On Sunday night we had our second Girl Scouts activity, a Halloween-themed exploration of the five senses. First up, taste! Mike and Mieke, who were running the show, had filled Dixie cups with four drinks, the components of our witches brew. The first cup was full of unsweetened cranberry juice and downing it led to a lot of funny puckered faces.
A hand-shaped ice cube in the finished punch.
Elia introducing the next activity, to explore touch. The girls had to reach into a bucket and decide what they were feeling, and match the bucket number to their six options (bird bones, ears, intestines, eyeballs, teeth, and brains). They were so disgusted and grossed out and giggling madly.
Next sense... smell! There were four bottles filled with magical ingredients: witches breath and goblin socks among them ... aka anchovy paste, dillweed, blue cheese, and cloves.
Next sense, sight! We looked at a series of optical illusions and discussed what we could each see. The photo below has both a duck and a bunny.
And finally, hearing! We got on our jackets and rainboots and ventured out for a night-time, flashlight-lit stroll around Mill Pond Park. We tried (kind of, sort of) to be very quiet and focus on what we could hear in the dark. It was a little spooky and scary, but a whole lot of fun.
We played a a few rounds of Red Light Green Light and What Time is it Mr. Fox? in the grassy fields of the park, and then trooped back to the meeting room for cookies and GS badges.
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