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5 Fun Activities to help you earn the Ambassador Outdoor Art Master Badge
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Time to read 4 min
Never Struggle Planning Activities Again
Easy to use activity booklets for your troop meeting.Never Struggle Planning Activities Again
Easy to use activity booklets for your troop meeting.|
Time to read 4 min
If you're looking for ideas to make your meeting more fun while discovering the great outdoors and getting creative, you have come to the right place. Use some of these activities below to get outdoors and create some amazing art masterpieces with your girls. These ideas will help you earn the Ambassador Outdoor Art Master badge.
Below are a few ideas to get you started.
This Activity Booklet will give you a chance to bring your art and the outdoors together to create something helpful to the environment
You will make some of your greatest art with the inspiration of nature, and design all kinds of different art pieces. You will make a number of creative outdoor-themed pieces expressing yourself through photography and making your own nature music, and the best part is that you will have lots of fun doing it. With a step by step activities, you can’t ask for a easier way to run your meeting.
Learning how to appreciate art in all its forms. Art isn’t only something you see in a gallery–it always surrounds us! Teach your girls to notice the beauty in the outdoors, both natural and artificial, by exploring outside and documenting what they see. Give them any medium, whether pen and paper, film camera or watercolors. Disposable cameras like this one are fun and easy for all ages.
They should try to get creative by looking at things from different perspectives and angles. For example, have them lay under a tree to see its branches spreading out towards the sky. Topography, sculptures, and topiary can influence your art, so take as many photographs or sketches as you can while outside.
Try making something both artistic and functional, using materials found outside. Gather some sticks and flowers to bind them into a picture frame or decorative wall piece. Paint rocks, use leaves as stamps, or press flowers into bookmarks. You’d be surprised by what you can craft using only things foraged from nature! If you need inspiration, check out this great art and crafts idea book. It has over fifty ideas from an artist and nature photographer who advocates for sustainability and appreciation of natural resources!
ASMR is a massive online trend, so get your girls to try recording audio themselves!
Remember that art is not just visual. What you hear can also leave a strong impression and cause you to feel different emotions. There’s a reason why people have sound machines that play ocean waves or rainstorms at night to help them fall asleep–it’s incredibly relaxing!
Go outside and spend time in silence, appreciating the different sounds you hear. Using your phone, record your favorites and compile them into a composition. You might listen to crickets chirping, leaves crunching, or the wind blowing through trees. All of these can be used to create music or background noise. If your girls want to get a little more creative, they can film a short nature documentary that utilizes their captured sounds.
This is a perfect opportunity to introduce your girls to various careers related to the outdoors and art. Have them explore a field that interests them and create a project or art for it.
Some of the more well-known jobs are photographer, forest ranger, and archeologist–but don’t stop there! Even architects and writers study nature to influence their work. Try going out for a walk in the park and writing a poem to describe how nature makes you feel or directing a video about an environmental issue in your neighborhood. You don’t even need fancy equipment since cell phones have high-quality cameras now!
Let the creativity flow by designing something entirely new for your surroundings. Instead of just drawing what they see, your girls should look at a landscape and consider how to enhance it.
Why not try designing a community park or garden? You can discuss natural flora and fauna, water concerns, and even the psychology of design. Add structures and extra features for the people to enjoy, too. This can be an individual project, or you can get the entire troop involved to pitch ideas together. You can even find handy landscape design kits like this one for your girls.
When you are going outdoors, you must take the necessary precautions to ensure your safety. You should always be prepared, even if you’re just going for a light hike! Here are a few tips to keep in mind before you and your troop head outside:
Well of course give them the badge to display proudly on their vest, they earned it! Additionally If you are like many leaders we want to award our girls when they complete something even beyond just the patch. One great way to show achievement is with a certificate. Don’t worry you don’t have to make them, I found a resource that has done all the work for you and all you have to do is print them and customize the certificates with each girl’s name, date and troop leader. Click here to get a complete set of Girl Scout Ambassador badge and journey certificates.
Enjoy every minute being a leader and continue to inspire your girls!
