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Parents January 4, 2010 Dear Parents, Looking for service projects for your family to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. Day? We have our usual great deal for you! In an effort to encourage community service on the holiday, Moorestown Friends School is again offering opportunities for our students and families on Monday, January 18, 2010 from 10 a.m. to noon on campus. Teams of Upper & Middle School students and volunteer parents will coordinate the following activities for you to do with your children that morning. We begin with Meeting for Worship in the Meeting House planned by the Upper School MLK Club. Activity 1: Birthday Party Bags: Create Birthday Party bags for people who would not otherwise have a birthday celebration at the Devereux Foundation Group Homes for mentally challenged residents. Decorate and pack bags with cake mix, frosting, candles, decorations, paper plates, napkins and hats. In the Dining Hall. Activity 2: Holiday Boxes: Fill bags with easy crafts for holidays for the folks at Devereux. Three Dining Hall stations will have: Halloween, Winter or Valentine’s Day. One job is to make a few sample crafts. Job 2 is making simple decoration kits with supplies and directions for the Devereux residents to make for themselves (good occupational therapy). For example, one task is sorting colors of paper strips for them to make their own chains for different holidays. (It is not helpful if we make the chains for them.) Activity 3: Health Kits: In the Dining Hall, students organize and fill 2 ½ gallon plastic zip bags with toiletries for homeless people who come to New Visions and Samaritan Hospice. Bags are sorted for children to fill with toothpaste, toothbrush, soap, shampoo, hand cream, washcloth, comb, and socks. Disposable razor, deodorant and shaving cream are added for adult kits. We also need some 2½ gal. ziplock bags and drivers! Activity 4: Computer Generated Coloring Books: This activity takes place in the computer lab and Library. Copy, collate and bind pages into coloring books & attach crayons for the Birthday Bags for Devereux and New Visions. Activity 5: Knitting/Crocheting Scarves: This has become a popular quieter activity and is held in Stokes Hall. Experienced needle-workers are needed. We will provide some instruction. Participants create scarves for a woman’s shelter. Bring your own needles, if you can. Activity 6: Project Linus Blankets: Meet in the DHC to decorate a muslin square with fabric markers and then arrange and sew into simple quilts for children who are hospitalized. Activity 7: Sewing Soft Stuffed Toys: We have a pattern for very simple soft toys to sew and a couple of machines available for experienced sewers. We welcome more people to embroider eyes, “turn” the bodies, stuff and hand sew shut. Meet in the MacColl Room. If you can bring a sewing machine, please do so. These are loved at Samaritan Hospice! Activity 8: Wooden Toy Kits: Meet Middle School Kids for Peace and teachers in the woodshop to cut pieces for simple wooden toys. Parts are sanded and bagged into kits with instructions provided to Devereux homes, Samaritan Hospice and New Visions. (Lower School kids must have a parent present! Because of safety and space limitations, 25 students and parents will be able to work at a time in 30 minute shifts. You will need to come get a “ticket” for a specific time!) Activity 9: Casseroles for New Visions: An MFS parent will organize the preparation and cooking of casseroles in the cafeteria kitchen to go to New Visions. This is for Upper School students. We also will need drivers to take the food into Camden at 12:30. Activity 10: Take Action: Respond to action alerts on the websites of organizations working on issues of interest, and your Senators and Congressman. Upper Schoolers can participate by themselves; Lower and Middle School students need to be accompanied by a parent. In the music computer lab, room 105A. This day is a FAMILY service event, so….If you would like your child to participate in any part of the day, you must attend with them! THANK YOU FOR YOUR ASSISTANCE!!! Priscilla Taylor-Williams, Chester Reagan Chair for Religious Studies
Below are materials needed for donation for the Day of Service. Please bring donations to classrooms or advisors by Wednesday, January 13.
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110 E. Main Street Moorestown, NJ 08057-2949 Phone: (856) 235-2900 |
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