Rainbow Banana Badge

Rainbow banana, we all tried to make the most beautiful one, the silliest one, the most disturbed one. We used food coloring, all the bowls in my kitchen, and fingers which were soon all kinds of colors. Our troop was competing in a contest which might lead to a girl scout badge being honored in our name. “Rainbow” and “banana” were the first two suggestions, and they ran with it, being seven and eight. This project was a dismal semi-success. The end projects were disgustingly weird, non-appetizing. The girls did not realize it, they were shrieking and laughing, and loving the dye on their hands. They were one hundred percent confident, and began designing the rainbow badge in their conversation. I sat back and wisely kept my counsel, and naysaying opinions to myself as one particularly enthusiastic child announced that we would most undoubtedly be named troop of the world for this terrific idea. Youth. Nothing like it. The enthusiasm and hilarity continued, as I quieted myself.