Girl Scouts

Daisies

Vi’s Story – Friends Around the World - 2 hrs
Listen to Vi’s story, and then make your own friends by using large paper dolls to dress in clothing from different countries like France, India and Japan.

Prices

$6.00

Zinni’s Story: The Art of Sharing - 2 hrs
Listen to Zinni’s story on sharing and participate in a collaborative weaving project to promote the kind deed! You will receive a cardboard loom and strands of colorful yarn. You will then weave a few rows on the loom and pass it to the next scout, who will weave her yarn onto your loom. This process will continue until every scout has added a row to each other’s looms. We will then cut off the woven piece which can be used as a mug rug or rug for a dollhouse!

$6.00

Brownies - Arts

Stitch It - 2.5 hrs
Come join us and learn how to thread a needle!  We will practice sewing a button on a cloth bookmark as well as making a sachet filled with various scents. We will learn how to embroider on cloth using the outline stitch and cross stitch. We will then take a Scavenger Hunt through the museum to find sewn and embroidered items.

Prices

$8.00

Juniors - Badges

Jeweler - 3.5 hrs
How would you like to design and make your own jewelry for yourself or for someone else as a gift? You will be shown the different tools in jewelry making and then make a necklace and a beaded bracelet using weaving or macramé techniques. We will also talk about how different cultures used jewelry as symbols.

Prices

$16.00

Independence Badge - 2.5 hrs
It is your turn to walk the catwalk!! Cut, snip, and decorate your own totally original design.  Make a plain t-shirt into a cool part of your wardrobe using tricks and techniques fashion designers show on the runway. The t-shirt is included in the price of the program.

$10.00

Product Designer - 3.5 hrs
In this fun, hands-on program the girls will learn about inventions and inventors. They will become an “innovative detective” as they examine a product that they use by determining what is good about the product and what can be improved. They will build a “prototype” of their newly improved product and try “selling” their products to each other.  They will then go up to the INNOVATION STATION in the museum and record a commercial at our video station.

$12.00

Playing the Past - 2.5 hrs
Who are you?  What was it like living on a farm in an 18th Century New England town?  The girls will start with a paper doll as their character and they will make clothing to dress the doll.  They will then immerse themselves in activities of the time period by carding and spinning wool, processing flax to make a flax doll, and playing colonial games.  All the activities will be recorded in a diary so that they can share them with friends or family.

$10.00

Senior - Badges

Room Makeover - 2.5 hrs
For this badge we will discuss the basic principals of interior design such as space relationships and how to use color and lighting. Then we will use this knowledge to craft an inspiration board using fabric swatches, paint samples and photographs from magazines to create a layout of a room.

Prices

$8.00

Science of Style - 3.5 hrs
Fashion and glamour is a big business today made popular by science. Scouts will make and test a homemade skin-care product and compare it to a brand name product that can be bought today. They will examine the science behind fabrics, accessories, hair products, and perfume. They will make a fashion timeline that shows how clothing styles have changed through the years and then formulate a future clothing style. Finally they can take a walk through the museum for a fashion show through the ages!!

$12.00

Textile Artist - 3.5 hrs
What is textile art? We start with learning about different fibers and how they are processed into yarn, dyed, and then woven into cloth. There are many different varieties of textile art from all over the world. How are they made and what embellishments do they use to make them more attractive? For our textile art project we will make a pin wheel quilt block pillow and then make a “funky felted” item to give as a gift.

$12.00

Cadette, Senior, Ambassador –
Interest Project

Sew Glam - 3.5 hrs
Would you like to learn the ‘tricks” behind today’s hottest fashion trend know as self-made glamour? Scouts will learn sewing and embellishing techniques. Here is a chance for them to unleash their creativity as they transform fabric and clothes into custom designed outfits, accessories, and bedroom décor. Clothing supplies need to be brought by scout.

Prices

$12.00

Cadette, Senior, Ambassador – Arts

Textile Printing And Silk Screening - 3.5 hrs
Bring your own t-shirt and you design your own logo.  You will then try silk silkscreen printing this design onto your t-shirt.  Explore the museum and see for yourself all the different ways that printing has evolved through the ages from stamping with wooden stamps to modern machinery printing.

Prices

$12.00