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Girls' Summer Camp at Tilles Park Celebrated 100 Years of Girl Scouting
Brief Interlude at Tilles Park in Brentwood was a fun and educational experience for all who attended.
Girls entering Kindergarten through fifth grade participated in the Girl Scout summer day camp at Tilles Park in Ladue last week. This five day camp was packed full of fun, games and educational experiences.
“The camp teaches the girls outdoor skills. They get to meet other girls from girl scouting that are not from their troop. We teach core values, leadership and service,” said Kat Dunne, Director of Day Camp at Tilles Park and Troop Leader at St. Michael’s School in Clayton.
The theme this year, A Century of Girl Scouting, was chosen to celebrate the Girl Scouts Centennial year. Girls Scouts of the USA was founded in 1912 by Juliette Gordon Low.
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“We did things girls did over the past one hundred years. One day was beads for the 60’s, we made recycled eyeglass cases for the 70’s and today is the 80’s. Everyone dressed up and colored their hair,” said camper, Rose, aka Captain Awesome as she held up her funky sunglasses. As she stepped into the sunlight, her green hair was more visible.
When asked how she got the name Captain Awesome, she said, ”I thought of it. We all get to think of a camp name. But, it is optional.”
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Captain Awesome said her favorite activity was making tie dye shirts. They all wore them Friday, the last day of camp.
Other activities and educational games included, learning African dance, making hula hoops, water cycle game, creating sunglass cases, bags and matts from recycled, plastic grocery bags and Hardwear cloth and orienteering, where the girls had to find points on a map set up around the park.
The camp was run by volunteers, some mom’s of the girls, other not. Daycare was provided for boys and girls who were not Girl Scouts.
“They lived a kind of Tom Sawyer life this week. They fished and ran about the park, with parental supervision of course,” said Dunne.
There were five Girl Scout units total at summer camp:
- Pink-Daisies, Kindergarten-First Grade
- Yellow-Brownies, Second-Third Grades
- Blue-Juniors, Fourth Grade
- Orange-Juniors, Fifth Grade
- Purple and White (Worple), Older girls training to be aides. The aides help with crafts and projects in units, troops and residential camps.