2022

This year was spent giving out free Family Activity Kits, Good Food boxes from Focus Hope, and masks.

Jump Ropes
Beautiful and well made from Jump-Ropes that "enriches the lives of people with disabilities". Well used and loved by the kids.

Plants for the terrarium kits: Selaginella which was around at the time of the dinosaurs

Back to School book bags and supplies

Boxes of Fun! These are just some of the boxes and bags of kits for the families. This is the Halloween set.

Kite Kit

Weaving Kit
With links to videos on how Kente cloth is woven in Africa, how they weave at the Chanel atelier, how-to video and an idea video.

Treasure boxes by Jordyn, Josiah and Michael

Treasure Box Kit - recycling

Turtles by Jordan, Josiah, and Michael

Turtle kit with craft, book Tally Tuttle Turns into a Turtle, links to videos about real turtles and Michigan turtles turtle

Tempera Paint

Clay and Pinata Kit
Pinata Kit included prizes. Clay Kit included a book on dinosaurs, a skeleton dinosaur to make a fossil, how to make a cartouche and list of hieroglyphs, how to make people, glowing eye decorations, and alphabet beads.

Mask Making Kit with link to video showing masks around the world

All Are Neighbors from FirstBook

Shark Kit with National Geographic shark book and links to videos about real sharks

Craft Stick Building Kit

Water Race Kit with links to a video about adhesion and cohesion

Magic Tricks Kit and Magic Wand kit

Scary Books: The Dark Thirty and Mister Shivers

Spider Hat Kit with links to videos about real spiders

Art Supplies

Crown Kit

Friendship Bracelet Kit

Pollinator Survival Kit from
ConnectUs

Light Up LifeSavers Kit with explanation of why they light up when they crack

Play Kit includes marbles and instructions, Great Games book, sidewalk chalk, The World Belonged to Us from FirstBook, and a Rhino playground ball

Treasure Bag Kit

Seed Race Kit with chart to record data and link to video about growing seeds

Maraca Kit

Fast Car Kit that uses LifeSavers and it really rolls. Links to a video on simple machines.

Glow in the Dark Bracelet Kit and explanation why the pigment in the beads glows

Caterpillar and Butterfly Kit with National Geographic butterfly book and video links about real butterflies

Halloween Trading Treasure Hunt Kit with prizes

Teeny Tiny Ghost and the Monster Kit. Craft Kit to make a ghost that flies up a string and a monster who opens its mouth when the paper is unfolded

Recycled Paper Beads Kit

Bat Kit from Nature Watch with links to video about real bats and to a read aloud story about bats.

Washable crayon t-shirt
by Jeffrey

Washable crayon t-shirts
by Je'Bria

Washable Crayon T-Shirt Kit

Washable crayon t-shirts by Jordyn, Josiah and Michael

Global Water Quality Kit filtering water by Jeffrey and Mikey water kit

Global Water Quality Kit

Tie Dye shirt by Sharkia

Tie Dye Shirt by Keniya

Tie Dye Shirt by Kahmed

Tie Dye by Gabriella

Tie Dye Kit

Tiny House Design Kit with links to videos Iggy Peck Architect read aloud, room design and house design

Ancient Egyptian Game of Senet Kit with links to how-to with history, and Egyptian history

Isaac Newton's Color Disk Kit

Nine Men's Morris Game Kit (Three in a Row)

Spooky Light Up Castle Kit

Puppet Kit from ConnectUs

Finished puppets by Jordyn, Josiah, and Michael

Paper Airplane Kit with links to understand the forces of flight

PomPom Kit

Bubble Kit with 3 levels of activities and links to videos explaining the colors and properties of bubbles

Two levels of cookbooks

Fairy Tale Play pop up book, DIY characters, ans a DIY pop up card kit

Bending Man Kit from
ConnectUs

Tempera Kit and links to techniques and color mixing videos

Family Tree kit with links for parents to do a more extensive family tree. Also the books Glory and Born on the Water.

Friendship Bracelet Kit from ConnectUs

A Light up Gyro Wheel and explanation of circuits and potential/kinetic energy

Kazoo Kit with explanation of sound waves

Thaumatrope Spinner Kit with explanation of persistence of vision

Color Changing Bracelet Kit and links to videos explaining why it changes color

Old Woman Who Swallowed A Fly Kit. Includes book, paper bag puppet kit that can swallow, and extra animal puppet.

Bracelet Kit completed by Keniya

Tempera Paintings by Sharika and Gabriella

Terrarium Kit with links to videos on water cycle, how-to, and how-to get more for free from your backyard.

Oobleck Kit with how to video and explanation of non-newtonian liquids, crown to be the king.

Mermaid Kit with book The Mermaid or Mermaid A Tale of Two Sisters

Drawing Kit for older kids who are serious about drawing.

Squirrel Mixed Media Kit, with video link to real squirrel video and squirrel story This is a Taco

Art Supplies

3D Drawing Kit with video link to how to and why 3D works

Shark Kit. Fossil shark tooth necklace, Science Comics Shark book from FirstBooks, links to videos about real sharks and about identifying shark teeth fossils.

Napkin Doll Fashion Kit

Magnifying Glass Kit with specimens

Real life size Mummy Kit with links to videos about mummies and a pop up mummy book

Learning Games and Workbooks

Locking Journal Kit and Journal Prompts

Popsicle Kit with molds and recipes for many frozen treats, including healthy recipes.

Seahorse Kit with Mister Seahorse book, seahorse craft kits and links to the read aloud and a videos about real seahorses

Bucket Drum Kit with rudiments on paper and links to basic bucket drumming, advanced and the rudiments played.

Galaxy Kit celebrating the James Webb telescope. First images from the telescope, make your own galaxy, and link to Neil DeGrasse Tyson explaining the images

Stick weaving kit from
ConnectUs

2018

A Valentine's Day bracelet made by a student at Wayne Elementary

A Valentine's Day bracelet made by a student at Wayne Elementary

Making Valentine's Day cards

Making cards for the All About Animals Shelter to use as thank you notes

University of Missouri Alternative Spring Break students 2018

Missouri students and Wayne Elementary students made watercolor scale models of the solar system.

Spacing out the planets

Measuring

Gluing the planets

Beautifully painted planets

Saturn

Mulberry paint right from the tree

More mulberry painting

Making a Pig Puppet for Reader's Theater

Monarch caterpillar at Front Porch garden. Photo by Shamaya P.

Camp. Two tents. Many bikes and swim towels.

Camp.

Campfire for s'mores at the neighborhood play lot. The kids and teens can now set it up, serve each other and make the fire themselves. Adults supervise only.

A group of kids painted, glittered, installed doors and stocked the give a book/take a book house. The doors were ripped off within a week, replaced and ripped off again.

Advocacy: where kids can ask for the help they need to succeed in school.

After walking a mile to take the DDOT bus, waiting for the Tunnel bus, crossing the border to Canada, swimming for hours at Adventure Bay, the kids take a look back at Detroit and what a fisherman is catching.

A group of kids repainted/glittered the border for the Front Porch garden box.

More border wood for the garden.

A Lego car for the Whistle Stop Hobby Shop Lego contest.

Lego creations for the Whistle Stop Hobby Shop Lego contest.

Lego science for Wayne Elementary with the University of Missouri students.

Lego science for Wayne Elementary with the University of Missouri students. One Lego car design.

A teacher, Ms. Neal, asked that the University of Missouri students work with the 5th graders on body systems. Here they play Skeletons in the Closet.