When an art teacher at Providence Country Day School in East Providence, Rhode Island, brought her young daughter to the Drop In & Decorate® event hosted by Rhode Island School of Design in January, she realized that her middle- and high-school students might like to do a bit of community service with cookies, too.
She invited us to participate in World Arts Day -- a day when artists in many disciplines, including painting, video, culinary arts, photography, printmaking, contra dance and more, offer short, hands-on workshops. Students can sign up for the workshops that interest them, and each session creates a project: a mural, dance, meal, Japanese scroll painting, or even a short film.
Board member Lucia Watson and I mixed up some of our special icing colors, and teachers and parents at the school baked cookies. We hosted two sessions, for a total of 25 students, and taught the basic techniques of decorating with Royal icing.
Within minutes, the students were creating amazing cookies, with designs ranging from beautiful flowers to aliens, abstracts, yin-yang, and tic-tac-toe.
And at the end of the day, the 130 decorated cookies were donated, as all Drop In & Decorate cookies are -- this time to the Pawtucket Soup Kitchen.
Drop In & Decorate loves to work with schools on community service events. If you're a teacher, parent or student interested in bringing cookies-for-donation to your school, please let us know.
What a great, creative community service idea for students!!
Posted by: Lucia | May 9, 2010 at 05:34 PM