Outdoor Art Maker
Outdoor Art Creator
Outdoor Art Explorer
Art in the Outdoors Materials included: • • •
Watercolor paints Paint brushes String
Materials not included: • • • • • • • • •
Paper Cups with water for rinsing brushes Plastic water bottles with caps (one per Girl Scout) Dried beans Glue Scissors Carton (from milk or juice; one per Girl Scout) Twig or small stick (one per Girl Scout) Decorating supplies such as permanent markers, paint, stickers, and other art supplies
Welcome: Let’s make the Girl Scout sign and say the Girl Scout Promise and Girl Scout Law together. Would anyone like to lead it? Introduction and icebreaker: Today we are bringing art to the outdoors through painting, music, and projects to help animals. What is your favorite animal? Activity 1: Discover art! Supplies: None Today we’re going to be artists and make art outdoors. We’re going to look at colors outside like artists do and paint a picture of what we see. Ask the Girl Scouts: • • • •
What kinds of colorful things do you think we might see outside? Where do you go to see art? At those places, what kind of art do you think you’d see? What makes these things art?
The best thing about art is that it can be found everywhere! Not just inside a museum, or on a wall somewhere. It’s outdoors, too! When you earn this badge, you will walk outside and see a lot of colors, shapes, and ideas for the outdoor art you want to create. Before we go outside to become outdoor artists, it’s important that we Leave No Trace. This means you need to protect nature and leave it the way you found it.