Free Design Tools for
Custom Girl Scout Apparel

Custom apparel is a cornerstone of troop identity for Girl Scout leaders. Matching tees strengthen troop pride at cookie booths, camping trips stand out when scouts wear coordinated gear, and bridging ceremonies become memorable milestones with a keepsake hoodie or hat. Beyond identity, custom apparel is one of the most effective fundraising tools a troop can run — parents are happy to buy a quality shirt that supports the troop, and cookie season visibility gets a real boost when every scout is wearing the same branded tee at the booth.

Most troop leaders are parent volunteers without a design background, and the biggest obstacle to getting custom apparel made is simply getting the artwork right. A troop logo pulled off a council website often comes as a low-resolution JPEG with a white box around it. A cookie season graphic saved from a phone photo needs to be converted and resized before it is print-ready. These free tools solve exactly those problems — use the background remover to strip that white box in seconds, the file converter to turn any image into a clean PNG, and the image resizer to hit the exact pixel dimensions the print shop needs. The text design generator lets leaders create a custom camp trip or bridging ceremony design by typing a troop number and event name, with no design software required.

Bear Grips Pro Shops gives Girl Scout troops a free branded online storefront backed by 100+ premium apparel products, with no inventory to buy and no minimums to hit. Scout families shop directly from the troop's link, pick their sizes, and receive their order shipped free anywhere in the USA. Troops set their own profit on every item and keep 100% of it — a natural fit for funding camping gear, registration fees, and service projects. The catalog includes youth and adult sizes across tees, hoodies, sweatpants, hats, and more from brands like Sport-Tek, Champion, and Bella+Canvas, all printed and shipped from the USA.