Girl Scouts: Art Party and Campout AGAIN :)

Hi everyone!

I have some pretty great updates for the art party, and some questions for Girl Scout campers.

#1)  Art Party Updates (important stuff in bold) 

    

    A)  Supplies are on their way!  We have 30 blank signs to decorate, 30' of blank magnet strip to decorate (if we do 6" strips, that's 60 car magnets people can make!), tons of permanent markers and puffy paint, masks from the Health Department, and lots of paint and brushes. 

    We still need rocks to decorate, so could some scout or scouts stop by a beach and get a couple buckets of paintable rocks?

    

    B)  After a lot of back and forth and runarounds, and hunting and chasing, we have an official date!  We'll be at Hay Day!  The village has given us space for an "Art for Equality" activity area at Hay Day on September 26th.  This should be a great opportunity to share the message and activity with a good number of families.  The only drawback is that we might run out of some supplies, before the event is over, but that's OK.  If we run out of some things, we'll just focus on what's left.  They suggested we could also have baby pumpkins to paint, which I thought was a neat idea.  How does that sound to you all?  

    

    C)  Decorations?  Are any of you scouts able to make some posters for our area?  We'll print up some copies of the poster Katie made (which looks awesome!) to spruce up our area, but if any of you can make some larger posters that say "Art for Equality" or something like that, emphasizing the themes of equity, equality, and fairness, that would be awesome!  Can anyone help with that?

    

    D)  Timeline.  I'm not sure what the timeline is for setup and teardown for Hay Day, but asked the Village rep. and she'll get back to me so I can pass that info on to you.

#2)  Campout!  

    Is anyone else planning to join us for a laid back weekend of outdoor fun at Silverbrook on September 11-13 (or anywhere inbetween those dates?)

    And for those of you going:  do you have ideas of things for us to do there?  We'll be fishing, and hiking, and throwing axes, and shooting bows and arrows, cooking over a fire, cooking more over a fire, playing some camp games, but do you have any ideas?  Camp this year isn't as structured in the past, so we really get to do what we want.  The ball's in your court girls!  Ideas?

Happy scouting!

Aleks