Boy Scouts and Art

On November 13th and 14th, I was able to work with the Boy Scouts of America, in our local area, and be a volunteer Art Merit Badge counselor.  Let me tell you, I had known about this awesome opportunity for about 3 months, and had slowly been preparing as much as I could before moving, but there was so little I could do before registration began for my class.  So it wasn't until the week before my class that I was able to buy all the supplies, and then I also finished my power point presentation.

Here is what I offered the boys as art tools to use:

• Graphite pencils
• Colored pencils (Prisma Color)
• Charcoal in both the compressed stick form and the charcoal pencils
• Soft Chalk Pastels
• Acrylic paint
• Water Color in both pellet and pencil form
• And also the Batik art form using wax crayons, water color paint and printer paper

With 3 classes, 3 hours long each, I had a total of 17 students (with a few last minute cancellations) all of which earned and completed their Art Merit Badge so they could continue on their journey towards their Eagle Scout Award.  The boys had a blast, and it was so fun to teach art to youth other than my own children.  I would love to do more teaching and instructing with art!  The favorite art media was the water color pencils, chalk pastels, and graphite pencils.

Example of Charcoal from one of the Boy Scouts

Example of Chalk Pastel from one of the Boy Scouts

Example I gave the Boys, I painted this in 10 minutes from a
Still Life I provided the Boy Scouts.

The Example of a Sunset, my 8 year old son painted for the Boy Scout to follow