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Girl Scout Programs

The Holden Arboretum has year-round programming where Girl Scouts can earn badges and patches in a unique outdoor environment. Cost is $5 per girl, except where noted, and girls will receive their patch at the end of the program to take home. Pre-registration is required and space is limited. Call 440.602.3833 for questions or to register.

       Winter Programs (November – February)

Brownies – Plants Try It!

What better place to learn about plants than at an arboretum?  This indoor/outdoor program will show you how cool plants are.

Juniors – Frosty Fun Badge

Join us as we venture outside to learn about snow and ice.  There is a lot of fun to be had outdoors in the winter.  We might even go snowshoeing.

Sugarbush Fun Patch (March)

All ages – Come take a self-guided tour of a sugarbush.  Learn about the process, tap a tree, sample the sweet stuff and leave with a Fun Patch.

Cost : $4 per girl

Outdoor Creativity (April – June)

Juniors – Be inspired by nature and create some of your own works of art.

Wildlife (May – October)

Juniors – Learn all about birds and the habitats they need to survive. You will use a self-led backpack to complete this badge. Badge will have to be purchased from your Troop Leader upon completion.

Cost: $2 per girl

Spring Girl Scout Day  

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Water is one of our most important natural resources. Learn what lives in it, who
depends on it, how to conserve it and why we can’t live without it. 

                    Brownies – Water Everywhere Try It     10am – Noon

                              Juniors    – Water Wonder Badge         1:30 – 4:30 pm

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Cub Scout Programs

at The Holden Arboretum 2008

The Holden Arboretum has year-round programming for Cub Scouts. Learn and have fun in a unique outdoor environment. Cost for all programs is $3 per scout, except for the Bird Safari, which is $2 per scout. All programs are 90 minutes long. Call 440.602.3833 to register.

Tigers    Plants (November – February)

What better place to learn about plants than at anarboretum? This indoor/outdoor program will show you that plants are the coolest things around. Complete Let’s Go Outdoors Achievement 5d, 5g and elective 30 - Plant a Seed.

                   Bird Safari (May – October)

Learn all about birds and what they need to survive. Use a self-led backpack to complete Let’s Go Outdoors Achievement 5g and elective 31- Learn about Animals & elective 32 - Feed the Birds. Cost: $2 per scout.

Wolf        Plants (November – February)

What better place to learn about plants than at an arboretum?  This indoor andoutdoor program will show you that plants are the coolest things around. Complete the Grow Something electives 15c and e.

Bears    Bird Safari (May – October)

Learn all about birds and what they need to survive. Use a self-led backpack to complete Achievement 5 – Sharing Your World with Wildlife. Cost: $2 per scout.

Webelos   Forester (Year Round, beginning April 2008)

Study a forest in a forest. Learn how trees grow, how to identify them, how to tell their age and how animals use them.  Scouts will complete the Forester badge.

Sugarbush Fun Patch (March)

All ages – Come take a self-guided tour of a Warren Bicknell Jr. Sugarbush. Learn about the process, tap a tree, sample the sweet stuff and leave with a Fun Patch. Cost : $4 per Scout.