Merrimack Girl Scout Earns Bronze Award

Mikayla Ottman from Girl Scout Troop 12129 completed her Bronze Award earlier this month.

The Bronze Award is the highest level of achievement attainable as a Junior Girl Scout. 

For her project, Mikayla chose to make sensory boxes for the Mastricola Early Education Program. MEEP is a developmental preschool program for 3- and 4-year-olds that gives children with and without special needs the opportunity to play and learn together.

The sensory boxes will help the children in the program with imaginative play, early literacy skills and provide opportunities for tactile learning.

Mikayla donated 5 boxes to the program:

1. Music Box: Drums, shakers tambourine and many other items that make sounds.
2. Bean Box: Various colored beans, measuring cups, tongs and ice cube trays for sorting and play.
3. Lacing Box: Colored pasta and various strings and laces to assist with sorting, patterns and lacing,
4. Rainbow Box: Colored pom poms with tongs and tubes for color sorting, color cards, colored stress balls, and other items to show various colors. Used for sorting and identifying colors,
5. Letters & Numbers Box: Magnetic letters and numbers, alphabet cards, foam letters, word cards and magnetic tray to assist with early literacy.