Shared Art with the Girl Scouts

For our shared arts project we chose to go to the Girl Scouts center in Spokane. We both love working with children so it seemed like the perfect place for us. Recycling is something that is important to both of us as well, so we thought why not take the lesson of recycling and turn it into a fun activity the Girl Scouts would hopefully enjoy. We found a “pattern” of the world online and an idea to repurpose puzzle pieces to fill it in. The Girl Scouts is an organization that offers activities and involvement for young girls, inspiring leadership, creativity, and life skills. To learn more about the Spokane Girl Scouts Center, visit http://www.gsewni.org/

Our experience with Girl Scouts was not what we were expecting, but ended up being one that was special and more personal than we would have thought. Going into the project we were expecting to have around thirty girls, but when we arrived we learned we actually only had four girls. This was a little bit of a shock, but it gave more room to get to know each of the girls better, making it a more intimate experience for us and hopefully for the girls as well. The project itself went smoothly and the girls seemed to enjoy it, creativity exploring options they could do with the puzzle pieces to decorate their world. Overall, our experience with the Girl Scouts ended up being a very special time to get to know these girls and we wouldn’t have changed that experience with them.