Boy Scouts

Art Badge Workshops are offered for Wolf, Bear and Webelo Cub Scouts. Each workshop includes hands on art activities and a guided tour of selected artworks. The cost for each workshop is $8.00 for each boy with a minimum of 12 boys or $96.00. Wolf and Bear workshops are two and one half hours in length and Webelo workshops are three hours. Each workshop includes color mixing and painting activities, construction sculpture building, and drawing activities. Please contact the Scout Coordinator, for additional information.

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Girl Scouts

The San Diego Museum of Art invites Girl Scouts of all ages to learn about the wonderful world of art while earning a Try-It, Badge, or Interest Project. All projects include a guided tour of selected artworks, hands-on art activities and often focus on women artists. The cost is $5.00 per girl for Daisy Girl Scouts and $8.00 per girl for all other programs. Adult chaperones are free. A minimum of 10 Daisy Girl Scouts or $50.00 is required for the Daisy program. All other programs require a $96.00 minimum (12 girls).

Daisy Girl Scout Program (1hour)
Beauties and Beasties

The youngest Girl Scouts will go on an adventure in the Museum searching for animals found in artworks. The hands on art activity is an animal themed drawing.

Brownie Girl Scout Program (2 1/2 hours)
Colors and Shapes Try-It

Colors and shapes are waiting to be discovered in a gallery tour. Girls will spot red triangles and yellow circles, mix up colors and stir up fun in this action packed workshop. Two paintings and a colorful mobile are the hands on projects for this workshop.

Junior Girl Scout Program (3 hours)
The Museum offers five different Badge workshops for Junior Girl Scouts.

• Art in the Round
  This workshop focuses on the works of three women sculptors. Girls will explore two different mediums used by sculptors as they create two small sculptures.

• Visual Arts
  Girls will learn that seeing is different from looking. Artists can use color to create mood. Color mixing is explored and mood paintings are created. Optical illusion art is studied and a black and white collage is constructed.

• Drawing and Painting
  Line, shape, color and texture are the elements of any drawing or painting. Girls will have fun experimenting with these techniques as they create several drawings and paintings.

• Folk Art
  Girls will find inspiration from their own experiences to create artworks in the folk-art style. A portrait, a story illustration, and a folk-art toy will be created.

• Prints and Graphics
  The Museum's collection of prints will serve as inspiration as the girls experiment with various printmaking methods. Vegetable, relief, transfer, and mono-printing will be explored.

Cadette and Senior Girl Scout Interest Project(supplement) (3 hours)

• Museum Discovery
  Cadette and Senior Girl Scouts will go behind the scenes to find out who works in a museum, how the collection is cared for, how programs are planned, and what technologies are used. Each girl will construct a model museum. The Museum Discovery workshop is a supplement to the Museum Discovery Interest Project.

Each workshop is scheduled independently. Please contact Karin Baker by telephone (619) 595-0360 or e-mail at for available days and times.

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