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!