Saturday, November 12

I volunteered at a Detroit Community Health Fair on Saturday, November 12th. The fair consisted of health screenings for kids, check ups, free massages, and participants received gift cards from Target along with bags of treats for kids. Arts and Scraps anticipated over 50-60 kids to attend this fair, however only about 20 kids (with parents) came only. It was a pretty slow going. The theme again was Turkey head bands, and was helping kids making them out of recycled art materials. It was fun, but I was expected to hit the ground running helping tons of kids make art projects. 2-3 kids showed up about every 20 minutes. I was sort of disappointed with a parent who didn't want to participate in helping her two daughters make art projects. I literally was "doing" their art project. I felt that the parent could've made more of an effort to help her daughters encouraged them to be creative. :-(
Even though the fair promoted a great cause in helping people in the community who may or may not have health insurance get free health screenings and check ups for kids, I guess Arts and Scraps expected a much bigger turn out. Since it wasn't as busy, I made my own turkey head band, it was actually fun! Its amazing how creative you can be with so much recycled materials!

Tomorrow

I plan to volunteer with Arts and Scraps at a Detroit Health Fair tomorrow. Looking forward to it, especially since it has a Thanksgiving theme. :-) Soon approaching is the end of the semester, and I wonder if I will continue to volunteering with Arts and Scraps?....probably so, I need the experience, however there were classmates that discussed their experiences at Art and Soul that I really want to be a part of. If only they were open on Saturdays. :-( We'll see how next semester turns out.

Last Thursday, October 27

Last Thursday, I volunteered with Julie from Arts & Scraps at Stevenson Elementary School for an after school Harvest celebration event. It was quite enjoyable. The children met after school around 6pm dressed in their Halloween costumes. I must express the children were adorable. We were stationed in the Art room, were we set up our art materials. The project entailed creating turkey headbands out of various materials such as yarn, stickers, old tickets, scraps of loose paper, and glitter sand. A very creative concept turned into an enjoyable project for parents to participate. One of the most enjoyable moments was reminiscing on my childhood in an art classroom. The classroom contained so many pictures of various artworks from world famous artists. The classroom was very inviting for students. I could tell that the teacher wanted to enhance learning by associating colors with nature photos, and famous artworks. I loved my time there, I loved being able to help children enhance their creativity in their art projects. Children's faces lit up when they were done, even some parents wanted to make turkey headbands! I believe overall the art is teaching the children to make and create independently. This builds a sense of accomplishment.

I'm looking forward to the next events. Arts & Scraps has expressed a lot of appreciation to me in participating and helping their events be a success.