Activity Description: Scouts explore an art collection using a scavenger hunt to notice colors, styles, and materials.
- Fulfills Step 1 of GSUSA Daisy Art and Design badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 1 of GSUSA Brownie Art and Design badge requirements.
- Fulfills Step 1 of GSUSA Junior Art and Design badge requirements.
Info Needed: Artists and designers use different materials (called mediums) to create all kinds of art. Makers may draw, paint, build, sculpt, or even create art on a computer. By exploring the styles and materials they use, we can better understand what creativity looks like around us, and how it can inspire our own art.
Items Needed:
- An art collection (either brought to a meeting or field trip to see)
- Printout of your chosen scavenger hunt for each scout or small scout group
Instructions (Estimated Total Time: 25 min):
- Choose a scavenger hunt that matches the art collection (3 min)
- Art Color Hunt (Recommended for Daisy)
- Art Museum Hunt
- Art Element Hunt
- Art Collection Hunt (Recommended for Junior)
- Color and Shape Hunt by GSUSA (Recommended for Daisy)
- Scouts explore the art collection using the scavenger hunt (15 min)
- Look for colors, shapes, materials, and styles.
- Scouts share what they found and what inspired them (7 min)
- (Optional) Talk about ideas for things they might like to make.
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