Scout Programs
All programs are one hour, unless otherwise noted.
Programs will be collaboratively scheduled based on both museum and troop’s availability
Cost
One-hour programs $10 for each Scout, 10 Scout minimum
Two-hour programs are $20 per Scout, 8 Scout minimum.
Patches need to be purchased separately by the troop, as the museum does not provide them.
If you would like to learn about the Scout programs we offer, please call the Museum Education Department at (631)751-0066 x212, or email educators@longislandmuseum.org
Girl Scouts
Listed below are the official Girl Scouts badges and patches that the museum is able to offer full or partial requirement completion for. Patches for these programs must be provided by the troop leader for these programs, as the museum does not.
Daisies
Daisy Art and Design
Find out how to be a maker to turn ideas into art and to solve problems with design.
- Discover art and design
- Experiment with your medium
- Be inspired by a subject
Outdoor Art Maker
Explore the outdoors and use what you see and hear to make different kinds of art projects.
- See the colors of nature
- Hear the sounds of nature
- Share your outdoor art
When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll know how to look at nature like an artist and make your own outdoor art.
Brownies
Paint the Real World
Visit the Art Museum to view the current exhibition. Move on to the studio to create your own still life, portrait, or landscape masterpiece.
Merit Badge: Painting 1 & 2
Paint a Mood / Paint without Brushes / Paint a Mural
Visit the Studio to talk about abstract artists. Create artwork that expresses your mood by painting with alternative objects to express your feeling in your abstract art. Experiment with how artists can paint using tools besides brushes, such as stamps, string, and leaves. Finish up by collaborating on a group mural.
Merit Badge: Painting 3, 4, & 5
Earn Your Badge in 1 Visit (2 hours)
Each project will allow you to achieve steps 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of your Painting Badge. The grand finale will be an art show for all to view your work.
Merit Badge: Painting 1–5
The Smiths Travel to Oregon
Travel the Oregon Trail with the Smith family as they leave their home in Bloomington, Illinois and head for Oregon Territory. You’ll learn about what food and personal goods they brought along to survive. Afterwards, share your family stori
Merit Badge: My Family Story 1 & 5
Carriage Innovations
Welcome to our functioning carriage shop! Learn how carriages were made in the U.S.A. Then, take a tour of our Blacksmith shop and discover how wheels were made and fitted to each carriage.
Merit Badge: Innovator 1 & 2
Carriage Adventure
Become a carriage salesperson and search the museum’s collection for the perfect vehicle for your customer’s needs. Does it have the right features, storage and finish? Look at the carriages and listen to the videos and sounds around you to pick. Convince your fellow scouts!
Merit Badge: Investigation 1 & 2
Creating Art Outdoors
Find out how you can make your own art outdoors and have fun doing it! Steps included in the program are:
1 – Find art ideas outdoors
2 – Make something
5 – Design with nature
When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll know how to do different kinds of fun art projects outdoors!
Merit Badge: Outdoor Art Creator 1, 2, & 5
Juniors
Experiment with Different Materials – Option 1
Tour the Museum grounds or the Art Museum with a sketchpad; then return to the studio to create a landscape masterpiece, using all different types of artistic media.
Merit Badge: Drawing 2, 3 & 5
Experiment with Different Materials – Option 2
Learn about shading and art making materials then create still life artworks to show off in our Junior Art Show
Merit Badge: Drawing 1, 2 & 5
Graphic Artist
Learn about famous artists who use printing as their form of expression. Then create your own logo, which represents something about you.
Merit Badge: Artist 4 & 5
Earn Your Badge in 1 Visit (2 hours)
Each project will allow you to achieve steps 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of your Artist’s Badge. The grand finale will be an art show for all to view your work and the presentation of your Artist Badge! Badge included.
Merit Badge: Artist 1-5
Creating Art Outdoors
Let nature be your inspiration as you explore, create, and design different kinds of art. Steps included in the program are:
1 – Explore outdoor art
2 – Make something!
5 – Design with nature
Merit Badge: Outdoor Art Explorer 1, 2, & 5
Travel Back In Time
Learn what life was like for girls like you in the 1800s. Create a character and imagine a day in her life through clothes, games, chores, and more!
Merit Badge: Playing the Past
Cadettes
Comic Artist
Find out more about the world of comic art and then tell your own visual story.
- Delve into the world of comics
- Choose a story to tell
- Draw it out
- Frame it in four panels
- Add the words
When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll know how to create your own comic.
Outdoor Art Apprentice
Find out how to observe and collect things outdoors that will drive your art and creativity.
- Explore art outdoors
- Make something!
- Get to know—and create—sounds of nature
- Be a nature photographer
- Design with nature.
When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll have been inspired outdoors and created nature-themed art.
Seniors
Collage Artist
No matter what you do with your collage, there won’t be another just like it in the world. This badge is an opportunity to make art as unique as you are.
- Explore collage
- Focus on composition
- Create with color
- Use found objects
- Share a message
When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll know how to create collages using different materials and color themes.
Outdoor Art Expert
Learn to see nature with an artist’s eye and create something helpful to the environment.
- Explore art outdoors
- Make something!
- Create or share music inspired by nature
- Capture nature digitally
- Design outdoors
When you’ve earned this badge, you’ll have learned how to create art outdoors with a focus on the environment.
Textile Artist
When you see all the colors and textures of fabrics and yarns, do you dream up a million things to do with them? Get ready to turn those visions into reality as you meet with artists, learn about the world of textile arts, and make two projects in the craft that most inspires you to pick up your needles (or loom or spinning wheel).
- Choose your textile art
- Find your tools and materials
- Learn the basics
- Make something for everyday use
- Create a gift or item for a special occasion
When I’ve earned this badge, I’ll have learned the basics of a textile art — and I’ll have two fantastic projects to show for it.
Earn a History Maven Girl Scout Patch
The LIM’s History Maven patch can be earned through guided and self-guided experiences and can be tailored for several Girl Scout levels. Whether you are looking to explore history through the lens of 19th-century transportation or learn about extraordinary women for Women’s History Month and beyond, this patch can be your passport to adventure.
Daisies & Brownies:
A Day at the Nassakeag Schoolhouse (Guided)
Become a student in our authentic one-room schoolhouse! Scouts will practice Spencerian Script, solve arithmetic problems on slate boards, and play 19th-century games. Explore aspects of school life from long ago through primary sources, object-based inquiry, and hands-on experiences.
The World Before Cars (Guided and Self-Guided)
What is transportation and why is it important to us? How do people and things travel from one place to another, and how was this accomplished in the past? Scouts will learn about some of the exciting vehicles in the museum’s world-renowned collection and begin to understand why they were built and how they worked. They will also learn about the importance of horses and horse care in the 1800s followed by conceptualizing a plan for their own vehicle in an art activity.
Juniors & Cadettes:
Riding into History: Women and Carriages (Guided and Self-Guided)
Discover the women who literally took the path less traveled by exploring carriages in the collection used by and designed for women. Through gallery viewing scouts will learn about women in carriage history and how these trailblazers made lasting impacts on their communities. Scouts will then have a chance to design their own carriage inspired by one of their favorite women who has made an impact on history, or who is still making history today.
Vehicles for Change: Elizabeth Jennings and The Fight for Equality on NYC’s Streetcars (Guided – Available Late Fall 2025)
How do we change unjust systems? Scouts will learn about Elizabeth Jennings and her fight for equal access on public transportation in New York City in the mid-1800s. Explore museum artifacts, analyze historic documents, and examine the museum’s 1885 streetcar to understand the importance of transportation within communities, as well as the role it has played in social justice movements.
Guided Programs
- One hour experience
- Available after school on weekdays, over school breaks, and on select weekends
- $100 per program for up to 12 Girl Scouts | $10 for each additional Girl Scout (20 max.)
- $2 per Girl Scout for patch
Self-Guided Programs
- Available during regular visiting hours: Thursday – Sunday from noon to 5 pm, February through December
- Pick up activity worksheets at the Visitors Center or print a copy at home via the buttons below
- Museum admission is required (Library passes are not valid for Girl Scout programs)
- $2 per Girl Scout for patch
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Registration
Please call (631) 751-0066 ext 212 or email educators@longislandmuseum.org to register for a guided program.
No registration is required for self-guided programs.
Scouts of America
Listed below are the official Scouts of America badges and patches that the museum is able to offer full or partial requirement completion for. Patches for these programs must be provided by the troop leader for these programs, as the museum does not.
Tiger
Stories in Shapes
Visit our museum to look closely at works of art and talk about shapes. Decide what you like about the art, and share your ideas with the other Tigers. Then head to the studio to draw or create an art piece using shapes and tangrams to help with your design.
Merit Badge: Art
Wolf
Fit to Print
Welcome to Printmaking! Scouts will learn about this art form and use the block printing technique to make colorful note cards to take home.
Merit Badge: Be an Artist
Take a Closer Look
Learn to look at art a little differently! Through a series of games in the Art museum and the making of a 19th-century optical illusion toy, scouts will discover how line, shape and color make all the difference
Merit Badge: Be an Artist
Colorful World
Visit our Art museum to experience the world through an artist’s eyes. Then enter our studio and mix colors to create your own masterpiece.
Merit Badge: Be an Artist
Bear
Carriage Adventure
Become a carriage salesperson and search the museum’s collection for the perfect vehicle for your customer’s needs. Does it have the right features, storage, and finish? Convince your fellow scouts!
Merit Badge: The Past is Exciting and Important
Fit to Print
Welcome to Printmaking! Scouts will learn about this art form and use the block printing technique to make colorful note cards to take home.
Merit Badge: Art
Schoolhouse Adventure
Step back in time to a 19th-century Schoolhouse. Under the direction of a costumed schoolmarm, scouts will saw wood, write with dip pens, figure on slateboards, read from a McGuffey Reader, and play old-fashioned recess games.
Merit Badge: The Past is Exciting and Important
Take a Closer Look
Learn to look at art a little differently! Through a series of games in the Art museum and the making of a 19th century optical illusion toy, scouts will discover how line, shape, and color make all the difference.
Merit Badge: Art
Colorful World
Visit our Art museum to experience the world through an artist’s eyes. Then enter our studio and mix colors to create your own masterpiece.
Merit Badge: Art
Webelo
Art Explosion (Steps 1, 2, & 4)
Visit our art museum to view the current exhibition. Then head to the studio to create two self-portraits using two different techniques, such as drawing, painting, printmaking, or sculpture.
Merit Badge: Artist
Art Explosion (Steps 1, 3, & 4)
Visit our art museum to view the current exhibition. Then head to the studio to do two of the following:
- Draw or paint an original picture outdoors, using the art materials of your choice.
- Use clay to sculpt a simple form.
- Create a comic strip with original characters. Include at least four panels to tell a story centered on one of the points of the Scout Law.
Merit Badge: Artist
