We had a great holiday season with a fun Christmas party and caroling at Sunrise Village.
YSB's mission: To assist the youth of San Marcos and Hays County communities to become contributing members of society as adults.
Thursday, January 20, 2011
More Christmas fun....
We had a great holiday season with a fun Christmas party and caroling at Sunrise Village.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Children's Xmas Party Dec 2010
So today we threw a Christmas party just for the little ones at the South Side Community Center shelter and awesome tykes in our lives!
First the YSB teens helped the kids decorate their own cookies! Julie, our awesome director, did an fantastic job of creating homemade icing for the event!
The cute munchkins were also treated to hot coco and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
After that, our teens painted the faces and hands of some of the kiddos with Christmas patterns.
Probably the tiny guests' favorite part, though, was getting to pick from a bunch of toys donated to the shelter!
The best holiday gift is getting a bright smile from a little one!
First the YSB teens helped the kids decorate their own cookies! Julie, our awesome director, did an fantastic job of creating homemade icing for the event!
The cute munchkins were also treated to hot coco and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
After that, our teens painted the faces and hands of some of the kiddos with Christmas patterns.
Probably the tiny guests' favorite part, though, was getting to pick from a bunch of toys donated to the shelter!
The best holiday gift is getting a bright smile from a little one!
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Annual Chili Cook-off
A huge thanks to all the volunteers and members of the community who helped make our annual chili cook-off a huge success!Friday, December 3, 2010
Charity Art Project November 2010
So one of our volunteers told us about this lady who runs an organization that mails hand-made gifts from various donors to people in the hospital...
Elmo and the YSB decided to contribute by making tiny books! We are still in the middle of making some, but basically the finished projects will have heart-felt poems in them to make people feel better!
Yup we have made a bunch so far!
Elmo and the YSB decided to contribute by making tiny books! We are still in the middle of making some, but basically the finished projects will have heart-felt poems in them to make people feel better!
Yup we have made a bunch so far!
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Medieval/Renaissance Art Lesson Nov. 18, 2010
Elmo gave us an art lesson today that was a modified version of one she gave as a teacher intern: "The Evolution of Art During Medieval and Renaissance Times."
First, we showed her what we already knew about the time periods by using messenger pigeons (well actually they were balloons.) Our groups brainstormed what we knew and one person wrote that information on our pigeon. Then we *sent* our pigeons over to partners on the other side of the room to relay our messages. Those partners read what we knew aloud. Turns out we knew a lot already!
Then Elmo filled in our knowledge gaps with a quick lecture about the art of those eras...
After that we showed Elmo what we learned by participating in a team answer-game competition. We had to slap in our answers using feather dusters and the the top two teams won glow-stick bracelets!
At the end of the lesson we learned about the jobs of apprentice artists and even did one of their jobs: paint making. We made our own paint using 1 spoonful of water, 1 spoonful of liquid starch, and 2 drops of food coloring. At the bottom of our paintings Elmo asked us to write one thing we found interesting about her lecture.
One of us thought it was funny that because it wasn't acceptable to have female models in the Renaissance time period, a lot of women were portrayed pretty "manly" in art.
One of us thought it was pretty crazy that Medieval people thought that CATS caused the Black Plague!
First, we showed her what we already knew about the time periods by using messenger pigeons (well actually they were balloons.) Our groups brainstormed what we knew and one person wrote that information on our pigeon. Then we *sent* our pigeons over to partners on the other side of the room to relay our messages. Those partners read what we knew aloud. Turns out we knew a lot already!
Then Elmo filled in our knowledge gaps with a quick lecture about the art of those eras...
After that we showed Elmo what we learned by participating in a team answer-game competition. We had to slap in our answers using feather dusters and the the top two teams won glow-stick bracelets!
At the end of the lesson we learned about the jobs of apprentice artists and even did one of their jobs: paint making. We made our own paint using 1 spoonful of water, 1 spoonful of liquid starch, and 2 drops of food coloring. At the bottom of our paintings Elmo asked us to write one thing we found interesting about her lecture.
One of us thought it was funny that because it wasn't acceptable to have female models in the Renaissance time period, a lot of women were portrayed pretty "manly" in art.
One of us thought it was pretty crazy that Medieval people thought that CATS caused the Black Plague!
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