A well-deserved celebration photo after painting the entire United States.
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Beautiful by Nicole Koloen Girl Scout Cadette
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hen it came time to do our Bronze Award, Troop 45492 started thinking about the map outside our school. It was fading and needed to be repainted. Along with the map, the hopscotch, basketball, and four-square lines needed to be repainted as well. We spent awhile planning out how we were going to do each state. We decided we were going to have to paint the states the same colors they were before, so we headed outside to write down the color of each state. When that was done, it was time to tape out the edges. We could only tape a few states at a time, otherwise there would be unpainted lines between the states. After we taped the first round of states, we got all the colors of paint we needed, which were green, white, pink, purple, blue, and red. Then we started to paint. After painting the first few states that we had taped off, we let them dry until the next meeting. Then we peeled all the tape off and repeated those steps until the map was done. We also painted abbreviations on each state so kids can learn the state abbreviations.
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It took lots of planning, time, and dedication for the G.I.R.L.s of Troop 45492 to complete their Bronze Award project, but they never even considered giving up!
When the map was done, we moved on to the hopscotch lines. We put tape in the shape of the hopscotch game, and we painted it with white paint. Then we peeled off the tape and the hopscotch game was done. We followed a very similar process for the basketball court and four-square games. We put the tape down, painted the white paint, and peeled the tape up. After all of the paint dried, we were done! Now the map, hopscotch, basketball, and four-square courts are ready for kids to come and play on!
It takes tremendous focus and attention to detail to color the world beautiful, and these Girl Scouts gave it their all!