Two for our Community Tuesday

  Citizen leaders are important in our community.  It is important that youth develop the compassion for the people and community in which they live.  Starting early and letting our youth develop this life skill is important to the future of our society.  That's why we thought we would do a whole day of community service projects, thus making this Two for Our Community Tuesday.
  Needless to our say our day started with getting settled in by coloring and playing games in the morning.  Our youth are learning new games and making friends and it's fun for them to ease into their day this way.  Of course then there is the what I learned and what I liked segment as we review the day before, and I can say this group learned a whole lot on Messy Monday and it had nothing to do with cleaning up.  We reviewed our upcoming day and broke into two groups for the activities.
  One group headed to the kitchen to make dog treats for K-9's at the Humane Society.  They learned how to measure, roll things out, and used a paw shaped cookie cutter to cut them.  As their treats were baking the campers made get well cards for folks going through chemo therapy.  They all said they hope that their card brings a smile and hopefully some healing to someone else.
  While one group was in the kitchen the other was in the auditorium working on some other projects.  Our campers got to play with their socks, ok maybe not their socks, but some brand new fuzzy socks and turned them into sock cupcakes.  To make these sock cupcakes a little sweeter they topped them off with a Dum Dum lollipop.  These sock cupcakes will go to nursing homes and patients in Hospice House as a gift from our youth to hopefully let them know that someone they haven't even met, cares about them.  After finishing making their cupcakes, our youth learned how to make a quick release paracord bracelet.  These will be sent to Operation Gratitude to be sent out with their care packages to soldiers, law enforcement, and first responders.  Of course they were so excited with their new skills and the colors of the paracord that they also made one for themselves to take home.
  After snack our groups switched places and got to try out what they hadn't done the first time.  When it was all said and done they had made more than 100 dog treats for the humane society, more than a dozen quick release paracord bracelets for Operation Gratitude, and we have 16 sock cupcakes getting ready to be donated.  How much more awesome can a group get?
  Thanks to Mrs. Wendy we had an awesome spaghetti lunch and had a moment to relax before heading back to all our fun.
  Our afternoon started with a project we didn't get to finish on Monday and fit into our community service day really well, vermicomposting.  Vermicomposting is the process of composting food waste by feeding it to worms and letting them eat, digest it, and make it into fertilizer.  We got to touch and help make the coconut brick into their new home and adding 40 red wigglers into the can of worms.  We also fed them salad from the day before...it was really awesome.  We can't wait to check on them tomorrow.
  Before we knew it it was time for Mrs. Tamika.  We played a game about grains and learned about the parts of a grain and then we got down to business.  We got to try the most awesome of parfaits.  This one had yogurt, Cheerios, granola, and blueberries.  It was the most yummiest of treats and not a single camper who tried it could just have one helping, everyone had to have two or more.
 As we were finishing our treat we realized it was time for our rides to come and get us.  Can't wait to get home and go to bed so we can come back for Wacky Science Wednesday tomorrow.