FIELD TRIP: Girl Scout Museum in Waltham

Fifteen Brownies from Troop 2082 toured the Girl Scout Museum at Camp Cedar Hill in Waltham this afternoon. (Thanks to Ayushi's and Sagan's mom for driving!)The girls viewed uniforms for all Scout levels dating back to the early 1920s.
They saw a painting of Girl Scout Founder Juliette Gordon Low, who began Girl Scouts in 1912. They learned about Girl Guides all over the world.
The Brownies tried on different scout hats and posed for a Troop photograph.
The girls had the opportunity to check our pins from all over the world and badges through the years.
The field trip today was lead by volunteer Janet Coombs, who showed the girls her Brownie pin when she was about their age. (She told the Troop that when she was Brownie you had to be a third grader.) Brownies used to be first-second-third graders. Starting next year, Brownies will only be second and third graders.
Coombs told the girls that as a Brownie she didn't have uniform options. She had to wear a dress. pants were not allowed in school or at a Troop meeting.
The Girls learned why there was a pocket on the Brownie dress and why the pocket was not straight (Ask your daughter why. Hint: she can sing a song about it.)
The Brownies sang that song at the Museum.
Coombs showed girls a Brownie Beanie (hat). The girls had the opportunity to try on a Beanie.
The Brownies also had the opportunity to see what they would look like in a old-fashioned Brownie and Girl Scout uniform. (See some of the photographs below of them...)
The girls learned about the Cedar Hill site. They learned about Cornelia Warren, who lived on the site in a mansion, which was her summer home. The mansion does not exist anymore. In her will, she left the land to the community and in 1923 it was given to the Girl Scouts.
The Brownies had the opportunity to build a world trefoil using blue and gold felt. They also read about the symbolism in the World Trefoil Pin.
The girls had the opportunity to see pictures and miniatures of the camp site at Cedar Hill.
The Brownies had the opportunity to make a craft and play a memory game, using Brownie and Scout memorabilia.
Afterwards the Troop came together in a Brownie Circle and let Coombs start the Friendship Squeeze after singing Make New Friends. Coombs taught the Troop how to turn the circle inside out and showed us a new way to end our meetings with a Brownie Tunnel.
Girls line up in two rows, holding hands across the space between the rows. The pair at one
end of the “tunnel” walk under the raised arms of the girls. Each pair of girls follows as they become the first in line.
* The Troop had a fun time and we actually stayed longer than our hour.
Below are a few photos from the field trip outing:

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