Girl Scout Troop Taking Fun to Plainfield School

Warren Junior Girl Scout Troop 789 will be bringing the fun to a special event planned for the King’s Daughters Day School in Plainfield, next week

The Girl Scouts have organized a special Fun Fair for the under-priviledged students at the school, following a book drive unertaken in May, as part of the Scouts' Bronze Award projects based on the theme of  “Kids Helping Kids.”

Junior Girl Scout Troop 789 consists of 10 fifth-grade students, most of whom have been Girl Scouts since they were in kindergarten. These Girl Scouts have spent the past two years working on earning the  Bronze Award.

Members include Nicole Regimbal, Bianca Bicalho, Sydney Beck, Melissa Hertzberg, Nicole Salk, Gabrielle Regimbal, Alexandra Schell, Morgan Sena, Lindsay Fogel and Lauren Hanna.

All of Troop 789’s hard work from the past two years has led up to this exciting and rewarding event. The girls have been soliciting donations, collecting toys and games, creating flyers and signs, organizing and selecting the activities, as well as making bracelets for the children.  The activities, all organized and run by the girls, will include a bouncy house, digging for treasure, fishing, bean bag toss, guess the right key for a stuffed animal pound, stickers and stamps, roller coaster ride, and more. They have arranged for face painting from a famous local artist, Osh Gosh B’ Gosh and Carters Children’s stores will give out stickers for the children and coupons to their stores, and Health Barn USA will make smoothies.  

For the Fun Fair, the Scouts have also arranged a number of doantions from area busiensses. Fresh, a Basking Ridge cafe, will be donating food trays for the children of the school attending the Fun Fair. Also, donations from local vendors including  Dance Express, Hallmark, Adam's Pet Safari, Target and Wal-Mart will be helping to support the project.

The Scouts spent last year earning required badges and patches by learning about child and baby care, how to become leaders and manage an event, as well as becoming better listeners, friends and communicators. So far in 2011, the Girl Scouts of Troop 789 have held food and toy drives for needy New Jersey children, as well as a special book drive for the children of the King’s Daughters Day School. The goal was to collect 450 books, or three books per child, but they actually collected more than 1,100 books for the school.

The girls had the opportunity to visit the school in May to drop off the books and to read to the children, an activity enjoyed by all. 

The upcoming Fun Fair will be held at KDDS at 502 W. Front St., in Plainfield, from 4 to 6 p.m. on June 16.

King’s Daughters Day School is a 104-year old not-for-profit school serving 150 mobile infants, toddlers and pre-school students who reside in Middlesex, Union and Somerset Counties.   The school is supported by United Way, grants, donations, Board of Trustees fundraising, and parent fees.  The tuition is based  on a sliding scale determined by family size and income. Established in 1906, KDDS prides itself on educating and preparing the youngest of students for future endeavors.  The value of the education received is even more critical at such an early age.  KDDS understands the real challenges faced by today’s working families, and believes no child should be denied a first-rate education because of inadequate finances.  Through generous donations and fee subsidies for tuition, many children who might not otherwise be able to enroll in KDDS are now thriving students.  Typically, the school subsidizes the tuition of all of its students.