Activity Description: Scouts choose an art material and create a unique piece using color, shape, line, and texture.
- 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:
Choose one or more art materials based on what’s available:
- Aluminum foil
- Cardboard
- Clay
- Colored pencils
- Paint
- Spin Art by GSUSA (paint medium)
- Spin Art by Meri Cherry (paint medium)
- A computer with a kid-friendly art program (e.g., Tux Paint, Kleki)
Instructions (Estimated Total Time: 30 min):
- Scouts choose one or more materials to create with (3 min)
- (Optional) Encourage trying something new like foil or digital art.
- Scouts use their chosen medium to make any kind of artwork (20 min)
- Explore shape, color, line, and texture based on the material.
- Scouts share or display their finished piece (7 min)
- (Optional) Talk about what they liked or learned from the material.
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