Take your Junior Girl Scouts to a local theater to help them understand the details of a theater production. Purchase tickets for a child-appropriate production, such as Mary Poppins or the Princess and the Pea, and send the Scouts home with permission slips that include the cost of the tickets. You may wish to take the girls to a high-school production of a play to help them understand the importance of arts and education.
Provide the Scouts with fabric and tools to make their own masks or costumes. Create masks using construction paper, tape, yarn, glue, buttons, and markers. Cut masks out of paper and tie yarn to their sides so that the Scouts can wear the masks. After donning masks, act out scenes from a book, play, TV show or fable.
Read a play with your Junior Scouts. Give each girl a copy of the play and assign roles. Read through the entire play, acting it out, if desired. After you finish reading, discuss the characters and story. Ask Scouts to tell you all of the character traits of one character or to identify the main source of conflict. Ask them what they thought of the play and why. Did they like it or hate it? What was their favorite part?
Practice the art of acting without needing preparation or experience by playing charades. Write a list of clues, such as the name of a movie or famous person, with each clue on a separate piece of paper. Drop the paper in a hat or bowl and give each Junior Girl Scout a chance to pick a clue and act it out. During charades, girls who are acting out clues cannot use words to help other Scouts guess. They must use their movements and body language.
Purchase a set of stage makeup and teach Girl Scouts to apply makeup to each other. Give one girl the face of a clown and another the face of a mime. Call in a stage makeup expert to explain the purpose of stage makeup and apply it to some of the Junior Scouts. Get parental permission before applying makeup and use makeup that is made for sensitive skin to avoid any harmful side effects.