Day Thirteen: April 2, 2012

Luis is the sweetest child ever!

This the first day of our service project week.  The library is having a three day Easter "Camp" where kids can go for four hours a day and do different Easter activities.  I worked the morning shift with Parker, Jessica, Kristen, and Elizabeth.  It was so much fun! There was 20 kids and they are between the ages of 7 and 10.  I felt out of my element at the beginning because we dont do these kind of activities at the high school level! I was really grateful for my elementary education majors today.  We started the day with reading the Easter Story.  The kids really love story time.  We then moved on to making "stained glass" crosses out of construction paper.  That took the most amount of time, and then it was snack time.  The librarian brought sandwiches and juice boxes for the students.  We ate outside and then had an egg race.  That was really funny to watch because the kids were running all over the place.  Then it was time to go back inside and we made Easter egg baskets out of paper plates.  After we finished up with the baskets it was time for us to leave.  

It was great to spend the morning with some local children, outside of the school environment.  These kids are at such a great age.  It was awesome to get hugs and to read books like "The Monster ABC's".