Hello everyone!
My Girl Scout Gold Award project was at a bit of a
standstill last week. This week,
however, my mentor Karlene and I got down to business.
This week, we went shopping!
Earlier this week, we hit 5
Below and two Walmarts in order to collect some supplies we would need to make
this library a success. Our list
included: beanbag chairs, rugs, steno pads, mood lighting, and little trinkets
to fill my homemade sensory bags with. Bargain
hunting soon became the main mission of our endeavor since I was only given
$200 in grant money. We found two lava
lamps for $5 each and several steno pads for $0.88 each. Amazingly enough, we only went about $45 over
budget. We were able to check everything
off the list! Well, almost everything.
The only things I needed were library cards and pockets and a check-out
stamp. I ended up buying those
online.
Later in the week, I asked some
girls in the troop to come over and help me get some heavy work done on the
project. I set up three stations: a
filling station, a sewing station, and a pocket gluing station. The girls came over and immediately got to
work. I was busy sewing sensory
bags. A couple girls filled the bags
with various items and the rest of us sewed them shut. The girls who arrived a little later assumed
the role of gluing library pockets in the books and slipping a card into each
one. We all worked for 5 hours
straight. The lemonade and the
conversation flowed like water through a dam.
Time flew by and so did the work.
We finished 149 bags and managed to attach pockets to about 300 books. Only
221 books to go!
Next week, I plan to finally meet with my handyman and get those darn
bookshelves built. The quicker those are
knocked out, the quicker we can paint them and set them aside for later. I promise to be prompt on my next
update. Until next time!
Week Six Photos
