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Leadership Activities for Girls

Introducing young girls to leadership concepts can help them develop their communication skills, work effectively in teams and groups, and have better relationships with peers and friends. It also prepares them for becoming leaders in their communities and schools. Summer camps, youth groups and after-school programs such as Girl Scouts and Brownies are ideal places for girls to learn about leadership through fun activities.

Community Work
- Good leaders have a sense of initiative. They can come up with ideas and execute them for a great cause. Community work is an activity that teaches girls about how to take the initiative and do things that will have a positive impact for those around them. Community work activities can be as simple as picking up trash on the campground, to collecting recyclables from school classrooms, to volunteering to plant flowers at a park.
Peer Tutoring Activities
- The older girls in your group are learning about becoming leaders and can gain direct exposure with leadership by being a peer tutor with the younger children's groups. Put your older girls in charge of leading the younger children through a team exercise or project. The older girls will need to exemplify good leadership skills by explaining the exercise or project in detail, helping the younger children understand how to perform what is asked of them, resolving conflict among the younger children and being available when the children have questions. At the end of the exercise or project, the older girls can feel proud of what they accomplished by leading other groups.
Fundraisers
- Girl Scouts are known for their cookie fundraisers, but fundraisers can be conducted through any organization, including schools and camps. A fundraiser allows girls to take on leadership responsibilities by putting together a program geared to make money. With the money earned, girls can fund trips for their youth group or even donate the money back into the community for a good cause. You and your team of girls must come up with fundraiser ideas, but allow the girls to take charge. This gives them practice in decision making, strategizing, communicating and task delegation.
Trust Walk
- In the trust walk activity, girls lead a blindfolded teammate from Point A to Point B through verbal and physical cues. This activity encourages the use of good communication skills and help girls realize the importance of being a good leader. Girls are teamed up in pairs and take turns leading the other person, who is blindfolded, through an obstacle course. When the activity is complete, have the girls discuss the experience and name some of the important leadership skills that they used to achieve a successful outcome.

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