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10% Discounts Given to Members of Yguide program, Adventure guides,
Indian Guides and YMCA Camp Programs
Orders of 6 or more vest kits receive a 15% discount,
12 or more vest kits receive a 20% discount.

YMCA Guides and Indian Princess Vest Kits

What is the YMCA Adventure guides, Indian Guides, Indian Princess and Papoose Programs about?

Helpful instructions on guides suede leather vest kit sizing,
assembly of y-guide leather vest kits with artificial sinew
 and gluing adventure guide patches to your suede vest kit.

Nationwide Link to YMCA's Y-guides, YMCA

Adventure Guide
Indian Guide  - Indian Princess Programs

Use the our already designed Yguide and Adventure guide craft kits
or ask us to help you with you Indian crafts
Great stuff that you can make with your group.

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Due to the rising cost of gas across the nation, we know coming down to the store can cause a burden.
For your convenience we ship nationwide.
No matter how near or far, we will get it to you
Please do not hesitate to e-mail or call in your order and have us ship the items to you.


What is the YMCA Guide, Adventure guide program, Indian Guides,
Indian Princess and Papoose Programs about?

The YMCA Y-Indian Guides, Y-Indian Princesses, Y-Indian Braves and Y-Indian Maidens, also known as the YMCA Adventure Guide Program are year-round programs designed to build strong relationships between parents and their children. 
It is open to families with children in kindergarten to third grade.

The YMCA guide program was started 
by Harold S. Keltner, St. Louis YMCA Director and Joe Friday, an Ojibway Indian.

The participants in the YMCA Family Programs learn about American Indian people
their culture, their customs, crafts and games, and seek to bring new understanding and appreciation of the

Native American Heritage and the contributions Native Americans have made to our nation.
They strive to share the qualities of the American Indian culture and life: 
Dignity, Patience, Endurance, Spirituality, Feeling for the earth, and Concern for the family.

Some YMCA y-guide programs are now called YMCA Adventure guides 
but have strived to keep the Native American theme. 
The reason the YMCA uses the Native American theme is to help focus the groups, 
and to bring traditional values and organizational structure to the program.
The YMCA you join will assign you to a group called a circle or tribe,
that will meet on a regular basis in each others’ homes, weekly, biweekly or monthly. 
YMCA guides tribes/groups will get together for campouts and family outings, throughout the year 
to go on campouts, and other field trips.


The yguides aims are listed as:

1. To be clean in body and pure in heart.
2. To be pals forever with my father/son.
3. To love the sacred circle of my family.
4. To listen while others speak.
5. To love my neighbor as myself.
6. To seek and preserve the beauty of the Great Spirit's work in forest, field, and stream

To quote Joe Friday:
“The Indian father raises his son. He teaches his son to hunt, to track, to fish, to walk softly and silently in the forest, 
to know the meaning and purpose of life and all he must know, while the white man allows the mother to raise his son.”

For more information on The Adventure Guide Program, YMCA Y-Indian Guides, Y-Indian Princesses,
Y-Indian Braves and Y-Indian Maidens 
Click here for links to the YMCA's that have these programs.

Use the our already designed Craft kits for Yguide and Adventure Guide Programs
or ask us to help you with you Indian crafts.


A
dventure Guides, YMCA, Yguides Vest Sizing Assistance

Many parents would like to be able to mail order their YMCA vest kits.
To assist you in getting the correct sizing we have added this information to our site.
The child’s vest be ordered larger than the current need. 
Adult vests should have room for
bulky winter coats
and/or sweatshirts throughout the winter months of the program

Childrens' YMCA Vest sizing - sizing your Indian Princess and YMCA Guides Vest Kits

The size childs'' size large will fit most children 5-6 years of age, We suggest unless you have a smaller child that you would purchase the child's extra large vest kit to give them room to grow and allow for bulky clothing under the vest.
There is a 1-1/2" difference overall (in length, width etc) between the child's large and X-large vest kit.
If your child is in the YMCA papoose program, the Child's large would be sufficient.
There are some of the 6-8 year olds that need the adult small,
This vest is usually for children that are taller or are experiencing a growth spurt and the X-large fits them snug right now.

Adult YMCA Indian Princess and YMCA Guides Vest Sizing

The large Adult vest kits are cut high in the arms so they tend to bunch under the arms if you have broad shoulders.
Most of the adult men in the program order the X-large adult vest kits.
Woman can usually wear the adult Medium or the adult large vest kits, depending on their size.

I am Female...5'6", 140 lbs. and wear the Adult Large, the medium will fit me... but the large is more comfortable.
CowboyWC is 6'3" and wears the X-large.

We have in store ready made samples of the YMCA vests for customers to try on,
If you are not local to us you may try to ask other members of your group about their vest sizes
to determine the correct size of vest to purchase.


Y-guide Vest Assembly and Patch Gluing Instructions

  The kids yguide vest kits come with either a waxed brown thread or white kite string material for sewing them together
The adult y-guide vest kits come with a flat leather lace. like the lace used in lacing leather projects
such as wallets together, some parents have difficulty working with this lace.
Because of this difficulty, we suggest using artificial sinew to sew your YMCA vests together.
One spool of artificial sinew will sew both the adult and child's vests together and also leave extra for other projects.
You would use the needle that comes with your child's kit
to sew both vests together with the sinew.

YMCA Guides Vest Assembly Instructions - Using Artificial Sinew

There are 5 pieces in the adult vest kit and 3 pieces in the childs'' vest kit.
If you are using artificial sinew to replace the leather lace in the adult vest
Use sinew to replace the thread in the child's kit and lace in the adult kit.
Use the needle in the child's kit to sew both vests together with sinew.
You can follow the child's kit instructions that come with the kit for sewing vests together with sinew...with 1 exception...
You don't have to use the complicated step 1 of the child's vest instruction. Just thread the needle as normal and then twist.
The main goal is so the sinew will not slip off the needle while you are sewing.
When finished sewing a section, double knot the thread and melt the knot tails into the knot.
This prevents the knot from unraveling or coming untied.

Child's Kit
Measure 4X the distance you are going to sew and cut off the sinew.
Thread needle with waxed sinew and twist to secure thread onto needle.
Overlap and align shoulder holes at left back (top) panel over front panel.
Leave 2" of thread at first hole, sew along seam "in and out" running stitch to the end.
Turn and sew back to starting point filling in between previous stitches.
Double stitch through the last hole and tie ends of thread together in a square knot. Trim off the excess thread.
Melt knot into itself to secure the knot and stitching from unraveling.
Overlap and align holes of the left front  (side) panel over left back panel.
Leave 2" of thread at first hole, sew along seam "in and out" running stitch to the end.
Turn and sew back to starting point filling in between previous stitches.
Double stitch through the last hole and tie ends of thread together in a square knot. Trim off the excess thread.
Melt knot into itself to secure the knot and stitching from unraveling.
Repeat overlap steps on right side of the vest.

**NOTE**
You can overlap the seams in any way that you would like to as far as back over front, or front over back.
You can add 2 different color pony beads in the stitching to add decoration to the vest.
You would just add the beads as you are sewing...it is suggested that you only add beads to the top and side stitching.
Adding beads to the back of the adult vests will cause the beads to rub on chairs etc and make it uncomfortable.

Adult Kit
Begin by construction the back of your adult vest kit
Begin stitching at the bottom center of the vest.
Measure 4X the distance you are going to sew and cut off sinew.
(You will use 1 piece of sinew for the full back...
so measure 4X across the back and from the bottom to center of V-shape if vest)
Thread needle with waxed sinew and twist to secure thread onto needle.
Place 2 bottom back panels together, overlapping left over right.
The top panel is overlapped over BOTH bottom panels.
Leave 2" of thread at first hole, sew along seam "in and out" running stitch to the end.
Starting at bottom, go up to venter, over to the right, back to center, stitch to the left and then back to center.
Then stitch back to your starting point at the bottom center of the vest.
Double stitch the last hole and tie ends of thread together in a square knot. Trim off part of excess thread
Melt knot into itself to secure the knot and stitching from unraveling.
Follow instructions above (under Child's kit) to sew shoulders and sides of vests.

Hopefully the instructions we have created for construction of your y-guide vests using artificial sinew,
will be helpful in making your vests a project you can do with your child.

Many of the kits that we carry require similar sewing as is done with the vest,
so this is a perfect opportunity to assist your child in learning this skill so that they will be able to master the other kits as well.

Leathercraft Cement Glue Notes: Glueing your patches to your Adventure guide vest
If the back of your patch is shiny (which many of them are now), scuff up the back of the patch so that the glue will adhere.
Place the patch on the vest in the position where it will be glued.
Mark around the patch lightly with a pencil.
Put a thin coat of glue on the back of the patch and in the space you have marked out for the patch.
Allow glue to become tacky. Put patch on vest in position.
Set a book on top of the patch when the patch is on the vest to hold them together while the glue dries.
MAKE SURE that you only apply a THIN coat of glue...
If you put too much glue on the patch or vest it will seep over the sides of the patch and stain the vest.

Try to get the glue all the way to the bottom edges of the patch so that they will be fully adhered to the vest.
If the edges are not glued down this tends to cause the edges to lift and the patch to "pop off"

YMCA - Adventure Guides, Y-guides, Y-princess Events
The YMCA has a really cool program called the YMCA Y-Guides.
If you and I join, we would get to do really neat stuff together.
We would be guides and explorers who meet with other dads/moms and kids.
They would come to our house (or we would go to theirs) for meetings about once a month.
But the meetings would be fun...we’d have ceremonies and snacks and play games.
We’d also get to go on adventures in our community.
And, oh yeah, camping and being outdoors is a big part of the program.
We would wear cool vests and patches and maybe even carry walking sticks.
Let’s call the YMCA to find out how we can join.
Can we?

Many of these events are only attended by memnbers of the YMCA y-guide program,
A great program that fosters a relationship between a parent and their child.
If you are interested in attending this programs or would like more information about
the Indian Guides, Indian Princess, or papoose programs (now known at some YMCA's as Adventure Guides)
Contact the YMCA in your area and sign up!

To join in on these events you need to be a member of the YMCA guide or princess programs.
Please contact your local YMCA about joining these programs.


Triunfo Y-Guides and Y-Princesses Calendar

Triunfo Family YMCA 
31225 La Baya Dr. Suite 115 
Westlake Village CA 
91361 
818-707-YMCA (9622) 
fax 818-706-0282

The Triunfo Family YMCA
proudly serves the families of 

Agoura, Agoura Hills, 
Westlake Village, and Oak Park


Conejo Valley YMCA 
A Branch of the 
Southeast Ventura County YMCA 
The Conejo Valley YMCA proudly serves the communities of Thousand Oaks, 
Newbury Park and Moorpark.

4031 N. Moorpark Rd. 
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360 
Office: (805) 523-7613 

Y-Indian Princesses, Adventure Guides, Indian Guide Programs
Mission and symbols of the Y-Indian Princesses
The Conejo Valley YMCA

West Valley Family YMCA
18810 Vanowen St 
Reseda, California 91335 
818-774-2840

Indian Guides
Former West Valley YMCA Indian Guide Participant's 
Personal page of a brave 'n dad.


SIMI FEDERATION
Adventure Guide Program


Simi Valley Family YMCA
Y-Indian Guide Program Page

 
3200 Cochran Street 
Simi Valley, CA 93065 
Phone: 805-583-5338 
Fax: 805-583-5476


Camarillo YMCA
Indian Guide & Princess program 

located in Ventura County in Southern California. 

3111 Village at the Park Drive
Camarillo, California 93012
Phone: (805) 484-0423
Fax: (805) 388-7087



Culver Psalms YMCA
Y-Guide Program
4500 S. Sepulveda Blvd. 
Culver City, CA 90230 
(310) 390-3604 (Office) 
(310) 390-1695 (Fax)

YUKI NATION of the 
Yorba Linda, Placentia 
YMCA guide Program
18333 Lemon Drive 
Yorba Linda , CA 92886 
Phone: (714) 777-9622

For more information on Events put on by YMCA's with the Adventure Guide,
Y-Guide, Indian Guide and Princess programs or the Papoose program
visit the links for your local YMCA visit our YMCA Yguide directory
for contact information for your local YMCA y-guide, Adventure guide programs

YMCA Adventure Guide Program, Y-Indian Guide Vests, Vest Kits,
Y-guide Events to Attend

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Indian guides and YMCA Camp Programs

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