Under the Sea

Today, I met with Camille Squires and we discussed our plans for our project, in which we donate books to women and children at a homeless shelter. Camille had talked to Brittany Mann and got some information about the shelter along with some advice for our project.

I brought some sample books along to our meeting at a local Starbucks and we decided that we were going to give these books to the children and perhaps read a little with them, as the book was a bit more text-heavy than expected. Thus, after a reading time, we'd do some related crafts with them.

After much mulling, we decided to incorporate a "marine" and "insect" theme to correspond with our books and do paper weaving with marine animal shapes and also do a paper handprint butterfly. For our first one, we would have shapes such as fish, dolphins, whales, and octopuses cut out with little slits for paper weaving. The paper weaving bit would look something like this:

In a similar manner, children could also choose to make a handprint butterfly in which they would trace our their handprint four times and use those to make the wings of a butterfly.

We decided, after much thought, to work on our idea this weekend and try it out next saturday.
Not only is it important to recognize the global importance of helping others less unfortunate, but also to realize that my small actions through giving children a book and couple of hours of fun crafting could brighten a child's day.