Have you ever wondered what the science was behind style? It is time to explore this with your girls by teaching them the science behind makeup, perfume, fashion fabrics, and skin care products. If you have no idea where to start this post will take you through a number of ideas and activities.
Science of Style Activity Booklet
Before jumping into a few ideas, do you want to skip all the planning? If so, use this Activity Booklet to do activities, games, and worksheets to allow your girls to takeover the meeting and learn how to make their own lip gloss, and edible face mask as well as learn about women fashion all the way back to 1920.
They will learn more about which fabrics are better to keep you warm while performing a experiment, throughout the booklet you will also find additional games and activities to keep the girls moving and engaged through the process.With a step by step activities, you can’t ask for a easier way to run your meeting. Learn more and get yours today!
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Other Fun Activities To Try
What is that smell?
Things needed: Smells: perfume (up to you how many), some type of container to hold the smelly items, cotton balls
Fashion Through the Years Photo Booth
If you are looking for Props to create a photo booth of Fashion through the years, here are some easy instant downloadable products from Etsy
- 1920 – Roaring 20s props
- 1950 – Fun in the 50s props
- 1960 – Hippie 60sÂ
- 1980 – Fun in the 80s props
- 1990 – Fun in the 90s props
- 2000 and beyond – Fun 2000 to present props
Women in History
Another great thing to look at is Women throughout history that have made a difference. Checkout this awesome book that has paper dolls of women throughout history. Girls could make a poster or put on a play using the paper dolls: Awesome Women Who Changed History: Paper Dolls
If you don’t want to spend the time planning this badge, our Activity Booklet has step-by-step instructions with activities that don’t require any planning other than gathering supplies and printing booklets.
What do we do after your girls complete the activity?
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, badge or award earned, date, and troop leader.  Editable certificates perfect for awarding girls after earning a badge
More Resources For You Beyond This Site
I get asked a lot what other resources are out there on the internet for Leaders. Â I have done some digging over the years and have used many of the resources myself. I compiled a list of some great companies that sell patches, programs and also other bloggers offering amazing resources that may fit your needs even better than my site did. Â Â Checkout what I found.
We know that the nose can identify a wide variety of smells. How sensitive is your sense of smell? Before meeting spray or rub smells onto cotton balls and put in containers – two containers of each smell. Give each girl one container and then take the matching containers and hide around room open. Girls must go around room smelling containers till they find the match to their smell. Also have them try to guess what all the smells are as they go around.
When doing some research I came across this very interesting article about how perfume was made. It could be a interesting read for your girls. “How Perfume is Made”
Give a bunch of examples of clothes through the years, hair styles, and shoes and have girls put a timeline chart together 1920 1930 1940 so on and then have girls try to organize the fashion items where they below. Have them use the internet or fashion books to come up with the answers.
If preparing all that seems like a lot of work – check out the Science of Style activity booklet for Seniors in the leader connecting leaders shop. It has all the fashion items for he years figured out for you, a great list of fashion facts for each decade and a blank timeline for each girl to use to put these fashion items together on. All you need to do is print and cut out the examples prior to the meeting and your ready to go. Â Get your copy here.