Spring Camps
Spring Break Fun Camp
Keep your child busy with some educational fun during spring break! Camp will have three days to explore activities based on STEM, art, and a special mystery day.
Tuesday – Engineering Inventions
Design a container to protect an egg dropped from a significant height. Discover what household materials make the best parachutes and umbrellas in this STEM session of camp.
Wednesday – Nature Art
It’s time to get those imaginations going, using the natural world around us to make beautiful art! We will use seeds and beans to create fantastic mosaics, use leaves to make prints, and so much more.
Thursday – Mystery
Something valuable is missing from the museum! Your mission is to use forensic skills to solve it. Make a disguise, follow clues, and complete some fun puzzles along the journey.
Session I
Tuesday, March 28 – Thursday, March 30 | 10:00am – 12:00pm | $48 ($60 non-members)
Register for Ages 5 – 6 | Register for Ages 7 – 10
Session II
Tuesday, April 11 – Thursday, April 13 | 10:00am – 12:00pm | $48 ($60 non-members)
Girl Scout Events
Girl Scouts Juniors: A Victorian Tea
Civil War Museum
Saturday, October 7 | 10:00am – 12:30pm | $25 per scout | Register Here
Travel back in time and explore customs and traditions among women and girls during Victorian America. Learn about the challenges and triumphs of being a girl in this era while accomplishing a creative writing task, trying on clothes, and sharing tea and cake while learning the art of conversation.
Earned Badges: Playing the Past and Social Butterfly
Girl Scouts Brownies: Paint My World
Kenosha Public Museum
Saturday, November 18 | 10:00am – 12:30pm | $25 per scout, adults no charge but are requested to register in advance | Register Here
Using watercolors, tempera, and DIY puffy paint, experience the world of a painter and express yourself by creating four different pieces of art.
Earned Badge: Painting
Girl Scouts Juniors: Animal Habitats
Kenosha Public Museum
Saturday, January 6, 2024 | 10:00am – 12:30pm | $25 per scout | Register Here
Become a scientist and study animals in our exhibits to understand their survival adaptations, practice your observation skills with scientific illustration, and create model animal habitats. This scout program will also visit the Planet or Plastic? exhibition and discuss how plastic pollution affects animal habitats.
Earned Badge: Animal Habitats
Girl Scouts Cadettes: Forensic Science
Kenosha Public Museum
Saturday, January 27, 2024 | 9:30am – 12:30pm (check-in begins at 9:00am) | $25 per scout | Register Here
Girl Scouts learn about the exciting world of forensic science by investigating a crime! Scouts will examine the crime scene, understand the science of fingerprints, extract DNA, and recreate blood spatter patterns. After the investigation, girls will use their knowledge to solve the crime.
Earned Badge: Special Agents
Registration ends one week prior to the event. Contact [email protected] for possible openings past deadline date.
On Demand Scout Programs
Bring your troop to the museums to hunt for fossils, be inspired to create your own artistic masterpiece, or explore Wisconsin’s 19th Century past. Hold your next meeting at the museum followed by an educational program
Ages: Programming can be adapted for any age and scout level.
Dates and Times: Flexible, pending availability of museum staff.
To register contact: [email protected]
Payment with a credit or debit card is due at the time of registration.
Troop leaders may register for the scouts in their troops who will be participating.
The Kenosha Public Museums require the Safety-Wise adult to child ratio for events and trips:
- 1 adult for 5 Daisy Girl Scouts
- 1 adult for 8 Brownie Girl Scouts
- 1 adult for 10 Junior Girl Scouts
- 1 adult for 12 Cadette Girl Scouts
Refunds will be issued for cancellations received at least ten business days prior to the program. Refunds will be issued for cancellations if a replacement is registered for the canceled participant.
Cub Scouts
Cub Scouts ``Digging in the Past``
Dinosaur Discovery Museum | Maximum Number of Scouts: 30 | Cost per Scout: $12 (includes snack)
- Learn about and identify the dinosaurs at the Dinosaur Discovery Museum.
- Create a fossil cast.
- Discover how paleontologists look for and excavate fossils.
- Be a “paleontologist” and uncover dinosaur fossils.
Wolf Scouts complete the requirements to earn “Digging in the Past” badge
10 scout minimum
Girl Scouts
Lake Michigan Fossil Hunting
Kenosha Public Museum & Off-Site | Duration: 90 minutes |
Maximum Number of Scouts: 10 | Cost per Scout: $10
Hunt for fossils along the sandy shores of Lake Michigan and discover clues to Wisconsin’s ancient underwater past. Meet inside the Kenosha Public Museum for a brief introduction to the types of fossils you’ll find before heading to the lakeside fossil collection area. NOTE: This outdoor program is dependent on weather and beach conditions. Each troop is responsible for transportation to the fossil collection area (transportation not provided by the museum).
Artistic Adventures
Kenosha Public Museum | Duration: 120 minutes |
Maximum Number of Scouts: 10 | Cost per Scout: $20 (includes all supplies)
Choose an artistic exploration in printmaking, still life painting, or polymer clay. A curator will introduce the project, show technique, and assist scouts as they work on their own designs. Each scout will leave with a finished piece of artwork.
Historic Hometown
Civil War Museum | Duration: 90 minutes |
Maximum Number of Scouts: 10 | Cost per Scout: $10
Discover the life and times of Upper Midwest Civil War era soldiers and civilians using the Museum’s Fiery Trial exhibition, hands-on activities, and conversations led by museum staff. Play historic games, handle artifacts, and create your own flag while learning about our region’s history. This program fulfills several requirements of the Brownie Celebrating Community badge and the Junior Playing the Past badge.
