There were eleven booths set up at this event, representing eleven countries... France, Netherlands, Mexico, Japan, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Egypt, Greece, Haiti, and Ireland are the countries that were chosen by the troops. Each troop was to have their members dress in "costume" to represent their chosen country. They also created a "stamp" for the passports that everyone presented when visiting your booth. Our troop had the country of Japan, so the girls dressed up in kimono robes, complete with white socks, sandals, and even decorated chopsticks in their hair!! We had a huge posterboard filled with all kinds of facts the girls found about Japan and wrote on the board. Our girls also learned about the Japanese art of origami and made their own paper fans for their costumes and even made picture frames to be sold in their booth. Every country also provided a food... our troop made "candy sushi" (no one in the troop wanted the real thing!!!) and also sold this at the booth! Our candy sushi was a Rice Krispie bar with a gummy Swedish fish on top and wrapped with a fruit roll-up... the Rice Krispies represented the rice, the fish was obviously our raw fish, and the fruit roll-up represented the seaweed!! I have to say that our sushi probably tasted much better!!! It was a great hit with all the visitors, too! Our booth also had chopsticks for sale and we even offered some free items, such as mini-parasol umbrellas and printouts of how to count to ten in Japanese, or how to play Janken... a Japanese version of "Rock, Paper, Scissors". The girls took turns in shifts working our booth. When they weren't working, they got to go around and visit all the other countries!! I think everyone had a great time! Pictures are below:
Here is our troop during the parade:
Here is a picture at our booth:
