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Are you interested in what life was like for girls living in Saratoga during the American Revolution? Check this out!

Learn More about the daily lives of girls during the revolution

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Saratoga’s Revolutionary Girls Patch Program icon-star-red

Cadettes Brynn and Mackenzie have created the Saratoga’s Revolutionary Girls Patch Program to teach you about what daily life was like for girls during the American Revolution!

Use the resource guide below to learn about what they wore, how they worked and played, and what they ate! Top it off with a visit to one of the great sites that make up Saratoga National Historical Park. When you’ve completed all the steps, you can earn a fun patch! Click on the resource below to get started!

Silver Award Project 2025

This patch program will help people of all ages learn about the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution at the Saratoga National Historical Park and the daily lives of girls during that time period. Participants will learn about toys and games from the late 1700s as well as clothing, chores, recipes, and require a visit to the Saratoga National Historical Park.

For Girl Scouts to earn the patch (or an ink stamp for non Girl Scouts) people must complete ONE or more activities in EACH of the following FIVE steps. Troop leaders or trusted adults are responsible to check that FIVE activities have been completed.

Step 1: Learn about 18th century clothing
  • Look at our pictures available at saratoga250.com and learn about what girls wore & explain the items to someone else
  • Name two types of fabric commonly used in clothing in the 1770s.
  • Ask about clothes at a period appropriate living history event.
  • Draw or make your own 18th century style hat or cap.
Step 2: Learn an 18th century game
  • Graces
  • Trundling Hoop
  • Cup and Ball
  • Marbles
Step 3: Make an 18th century recipe
  • Sally Lunn bread
  • Cheese
  • Butter
  • Liberty tea
  • Learn how to make your own food at a living history event
Step 4: Learn about 18th century chores
  • FIRE: Learn how to build different styles of camp, cook fires, and how to start a fire
  • WATER: Race your friends while carrying buckets of water (race for distance or to fill a container)
  • FABRIC: learn how to sew, weave, or stitch (knit, crochet, embroidery or cross stitch)
  • Ask about chores at a period correct living history event
Step 5: Visit a site at the SNHP

Talk to an interpreter, read the interpretive signs, and then imagine what the location looked, sounded and smelled like in 1777. Take a selfie to share at #saratoga250 #BattlesofSaratoga

  • Sword Surrender Site
  • Victory Woods
  • Gen. Philip Schuyler House
  • Saratoga Monument
  • Saratoga Battlefield

If you can’t visit in-person, please go to the Schuyler House website and do the virtual tour: https://www.nps.gov/sara/learn/photosmultimedia/schuyler-house-virtual-tour.htm

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Receiving a Patch icon-star-red

To receive the patch, you must be a registered Girl Scout. For all others, you may earn a ink stamp. Once you have completed FIVE activities and checked them with your responsible adult, to be awarded the patch/stamp please visit:

The Saratoga County Historian’s Office in Ballston Spa
The Saratoga County History Center at Brookside Museum in Ballston Spa

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