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5 Fun Activities to Earn The Junior Outdoor Art Explorer Badge
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Time to read 3 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 3 min
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If your looking for ideas to make your meeting more fun while discovering the great outdoors and getting creative, you have come to the right place. Using some of these activities below to get outdoors and creating some amazing art masterpieces with your girls while earning the Junior Outdoor Explorer Badge.
Below are a few ideas to get you started.
This Activity Booklet will allow you to combine your art and the outdoors to create something that is 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 your self from photography and painting to music and the best part you will have lots of fun doing it. With a step by step activities, you can’t ask for an easier way to run your meeting.
Where do you start with deciding what type of nature creations your troop will make. Well I took some time and created a Pinterest board called Nature Crafts just for you to save you time browsing the web. Just start with this board which is full of all things Nature. Pile of craft ideas you can try with your Girl Scout Troop at a meeting using supplies from nature as main resource.
To make a walking stick, you will need a stick and paint—I recommend tempera paint and paintbrushes.
Then, after the girls find a stick they want to use, remove any moss or trim branches that may be sticking out on it. Then grab your paint and paint brushes and have your girls design their walking stick how they want it to look. Of course, let it dry. Then, it is time to go out and enjoy a hike with their new walking stick. You can get some inspiration on this Pinterest board.
This could be done using a camera or a phone. The point of this exercise would be to help show your girls how lighting will affect how something turns out in the picture. The girls could use this as a chance to photograph maybe their favorite tree or waterfall at 5 or 6 different times of the day. Make sure to record time picture was taken. After done print pictures or look through them on device and decide what time of day is the best lighting to take pictures.
Here is a great example of a church being photographed at different times of the day to show you how timing matters. Church experiment
When thinking about nature as an art piece, many animals are artists in their own way: birds build nests, ants build ant hills, etc. There are many ways humans can use nature to create art as well. This activity will teach you to use your surroundings to make something new called a Terrarium. Of course, you can have girls go out in nature and gather supplies or purchase a kit with everything you need to create art from nature.
This idea is coming from one of my favorite Girl Scout resources, Scouting Web. I know this badge is more about the art of outdoors, but you can’t be safe doing art unless you understand some basic outdoor skills. I thought this could be a great addition to this badge. You could create a nice beaded bracelet giving each girl the 8 color beads to put on bracelet while also explaining to them what each color represents. Later on quiz them see if they remember what each color means. They can wear the bracelet with pride and a remind of how to be safe outdoors. Here is the craft instructions.
Well of course give them the Junior Outdoor Art Explorer 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, badge or award earned, date, and troop leader.
Editable certificates perfect for awarding girls after earning a badge.
If you have a multi-level troop, you may want to use one of the variations of this program geared toward the age of your girls.
Enjoy every minute being a leader and continue to inspire your girls!
