Activity Description: Scouts choose a craft project and create artwork using recycled, found, or mixed media materials.
- Fulfills Step 2 of GSUSA Daisy Art and Design badge requirements.
IF you also focus on color:
- Fulfills Step 2 of GSUSA Brownie Art and Design badge requirements
- Fulfills Step 3 of GSUSA Junior Art and Design badge requirements.
Info Needed for Daisy Art and Design: Crayons, colored pencils, and markers are types of art materials called mediums. Mediums can be things like clay, wood, or fabric. You can use paint or even a tablet or computer to make art. These are all different mediums. Artists sometimes use tools like paintbrushes, hammers, sewing needles, and 3-D printers to use the mediums. When an artist uses more than one material, like paint and crayons or yarn and wood. This is called mixed media or mixed mediums. If you use a pencil to draw something and then crayons to color it? You used mixed mediums!
Info Needed for Brownie/Junior Art and Design: Different colors can show different feelings, like happy, sad, or calm. Colors also help us see and understand what things are, like a green tree or a blue sky. Using colors in art helps make the pictures more interesting and tells a story.
Items Needed:
- Found Object Mobile by Instructables – string, sticks, and a variety of small found objects (plastic lids, keys, fabric, etc.)
- Magazine Collage by Teaching Tiny Tots – paper, scissors, glue, old magazines, and markers
- Recycled Sculpture by Tinker Lab– clean recyclables (bottles, boxes, foil, etc.) and glue or tape
- Watercolor Resist by Anita Sagastegui – white crayon, watercolor paints, brush, and paper
Instructions (Estimated Total Time: 25 min):
- Scouts choose which art or design project they want to try (3 min)
- (Optional) Encourage choosing something new or unfamiliar.
- Scouts gather the materials needed for their chosen project (2 min)
- Scouts follow the steps for their selected project (20 min)
- (Optional) Work individually or in small groups depending on setup.
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