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.

Wax Valentine Hearts made with broken crayons:

Who doesn’t have a ton of broken crayons laying around our house?  This project needs a bit of supervision, especially at the beginning but it turns into fun melted hearts that can be strung or glued onto cards.

• Take your peeled crayons and shave them down with an old cheese grater. (A grown-up job.)
• Put a towel down, place a sheet of wax paper on the towel, place the crayon shavings on the sheet of wax paper and place another sheet on top, top it off with another towel.
•  Iron briefly till all the crayons have melted
  together.
• After the paper is cool cut or have your children cut hearts out.
• String them on some yarn to make a garland or glue them on card stock to make cards.
  

Whale Milk Jug Craft

Don’t want to just throw away your old milk jugs? Save them so your children can make milk jug whales.  After the whales are assembled they can be used in the bathtub or pool.

• old milk jugs with labels removed
• scissors
• glue gun
• googly eyes
• white or blue foam pieces
• a whale book if you are using it as a lesson or for some extra reading time.

Want more kid-friendly crafts?
Make these easy cork sailboats
Find some Valentine ideas kids will love