eggshells to create homemade geodes and experience what it is like to be a geologist.
- Science Exploration with Wow in the World: Girls will explore the wonders of the world with the kids’ podcast, Wow in the World.
- Family Put-Up Party: Let’s make posters to reminder our family how loved and special they are!
- Leopard Print Nail Tutorial: Learn how to do leopard print nail art!
- Self-Esteem Meter: Learn to create and personalize a meter to fit your self-esteem journey.
- Love Tree: Girls will create a “love tree” to practice speaking positively to themselves.
- Coffee Cup Mother’s Day Card: Let’s make a Mother’s Dya card for all the strong, smart, and bold women in our life!
- Floral Nail Art Tutorial for Beginners: Learn how to do beginner floral nail art!
- Paper Bead Art: Make your own beads from paper and glue! Create a necklace or bracelet for someone special in your life.
Activities for Girls 12-14
- Vision Board: Girls will visualize goals through pictures, drawings, and media.
- Create Your Dream Space, Session 1: Girls will explore and map the space they live in, then design their own dream living space.
- Create Your Dream Space, Session 2: Girls will explore further how to create their dream living space!
- Seven Day Journal Challenge: This activity allows girls to explore different forms of journaling with a different writing prompt every day.
- Positive Thoughts and Affirmation Station: Learn how to thinking and speak positive affirmations to yourself.
- Professional Development: Learn how to turn your goals into trackable habits!
- Nature Walk: Spend some time outside and observe the beauty of nature.
- Easy DIY Nail Art Activity: Use items around your house to create fun and easy nail art!
- Drawing Using a Reference Photo: This activity is focused on learning how to use a reference photo to draw an animal.
- Egg Shell Geode: Girls will use recycled eggshells to create homemade geodes and experience what it is like to be a geologist.
- Ombre Nail Tutorial: Learn the basics of creating ombre nails!
- Discovering Your Core Values: Follow this guide to find out what really matters to you.
- Leopard Print Nail Tutorial: Learn how to do leopard print nail art!
- Genetic Traits Study: Girls will analyze genetic traits and learn how genes affect characteristics such as hair color, earlobe shape, dimples and much more.
- Science Exploration with Short Wave Podcast: Explore science and creativity with an episode of the exciting podcast, Short Wave!
- Self-Esteem Meter: Learn to create and personalize a meter to fit your self-esteem journey.
- Encyclopedia Womannica: Girls are often introduced–or re-introduced– to the powerful women leaders often left out of history books with the podcast Encyclopedia Womannica.
- Floral Nail Art Tutorial for Beginners: Learn how to do beginner floral nail art!
- Weather Tracking: Girls use their five senses and other tools to track and record the weather.
Activities for Girls 15-18
- Vision Board: Girls will visualize goals through pictures, drawings, and media.
- Meditation Moment: Girls will learn to manage their stress in healthy ways.
- Full Plate: Girls will learn the importance of time management and produce a schedule for the week.
- Seven Day Journal Challenge: This activity allows girls to explore different forms of journaling with a different writing prompt every day.
- Professional Development: Learn how to turn your goals into trackable habits!
- Nature Walk: Spend some time outside and observe the beauty of nature.
- Personality Testing: Teens can take online assessments to understand their personality and leadership styles, and incorporate the results into their career goals.
- Skin Glow Sugar Scrub: Teens will make a homemade sugar scrub to practice self-care and relax.
- Drawing Using a Reference Photo: This activity is focused on learning how to use a reference photo to draw an animal.
- The Native Beauty of Hawaii: Learn about a few of the native flowers that grow on the island of Oahu and their uses in Hawaiian culture!
- Discovering Your Core Values: Follow this guide to find out what really matters to you.
- Leopard Print Nail Tutorial: Learn how to do leopard print nail art!
- Science Exploration with Short Wave Podcast: Explore science and creativity with an episode of the exciting podcast, Short Wave!
- How Can We Vote, Part 1: Explore how non-eligible voters can talk to their friends and families about voting.
- How Can We Vote, Part 2: Discussion and information about the Census and how it can benefit us.
- Writing a Short Story: Use this guide and your imagination to create an exciting, short story.
- Self-Esteem Meter: Learn to create and personalize a meter to fit your self-esteem journey.
- Encyclopedia Womannica: Girls are often introduced–or re-introduced– to the powerful women leaders often left out of history books with the podcast Encyclopedia Womannica.
- Floral Nail Art Tutorial for Beginners: Learn how to do beginner floral nail art!
- Positive Parent or Guardian Affirmations: Girls will create uplifting and encouraging messages for the loved ones that care for and inspire them.
- Comic Strips: Girls will create a character and make their own three-panel comic story.
- Weather Tracking: Girls use their five senses and other tools to track and record the weather.
At Girls Inc. of Greater Indianapolis, we are committed to inspiring girls to be strong, smart, and bold everyday.
Additional resources during COVID-19:
- Child Trends: Supporting Children during COVID-19
- Marion County Commission for Youth: Connecting During Social Distancing
- NFL Play 60: Encouraging Children to Still Get 60 Minutes of Play a Day
- dailySTEM: Provides STEM Resources for Every Child and Every Classroom Everyday
- iCivics: Founded by Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and Works to Ensure Every Student in America Receives a Quality and Engaging Civic Education and Graduates From High School Well Prepared and Enthusiastic for Citizenship
- Playworks: Ideas to Keep Youth Engaged in Play at Home.
- Audible Free Stories for Youth 0-18: Kids can instantly stream a collection of stories including titles across six different languages.
- Glowmedia: Free films and companion guides to help young people develop the emotional agility necessary to thrive.
If you have any questions, please send us a message at programs@girlsincindy.org.