computers and service club

Yesterday in service club we finished up our talk on hunger, and then we started thinking of what kinds of ways we have helped people in service club. Then we talked about how we might draw our favorite way to help people, so we could make t-shirts with iron-on transfer paper!

Some of the kids just drew their pictures on paper, but most of them wanted to use pictures from the computer. What I did was scan their picture into the computer, and then set them up on Publisher. They learned how to insert clip-art and text, and to find their picture that was scanned in the computer. They saved their files in My Documents, and they worked on their typing!

One of the kids made a shirt with a picture of George Washington and a talk bubble (we learned to use auto shapes) that had a picture that the kid had drawn, showing healthy things to eat and healthy activites. Then on the side it said, "George Washington says be healthy!", because as the kid told me, "I really want a picture of George Washington". And he must have figured out how to search for the picture of George Washington, because he was already in the document when I went to see how he was doing! (then underneath George and the talk bubble there's a picture of a lion. Because lions are cool.)

Another kid had created a cool border and had a picture of a truck in the middle, with text that said "Deliver food" on the top and "All around the world" on the bottom.

Many of the kids had no-smoking messages on their shirts too.

I am SO glad that we had Aaron and Christina, our amazing service club volunteers, because I couldn't have done this without them- they were awesome! And so were the kids! I think everyone learned a lot that day. And the shirts turned out so well- the kids were so excited that something they made is on a t-shirt that they can wear!