Boy Scouts

Cub Scouts

Making My Family Special - Tiger Scouts
Go See It! Visit our Park and discover how family life was the same and how it was different many years ago. Scouts will have the opportunity to visit the oldest family home in Dayton and participate in hands-on activities that help them experience daily life for a pioneer child. 60 minutes.

Tools for Fixing and Building - Wolf Scouts
Scouts will compare modern tools with their antique counterparts as displayed within Carillon Historical Park’s exhibits. After learning proper safety procedures, they will construct a useful item to take home. 60 minutes..

Tall Tales - Bear Scouts
This program allows scouts to learn some of Ohio’s folklore stories from one of our Park’s storytellers. Scouts will visit the buildings associated with these stories, sing a folk song, and be able to explain folklore in their own words. 60 minutes.

Webelos
Technology Group Engineer
Visit the Park’s 1930s working print shop, watch a printing
demonstration, and compare how people communicated in the past to communication methods used today. Scouts will participate in a scavenger hunt to identify other methods of communication exhibited in the Park’s buildings. 75 minutes.

Scouts

A single, 90-minute Carillon Historical Park program experience can be scheduled to fulfill many of the requirements for the following merit badges:

Aviation
Gardening
Genealogy
Railroading
Textiles

Partial requirements for other merit badges may be completed upon request. Please contact the Department of Education and Program Services for additional information.

 

Girl Scout Programs

Brownies
Listening to the Past
Visit Dayton’s oldest building: Newcom Tavern, the
William Morris House and Locust Grove School #12. Imagine you are a student from 1896 and experience a school day as it was over a century ago, with early lessons, schoolwork and games.
90 minutes.

Movers
How does an airplane fly? What famous Daytonians invented and flew the first airplane? Learn the answers to these questions and more in Movers. Participants will make a ring glider, a paper copter, experiment with a balloon rocket and learn about Bernoulli’s Principle. 60 minutes.

Juniors
Architecture
Examine early building methods and materials found in the Miami Valley, make a building “footprint” to compare historic buildings and then construct your own building. 75 minutes..

Science Sleuth
Learn about the six types of simple machines, perform experiments and then go on a scavenger hunt to find simple machines exhibited on original train and trolley cars. Visit a 1930s Print Shop to see how printing was done in the past. 75 minutes..

Local Lore
Tour the many buildings and exhibits at Carillon Historical Park to learn about the rich history of Dayton and the Miami Valley.

Cadettes/Seniors
Inventions and Inquiry
What do the electric starter for the automobile, the airplane, the cash register and the pop-top can all have in common? They were all invented in Dayton, Ohio. Discover what it takes to become an inventor and examine inventions, innovations and the patenting process while learning about some of Dayton’s most famous inventors. 60 minutes.


SCHEDULING
To schedule a program, please call
(937) 293-2841 ext. 101

The park is open year round
Scout programs can be scheduled year-round by special arrangement.
Weekend programs are also available by special arrangement.
After school scout programs can be held Tuesday - Friday.


FEES
Cost for scouting programs is $2.00 per scout. A minimum amount of $40 is required to cover the cost of materials. For groups under 20 scouts, a fee will be charged to make up this difference.

Individual scouts working on merit badges can be accommodated by special arrangement