Each month HandsOn has a DIY project you can do any time, any place (or you can even plan on doing it one day, but then really do it a couple days later).  Find out more about HandsOn Greater Richmond’s DIY Volunteering initiative here.

We’ve partnered up with HandsOn and will post the DIY for the month here on Richmondmom, but you want to get out and about you can find more volunteering opportunities for you or the whole family on their website.

 

 Make Easter Eggs for Southside Child Development Center & Peter Paul Development Center

Southside Child Development Center and Peter Paul Development Center are both community resources dedicated to supporting children and families by giving them a safe, consistent, structured, and loving environment in which communities can thrive through services like childcare, after school programming, summer programs and initiatives that support the whole family. Both of these organizations coordinate an annual Easter egg hunt and need assistance getting eggs ready for the children to find. DIY volunteers will assemble plastic Easter eggs and providing Easter baskets that will be used in the events at each of these centers, bringing some fun and joy to the children and their families.

Supplies*

30-40 plastic Easter eggs

Candy or toys to fill each (instructions and restrictions will be in full instructions)

2 baskets that can be used to collect eggs

*Volunteers are responsible for purchasing any of the materials needed for DIY opportunities.

How To:
1. Express Interest in the project to HandsOn. We’ll send you instructions and plan for your delivery.
2. Every person who plans to volunteer (including youth) must express interest. You can create a volunteer team to sign up your group or family members. Read about how to create and manage teams. 
3. Plan the time and place to DIY.
4. Once you’ve expressed interest, complete instructions will be sent to you. We ask that you donate a minimum of 30-40 Easter eggs and 2 baskets. There is no maximum. Expect the total project to be done in about 2 hours depending on the number of eggs made and the number of people you have volunteering with you.

Confirmed participants will receive 2 hours for submitting materials prior to 4pm, Tuesday, March 31, 2015.

Sign up here.

This project is Drop In, Drop Out and designed specifically to engage youth and their families. Volunteers can come at any time during the 10am-12pm window on January 19th, 2015 and are expected to work for no more than 30 minutes. This project allows those who cannot commit to a full project a chance to serve (and it wouldn’t work if everyone stayed the entire time anyway!)

Volunteers will:
• bring in new or gently used children’s books appropriate for Pre-Kindergarten-Fifth grades
• decorate at least 2 Martin Luther King inspired bookmarks- one for themselves, and one to be given to a child at Chamberlayne or Laburnum Elementary School

There is no minimum age to participate with the help of an adult making this a great volunteer opportunity to young kids.

All volunteers who plan to attend must be registered. This includes youth. Click here to sign up.

DIY Volunteering: Book Drive and Bookmarks
MONDAY, JANUARY 19, 2015
10:00 AM-12:00 PM
Children’s Museum of Richmond
Click here to register.

We’ve partnered up with HandsOn and will post the DIY for the month here on Richmondmom, but you want to get out and about you can find more volunteering opportunities for you or the whole family on their website.

November DIY:

Welcome Home Soldier

Richmond Fisher House, Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Medial Center

The Richmond Fisher House opened on the campus of the Hunter Holmes McGuire VA Hospital on July 21, 2008 and provides no-cost lodging to the families of veterans receiving treatment at the McGuire VA hospital. Having family members nearby provides significant benefits and advantages to patient treatment, rehabilitation and recovery. By offering cost-free living quarters for patient families, the Fisher House provides an immeasurable benefit to patient care, in addition to the care and well-being of our veterans’ family members.

In honor of Veteran’s Day, DIY Volunteers will be creating Welcome Home decorations for the families staying at Fisher House, to welcome home their family member with style, dignity and gratitude.

Supply List*:

Burlap/canvas/felt fabric or cardstock paper

Pinking shears/ Scissors

Red, white and blue paint

Paint brushes, foam brushes

Twine

Letter and star stencils

Craft glue

Gallon-sized Ziploc bag

*DIY Volunteers are responsible for purchasing any of the materials needed for DIY volunteer opportunities.

How To:
1. Express Interest in the project to HandsOn. HandsOn will send you instructions and schedule a time for your delivery.
2. Every person who plans to volunteer (including youth) must express interest. You can create a volunteer team to sign up your group or family members. Read about how to create and manage teams.
3. Plan the time and place to DIY! Invite guests (optional).
4. Once you’ve expressed interest, complete instructions will be sent to you. We ask that you donate a minimum of 1 complete banner. There is no maximum. Expect the total project to be done in about 3 hours depending on the number of banners made and the number of people you have volunteering with you.

Confirmed participants will receive 3 service hours for submitting a finished project prior to 4pm, Monday, December 15.

Express interest here.

Here’s how it works:

1. Check out the cause and supply list below.  If it looks like something you’d like to do, let them know here and the lovely folks at HandsOn will send you instructions on how to do the month’s DIY project.

2. Volunteer at home with your kids, during nap time, or get a group together and volunteer as a team (learn how to create and manage a team right here).

3. Drop it off and feel good about making Richmond a little brighter while doing something really fun.

How you can get involved this month:
Create at least 4 Lanterns for InLight Richmond

Purpose:
1708 Gallery is a non-profit arts organization founded by artists in 1978. Our mission is to present exceptional new art. 1708 Gallery is committed to providing opportunities for artistic innovation for emerging and established artists and to expanding the understanding and appreciation of new art for the public.

1708’s annual signature event, InLight Richmond, is a public exhibition of light-based art and performances. Each year, InLight Richmond invites artists to respond to a particular neighborhood in our diverse city, attracting audiences to unique areas of Richmond. InLight 2014 will kick off with the Community Lantern Parade and will feature performances, sculpture, large-format projections, and interactive projects that will illuminate pathways, walls, sidewalks, green spaces, trees, benches, building facades, and more, in and around the park. DIY Volunteers will ensure that this event is light-filled and magical by crafting lanterns that will be used in the Community Lantern Parade.

Supply List:
• 4 clean two-liter plastic soda bottle
• a utility knife
• scissors
• colored tissue paper
• school glue/Mod Podge
• paint brush
• hole punch
• string
• 4 battery votive or LED candles
• tape

(volunteers are responsible for purchasing supplies)

Sign up here

We can’t wait to see your creations on parade at InLight Richmond!

Thanks To HandsOn Greater Richmond, we’re bringing you a new activity each month that you can do any time, any place and is great for getting little kids involved in their community.

Here’s how it works:

1. Check out the cause and supply list below.  If it looks like something you’d like to do, let them know here and the lovely folks at HandsOn will send you instructions on how to do that month’s DIY project.

2. Volunteer at home with your kids, during naptime, or get a group together and volunteer as a team (learn how to create and manage a team right here).

3. Drop it off and feel good about making Richmond a little brighter while doing something really fun.

This Month’s DIY:
Birthday Cards of Cheer For SupportOne

SupportOne provides residential and community-based support services for adults with intellectual disabilities. HandsOn Greater Richmond is partnering with SupportOne for August’s DIY project to help make client’s birthdays a little brighter. Volunteers will be crafting colorful and cheerful birthday cards that will be distributed throughout the year on resident’s birthdays, making them feel even more loved and cared for on their special day.

Supply List*:
• Cardstock, scrapbook paper, construction paper
• Scissors
• Decorative tape, markers, stamps, glitter, stickers, paint, felt, stickers, string, sequins, etc.
• Adhesives: Glue, mod podge

*DIY Volunteers are responsible for purchasing any of the materials needed for DIY volunteer opportunities.

We’ve partnered up with HandsOn and will post the DIY for the month here on Richmondmom.com, but you want to get out and about, you can find more volunteering opportunities for you or the whole family on their website.

Confirmed participants will receive 3 hours for submitting materials prior to 4pm, Monday, September 15, 2014.

Here’s how it works:

1. Check out the cause and supply list below.  If it looks like something you’d like to do, let them know here and the lovely folks at HandsOn will send you instructions on how to do that month’s DIY project.

2. Volunteer at home with your kids, during nap time, or get a group together and volunteer as a team (learn how to create and manage a team right here).

3. Drop it off and feel good about making Richmond a little brighter while doing something really fun.

This month’s DIY: Decorate Bags and Boxes for Hilliard House

Mission:
Create at least 5 bags and 2 boxes. There is no maximum. Expect the total project to be done in about 3 hours depending on the number of items made and the number of people you have volunteering with you.

Supply List*:
• 5 paper grocery bags
• 2 empty copy paper, banker, or like-sized boxes (16.5 x 8.5 x 12.5 inches)
• Scissors
• Wallpaper, contact paper, wrapping paper, construction paper, scrapbook paper, decorative tape, markers, stamps, glitter, stickers, paint, etc.
• Adhesives- Glue, mod podge

*DIY Volunteers are responsible for purchasing any of the materials needed for DIY volunteer opportunities.

About the Hilliard House:

Hilliard House assists homeless women and their children to build their capacity to live productively within the community. Hilliard House not only provides immediate, on-site shelter and services, but also works to places families into permanent housing in the community as quickly as possible, thus shortening stays in shelter or, in many cases, eliminating shelter stays altogether. Research shows that this “rapid rehousing” approach is a more effective way to address homelessness and based on the principle that when people are in stable housing, other parts of their lives also stabilize. Most clients are provided basic supplies and goods to help them transition into their new lives. DIY volunteers will be decorating bags and boxes to transport these items and provide some much needed cheer and encouragement.

Here’s how it works:

1. Check out the cause and supply list below.  If it looks like something you’d like to do, let them know here and the lovely folks at HandsOn will send you instructions on how to do that month’s DIY project.

2. Volunteer at home with your kids, during naptime, or get a group together and volunteer as a team (learn how to create and manage a team right here).

3. Drop it off and feel good about making Richmond a little brighter while doing something really fun.

This month’s DIY:

Summer Camp Treats for Peter Paul Development Center

Create a minimum of 5 decorated snack bags, 5 decorated bookmarks and 1 box of snacks. There is no maximum. Expect the total project to be done about 3 hours.

Purpose:
Peter Paul Development Center is an outreach and community center serving Church Hill and neighboring communities in Richmond’s East End. Its mission is to build a community of learners by engaging and challenging children, families and seniors through programs that enhance academic achievement, provide cultural enrichment, and promote self-esteem and lifelong self-sufficiency. At PPDC’s Summer Institute take-home snacks are provided to every child when they leave every day. Volunteers will craft fun and creative snack bags and bookmarks for the youth. DIY Volunteers are also asked to provide granola bar-type snacks with inspirational or educational messages on them.

We’ve partnered up with HandsOn and will post the DIY for the month here on Richmondmom.com, but you want to get out and about, you can find more volunteering opportunities for you or the whole family on their website.

Now go out there and make some happy campers!
Happy Volunteering!

Which is why I really love how HandsOn Greater Richmond is providing volunteer opportunities for both me and my kids that fit perfectly into my chaotic life.

Each month HandsOn has a DIY project you can do any time, any place (or you can even plan on doing it one day, but then really do it a couple days later).  Find out more about HandsOn Greater Richmond’s DIY Volunteering initiative here.

We’ve partnered up with HandsOn and will post the DIY for the month here on Richmondmom.com, but you want to get out and about you can find more volunteering opportunities for you or the whole family on their website.

The May DIY is for the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

Check out the cause and supply list below.  Once you express interest in participating, you’ll be given instructions on how to do that month’s DIY project.

This month’s DIY is in honor of National Mental Health Awareness Month and volunteers will be making “thank you” and “thinking of you” cards and stress balls for the families and caregivers of those living with mental illness. (Read more about NAMI here)

 

Supply List*:
• Balloons
• Rice
• Plastic sandwich bags
• Scissors
• Construction paper, scrapbook paper
• Markers, stamps, glitter, stickers, paint, etc.
• Glue

*DIY Volunteers are responsible for purchasing any of the materials needed for DIY volunteer opportunities.

How To:
1. Express Interest here in the project to HandsOn. We’ll send you all the instructions needed to complete the project.
2. Every person who plans to volunteer (including youth) must express interest. You can create a volunteer team to sign up your group or family members. Read about how to create and manage teams.
3. Once you’ve expressed interest, complete instructions will be sent to you. We ask that you create at least 5 stress balls, 5 “thank you” cards and 5 “thinking of you” cards. There is no maximum. Expect the total project to be done in about 3 hours depending on the number of items made and the number of people you have volunteering with you.

Confirmed participants will receive 3 hours for submitting materials prior to 4pm, Friday, June 13, 2014.

How do you teach your children to give back to the community?