Senior Girl Scout organizes Daisy tea
Girl Scout Senior Tristen Ebel held a tea Saturday for Girl Scout Daisies, in kindergarten and first grade.
MOSES LAKE - Every year, the leaders of Moses Lake area Girl Scout troops organize a tea for the Girl Scout Daisies, girls in kindergarten and first grade.
But this year, Senior Girl Scout and high school sophomore Tristin Ebel took the reigns.
On Saturday, the Daisies entered Moses Lake Christian Academy wearing delicate, colorful dresses accompanied by complementary berets, hair clips and even a few tiaras. Ornate tables stood before them, draped in immaculate white table cloths, intricately folded napkins resting at each place setting. In the back of the room sat a smorgasbord of delectable food - cucumber sandwiches, fruit kabobs, lemon curd tarts and merengues. And of course, a tea party would not be complete without tea - pitchers of black, herbal and peach tea sat alongside the food.
It was all the result of Ebel's hard work.
Girls at each level of Girl Scouts are encouraged to organize a project based on Girl Scout books they read, explained Troop Leader Kat Stebbins.
"As the ages get higher, the projects get bigger and more intense," she said.
Ebel read, "Sow What?" which encourages Senior scouts explore food issues, such as locally grown food, land use and food shortages.
Stebbins and Carol Hohn, Ebel's troop leader, approached Ebel with the idea of organizing the tea for the Daisies and connecting it to the food issues she'd learned about.
"After thinking about it, it really seemed like something I'd love to do," Ebel said.
Local products were used to make the food served at the tea. The food choices were also designed to expose the Daisies to new food.
"We try to get new experiences for the Daisies all the time," said Stebbins.
Planning the event took more effort than Ebel at first anticipated.
"It took a lot of organizing exactly what we needed to have baked, finding out what the girls liked versus what I would think would be served at a tea, a lot of research into what would be expected at a tea party," said Ebel.
Ebel had help from several Girl Scout Juniors, girls in fourth and fifth grades, who served the Daisies their food and tea.
The event couldn't be without fun and games. The girls played "flower petal bingo," and won prizes corresponding to the theme of food and farming - including hand trowels, gardening gloves, flower coloring books and flower seeds.
Yacine Dieng, 7, had difficulty choosing one thing she liked best about the experience.
"Honestly, I like all of it," she said.
For some of the girls, it was their first time drinking tea. Others, like Reagan White, 7, had enjoyed tea before. She liked the peach tea the best - especially with sugar cubes added, she said.
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