What We Did:
We found this brilliant program called Ethiopia Reads. Their mission is "to create a reading culture in Ethiopia by connecting children with books". One of the ideas that the program has listed a way that we can help is to make posters of the front cover of a favorite book to hang in their library. Since we don't have a favorite family book we took a fun trip to our library to explore some of the classics, especially those with simple cover designs. After we read many books the kids choose their favorite and got to work painting the poster board blue. I did all of the rest (see Would We Do It Again below :) We are going to laminate the poster and send it off.
How Long it Took:
4-5 hrs.
How Much it Cost:
$1 for the poster board. We used paint that we already had.
Would We Do It Again?
I'm going to have to say no, at least not with the expectation of it being a much of a family project. After the initial painting fun nobody was into the project except for me. Ruby painted the letters a little bit but was done in 5 minutes.
I had a good time though :)
Next Time:
Wait a few years.
References:
This site has a list of 20 ways that we can help Ethiopia Reads locally.
http://www.ethiopiareads.org/help/community
http://www.ethiopiareads.org/home
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