Saturday, April 14, 2012, 9:00 AM–3:00 PM

Scouts—$20  (15-girl minimum; 60 maximum)
Adults—$4

Curriculum to be announced. Last year's program listed below for reference.

2011 Program

My Heritage Badge
Junior Badge Book pages 54-55

• Create a Heritage Scrapbook
• Personal Heritage
• From Yesterday to Today
• Broaden Your Background

Make a scrapbook page for your troop's scrapbook, dress in costume, take a wagon ride and learn about Colonial life at oldest house in Lancaster County.

Folk Art Badge
Junior Badge Book pages 154-155

• A Picture Tells a Thousand Thoughts
• Tell A Story
• Traditional Art
• What Toys Tell Us
• Time Travel

Learn the art of storytelling, scherenschnitte (paper cutting), fraktur (decorative lettering) and scratched eggs, and play Colonial games.

Yarn & Fabric Arts    
Junior Badge Book pages 178-179

• Dye It
• Weave On
• Famous Fabric Masterpieces
• A Stitch in Time
• Fabrics of the Past

Learn embroidery stitches, fabric dyeing and weaving as were done in Colonial America.

Saturday, April 21, 9:00 AM–4:00 PM

Scouts—$20  (15-girl minimum; 60 maximum)
Adults—$4

Curriculum to be announced. Last year's program listed below for reference.

2011 Program

Listening to the Past Badge
Try-Its book pages 154-155

• If These Buildings Could Talk
• Visit the Oldest Cemetery
• Community Stories
• Games of the Past

Visit the oldest house in Lancaster County and hear stories from Colonial Pennsylvania German life. Girls are given a tour of the house and walk to the cemetery at Willow Street Mennonite church to take rubbings from the headstone of the builder of the 1719 Herr House. They also will listen to stories from Benjamin Herr’s diaries and will be taught Colonial games.

Stitch it Together Badge
Try-Its book pages 76-77

• A Real Page Turner
• Embroidery
• Sew What?

The girls will embroider onto a piece of fabric that they will then make into a drawstring bag to take home. They will also sew together paper to use as a recipe book.

Make It, Eat It Badge
Try-Its book pages 38-39

• Baked Apples
• Butter
• Green Thumb
• Recipe Book

The girls will make butter and then use it to make apple crisp that will be baked in the bake oven. They will write the recipe in the recipe books that they made earlier. They will also plant some herb seeds to take home to grow.