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Sunday, December 2 Share Your Ideas! All of our troops do service projects throughout the year and this page is for sharing our ideas. If your troop has done something that isn't listed here, please let me know about it and I'll add it. Thanks! --Mary Ellen (mersmith62@hotmail.com) Birthday Boxes For years, Waltham Girl Scout troops have been putting together "Birthday Boxes" and donating them to family shelters in Waltham. A Birthday Box is essentially a party kit -- cake mix, frosting, paper goods, goodie bags, etc. We usually decorate the box with wrapping paper and enclose a birthday card signed by all the girls. We no longer donate them directly to shelters (see Birthday Wishes, below, for more on that) but if your troop would like to create a Birthday Box, you can donate them to the Head Start office in Waltham: Creative Start, 80 Hall Street, Waltham, 781-647-0542. (Their office is the little brick building near the playground at Lowell and High Streets.) Birthday Wishes This is a wonderful organization that coordinates birthday parties for family shelters in the Boston area, including all of the shelters in Waltham. They have a website and a newsletter with information on how you can help -- by donating specific items to specific birthday parties, by volunteering to help out at a birthday party, etc. Check out their website here: http://www.birthdaywishes.org/ for more information. Thursday, October 22 Cradles to Crayons This link takes you to Cradles to Crayons, a wonderfully run, non-profit organization in Quincy that takes donations of clothing, toys, and school supplies for homeless and low-income children in Massachusetts. Check out their website here: www.cradlestocrayons.org. Meals on Wheels Tray Favors Another service project that Waltham Girl Scouts have been doing for years is donating "tray favors" to the Meals on Wheels program in Waltham, which is coordinated through the Stanley Senior Center on Main St. Tray favors are items that can be added to the trays of food that are delivered to senior citizens -- refrigerator magnets, bookmarks, suncatchers, etc. Please don't donate items with candy or candles. They like to receive tray favors in batches of 50 or 100, but they'll take smaller quantities, too. The Meals on Wheels Office is located at the Stanley Senior Center, 488 Main St. (across from the KFC). Call the Waltham Council on Aging at 781-314-3300 and ask for the Meals on Wheels coordinator. One Warm Coat A great organization that helps you collect and donate winter coats. Their website http://www.onewarmcoat.org/ will provide you with ideas for running a coat drive, with promotional signs you can download, etc. Build-a-Bear Do you have money from cookie sales that you're looking to spend on a service project? Consider having your troop make bears at Build-a-Bear and donating them to a local children's hospital or children's emergency room. This is a two-part service project: one day to go to Build-a-Bear to create the bears and one day for a field trip to donate them. Contact Build-a-Bear to set up a "party" (http://www.buildabear.com/party/default.aspx?sc_hpan=Top-Center ) or call them at the Burlington Mall: 781-272-5155 or at the Natick Mall: 508-651-0241 and then decide where to donate them: Children's Hospital Waltham 781-xxx-xxx, Newton-Wellesley Hospital Pediatric ER: 617-xxx-xxxx. Blankets, Blankets, Blankets Have your troop make blankets and donate them to Project Linus (http://www.projectlinus.org/). Their website has ideas and links to patterns for creating blankets (quilted, crotcheted, or tied). One of the easiest blankets for girls to make is the no-sew fleece blanket (click here for instructions: http://www.allkindsofbabystuff.com/no_sew_fleece_blankets.html). For a more ambitious project, your girls could create a crib-size quilt to donate. Each girl can be responsible for creating a 9-block square, either sewn or with a drawing using fabric-transfer crayons. This requires older girls or adults to cut and coordinate all the fabric and someone with a sewing machine to put together all the squares. Contact Mary Ellen (mersmith62@hotmail.com) for step-by-step instructions. |
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