HOPE (where needed most): Create a “helping hands for hope” wall, adding handprints with Psalms of hope and messages of goodwill for families. Climb the mountain of hope, posting a photo or drawing of a mountain and marking your progress to the top.
FOOD: Add rice or beans to a clear glass jar. Fill a basket with in-season vegetables. Add pictures of food to blank paper plates. Hang cooking utensils, such as wooden spoons or spatulas.
WATER: Add blocks or Legos to build a giant bucket. Add glasses of water to a table. Shape blue pipe cleaners into rain drops and post them.
PEACE: Add to a string of paper dolls or doves to signify people coming together. Piece together a puzzle made by cutting up a drawing or picture of a peaceful scene.Add patches of colorful fabric or paper to create a peace quilt.
JOBS: Make a line of hats that represent different occupations. Print out enlarged pictures of money from different countries and add them to a clothesline.
EDUCATION: Make a pencil tower or use other school supplies. Complete the alphabet by adding letters as you move toward your goal. Fill a board with scientific equations or mathematical formulas.
HIV/AIDS: String ribbons of health across the room. Create a tree of health, adding paper leaves with names written on them such as mother, friend, teacher, brother or nurse.
HEALTH: Add pictures of healthy babies to a collage. “Build” a human body, adding a head, arms, torso, legs, toes, etc.
FRIENDSHIP: Add candles as a symbol of hope and welcome for newcomers. Trace and cut the outline of a person on cardboard and stick on pictures of young adults from around the world.
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