Lots of BSA troops have a Class B Uniform, or a scout T-shirt with a logo and troop numbers. In Watertown, we learn how to screen print to make our own.
One of our scout parents, established artist Sheri Kennedy, took up the challenge of making Class B shirts that would match our summer camp week theme of the 80s. Working with a team of scouts, she led them through the process of selecting the best design created by the troop, refining it so it could be easily screen printed, and creating a screen so scouts could print the shirts on T-shirts to wear at camp.
Next comes the process where we print two shirts for 37 scouts and one for six adult leaders.
Following is the technique we used to print shirts.
On each scout’s Class A uniform, the formal brown shirts we wear, there’s a patrol patch signifying which patrol he/she/they is in.
How to keep patrol unity in a sea of neon-green shirts? Hand-carved patrol patches to the rescue! We learned how to block print these, choosing pink or purple ink, depending on the taste of the patrol. We have four patrols: These are Onion Warriors and Baconators. Not shown are Flaming Donuts and Banana Bandits.
This is the process of block printing a patrol stamp.
We hope you agree the end result was fantabulous. On Class B days, it was super-obvious who was with the coolest troop in camp.
Scouting America Troop 30 