[Counselors] FW: Service Project Ideas

[OSRHEStudent Prep PK-12 Counselor Discussion Board]

Alphabet soup?  Bring an item of food that starts with your last name.


What if you did a food drive "drive-thru"? You could designate one specific time for parents to drive-thru and drop off items. This way, they wouldn't be entering the building. Or, you could do a gift card drive- request gift cards for local grocery stores and then divvy them up to those in need.

Amy L. Whitewater, M.Ed.
Community Manager- Project AWARE
Woodward Public Schools
580-256-6063 x 3547
[have a good week]


Could you do a grocery gift certificate drive in place of items?

On Mon, Oct 12, 2020 at 8:06 AM OSRHEStudent Prep PK-12 Counselor Discussion Board <counselors at lists.onenet.net<mailto:counselors at lists.onenet.net>> wrote:
I just wanted to see if my wonderful SC community had any great ideas for me on how to help modify a service project under COVID conditions.

Every year I head up a school wide food drive for the local homeless shelter in our community.  Classes participate by bringing Thanksgiving Dinner food items that the shelter can use to feed the homeless residents during the holiday season.  Students bring turkeys, hams, pies, canned goods, etc. all the trimmings.  We collect all the goods over one week, and I keep track of items brought by homerooms and give the kids points for participating.  At the end of the week that class that earned the most participation points earns a pizza party and extra recess with me.

However this year, we are very strict on items being brought in to the building, extra hallway traffic, and we are not allowing parents in.  So it would be a little more difficult to have a traditional food drive (as normally the parents would bring in big grocery bags).

Does anyone have any ideas on how I could modify or change my project up under these conditions?  If so, please share!

I appreciate your time, help, and ideas!!  God Bless!

~Rebekah

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