Learn To Not Burn
Ella Peña is on a mission to teach kids that sun safety can be fun — one SPF lesson at a time. ☀️
A big idea with a sunny heart
For her Girl Scout Gold Award — the highest award a Girl Scout can earn — Ella created Learn To Not Burn, a project dedicated to teaching young kids why protecting your skin matters and how easy (and fun!) good sun habits can be.
Through games, coloring, and hands-on activities, Ella makes sun safety click for the age group that needs it most. At her booth at Green Day in Miami Shores, kids who answered sun-safety questions correctly earned their very own sunscreen — turning learning into a reward they could take home and actually use.
Bask Suncare is proud to support Ella by giving her project a home right here on our site — because we believe the skin you're in is worth celebrating and protecting.
Sun-safety in action
Snapshots from Ella's booth, where kids learned, played, and earned their own sunscreen. Swipe through →
Teaching kids to protect their skin for life
From classroom lessons to community events, Ella is helping kids understand sun safety — and the long-term effects of sun damage that quietly build up over a lifetime. Her message is simple: good skin habits are easiest to keep when you start young.
Having five or more blistering sunburns between the ages of 15 and 20 can increase the risk of melanoma by as much as 80%.
More than 90% of skin cancers are caused by exposure to the sun's UV rays — which is exactly why everyday protection matters.
Sources: American Academy of Dermatology & The Skin Cancer Foundation.
Sunshine, smiles & SPF
Portraits by Meg Pukel Photography
Ella's sun-safety activities
Dive into the activities Ella created to make sun safety stick. Start with the word search below — then keep exploring!
Sun-Safety Word Search
Find all 18 hidden words — a sunny mix of sunscreen, Girl Scout, and Miami terms! Click the first letter, then the last letter of a word to select it. Words hide across, down, and diagonally (and some run backwards!).
Find these words
Thank you, Ella! ☀️
We're so proud to support Ella's Gold Award journey. Want to join the mission? Wear sunscreen, reapply often, and pass it on.
A Girl Scout Gold Award Project · In partnership with Bask Suncare · Portraits by Meg Pukel Photography