“Make & Take” Charity Cookie Decorating is Highlight of Santa Monica Girl Scout Event

Feb. 23, 2010 - PRLog -- February 22, 2010 -- Senior Girl Scout Troop 5515, Santa Monica, hosted the first ever “Drop in and Decorate” event in the Los Angeles area, on Sunday, February 21, 2010, from 1-4 p.m., at the Santa Monica Bay Service Unit International Thinking Day at Lincoln Middle School.

The event is held annually to celebrate World Thinking Day for Girls Scouts and Girl Guides worldwide.  

In preparation for the event, the 12 member troop of 9th and 10th grade high school students made 361 circle and flower shaped sugar cookies, multiplying the original recipe by eight, and filled cookie decorating tubes with homemade colored icing.  

They staffed a booth supervising event attendees in the decorating of two cookies each. Participants were invited to eat one cookie and donate another.  

The following day, members of the Troop bagged nearly 200 cookies and delivered them to Santa Monica’s Daybreak Shelter, at Ocean Park Community Center (http://www.opcc.net/).

Founded in 1987, Daybreak is the only program on the Westside designed for homeless women suffering from long-term debilitating mental illness. Daybreak addresses the basic needs of mentally ill women facing homelessness and poverty by providing a safe and accepting environment where they can find dignity, support, and access to information and resources needed to stabilize their lives and move into permanent housing.

Troop 5515 discovered their cookies for donation event on the website http://www.dropinanddecorate.org/.  

Their work for this event is part of earning the Senior Visionary Award and involves a program called Girltopia, in which girls consider how the world is far from perfect for girls around the world and are invited to envision an ideal world.

The teens created a video to express their vision of an ideal society in which girls are free to learn what they want and are always treated with respect.  Their video was aired at the end of the International Thinking Day program featuring nearly 20 Santa Monica area Girl Scout troops representing different countries.

International Thinking Day offers Girl Scouts a day to think about the meaning of Scouts and Guides in all the countries of the world. Many troops use it as an opportunity to study about other countries and cultures.

Troop 5515 is a Senior Girl Scout Troop based in Santa Monica California that has been together for nine years, has earned its Silver Award and is progressing toward its Gold Award, the highest achievement possible  in the Girl Scouts program.

Contact Person:  
Christina Sleeper, Co-Leader Troop 5515 ~ 310.614.6683 ~ holdersleeper@yahoo.com

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Troop 5515 is a Senior Girl Scout Troop based in Santa Monica California that has been together for nine years, has earned its Silver Award and is progressing toward its Gold Award, the highest achievementpossible in the Girl Scouts program.