The Front Porch Gallery
Photos of years of fun, education, and community building.
Photos of years of fun, education, and community building.
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 Valentine's Day cards
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
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
Making a Pig Puppet for Reader's Theater
Monarch caterpillar at Front Porch garden. Photo by Shamaya P.
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.
Making a gift envelope for a hand made envelope.
Mother's Day art activities at Wayne Elementary
2017 Masks from Halloween Activities at Wayne Elementary
A Halloween monster using watercolor blow painting at Wayne Elementary.
Another Halloween monster.
Mummy Wrap game at the playlot at the neighborhood Halloween
party.
Holiday book of choice, second grade.
Holiday book of choice for another class.
Front Porch Kids spent the afternoon with International students
from the University of Michigan Law School and Great Communities Now
cleaning up a lot in the neighborhood.
Home made pinata for the Halloween party at the neighborhood lot.
Poutine: Traditional Canadian food the kids tried after watching the
Buskerfest in Walkerville, WIndsor, Ontario. Not a fry was left on
this plate.
A small group of kids went to the Robot Garage in Grosse Pointe.
They built elaborate structures and experimented with the lego robots.
More built at the robot garage.
Snow Angel made near the porch.
2015 T-shirt making on the Porch
Ice Cream making on the Porch. A peppermint creation.
Painting together on the sidewalk.
Embroidery by a very patient teen on the Porch.
Holiday books of choice donated by the SEVA Team.
Snow wall built by kids on the Porch. A lot of hard work and
engineering.
Clay rings made on the Porch with marble jewels.
Puppet kit from ConnectUs. A child at Wayne Elementary wrote a
story.
Making salt dough clay
University of Missouri helping in Advocacy
Making paper flowers on the Porch
