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We made our Easter Celebration drop today and we got to say hello to the girls today. They saw us wheel in all these goodies and were so excited and grateful. Thank you to our workshop leader, Irene Menchaca for putting all this together and to everyone who helped donate goodies. All the girls will each get an Easter Basket with gifts. All boys n girls will also get a bag of candy, chips, a dozen cascarones and also get to enjoy an Easter Egg Hunt next weekend (600 candy filled eggs).
thank you HEB for helping us make this possible for all to enjoy and celebrate Easter, and the Resurrection of our Lord. #HEBHelpingHere
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. Special thanks to our event leader today, Dannielle Mack, for supplying these kids with your love and the supplies!CD/DVD Mosiac Tray
Materials
CDs/DVDs
Trays
Spray Paint (if you want to paint tray first)
Clear Casting Resin (found at craft stores)
Rubber Gloves
Scissors
Mod Podge
Procedure
Spray paint tray if needed
Cut CDs/DVDs in small pieces with scissors
(you may want to have these precut for time sake)
The amount of CDs/DVDs needed depends on project size.
For larger projects you may need up to 10 discs.
There are 2 layers to discs. Do not worry if they come apart. They will both be iridescent with different levels of transparency.
Cover bottom of tray in modpodge.
Spread out with paint brush.
Place disk pieces in bottom.
Allow modpodge to dry and then pour resin over tiles.
Let it dry and you are finished!
Materials
Towels
Spray Tie-Dye Kit
Masking Tape
Measuring Cup
Warm Water
Rubber Gloves
Procedure
Lay your towel out on a flat surface, smoothing it out. Using the tape and moving slowly, spell out your child’s name across the towel.
Next, on a covered surface or grass, put on your gloves and begin mixing up the tie-dye with the warm water. What colors are made from the primary colors? Working from the color wheel, which colors will look best near each other on the towel?
With those gloves on, let the spraying begin!
It’s perfectly fine to get spray on the tape.
Once the towel is fairly dry, flip it over to be sure to spray the backside! Flip back over and allow to dry completely. Wash the towels separately twice alone in the wash.
Voilà! Monogrammed beach towels!
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and sadly do not get enough due to budget constraints! Can you imagine? Those little things we take for granted … fresh fruit and hygiene products!
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Such a beautiful day, planting and making these sweet gifts for our moms! Thank you to our workshop leader, Morgan Wood and our volunteers that helped in making it a great day!
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Easter is a time to welcome joy, hope and LIFE! 
Our April workshop led by Lupita was filled with nothing but love as we gathered to make Easter Egg Kits for the kids at The Rio Grande Children’s Home. We can’t wait to share the Easter spirit this season! Wishing all a blessed Holy Week ahead
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were able to do their nails as if they were at a salon from start to finish afterwards they were treated to a ice cream cookie and chocolate bar~
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We had a fun time today! We had a room full of kids and moms dying Easter eggs and making bunny face crafts.
Thank you for everyone who helped out and to the beautiful women who brought their kids down to have fun with us. #chicktime
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We want to thank our workshop leader, Kristina Juarez for such a FUN project for the girls at Bokenkamp this weekend!They will be making paper mache sun catchers! A huge thank you to H-E-B for providing the drinks, snacks and goodies! #HEBHelpingHere
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Materials
Canvas
Broccoli
Paints
Paint Brushes
Paper to Cover Table
Paper Plate
Procedure
- Paint the whole canvas the light sky blue color with an actual paintbrush. I even paint the sides of the canvas to give the piece a more finished look when it is done and hanging on the wall or sitting on a shelf. Allow a few minutes for the paint to dry before continuing. Put some paper down under the canvas to keep the paint off your table!
- Now the fun Paint With Broccoli begins! Squirt some white paint out on a paper plate. Dip the head of the broccoli into the paint and then onto the top area of the canvas to make clouds. Dab the paint, don’t brush it around. Make the clouds light and airy with rounded edges. Try not to add more and more paint because they get too solid-looking.
- Using some of the brown paint and a paintbrush, paint a trunk to the tree that starts at the bottom edge of the canvas. The trunk will extend about one-third of the way up the canvas and get narrower as it goes up.
4. From the top of the trunk make 4-6 branches that reach out to about an inch from the edges of the canvas. These branches will keep dividing and branching out into smaller and smaller branches.
It may be a good idea to practice this on some newspaper before beginning to paint on the canvas. It usually helps get a better idea of size and shape on the canvas.
5. NOW BACK TO THAT FUN PAINT WITH A BROCCOLI PAINTBRUSH!
Place four blobs of paint on a clean paper plate using the two different tones of pink, the red-violet and the green paint. Place the blobs fairly close together so the head of the broccoli will dip into all four blobs at once. Remember to dab and not to brush the broccoli and paint around.
6. Paint the Buds on the Redbud
With a second piece of fresh broccoli, dip into the four blobs of paint and then dab the paint onto the canvas. It will make a mottled grouping of the four colors. The idea is to get the paint to look like the multi-colored buds of the blooming redbud tree. Again, like with the clouds, the idea isn’t to get a solid mass of color but a lighter more airy look. You should be able to see some of the sky through the buds of the tree you are painting.
This is a four-part, in-depth workshop on the power of positive affirmations.
Each part will be broken down with instructions.
Most of the supplies can be purchased at Dollar Tree.
Opener
Materials
Strips of Paper
Cups
Writing Utensils
Procedure
At the start of the workshop, strips of paper were handed out to the girls to write down all the negative things that hold them down….only they would see the list. The girls were asked to fold the strips of paper and put them in a cup.
Ice Breaker
Materials
Hand-Held Mirror
List of Positive Affirmations
Procedures
Gather the papers and tell the girls to now focus on the reason Chicktime is there… to teach them about positive affirmations and how they can help them to move forward … dream big…and claim who they were called to be. Share personal things that have weighed heavy on your heart and have kept you from reaching your dreams at times. Then explain how positive affirmations changed your heart and attitude. To help the girls practice making positive affirmations, pass a mirror around so the girls can look in the mirror and loudly proclaim affirmations they want to make. Have a list of positive affirmations to assist them if needed.
Positive Affirmations Craft
Materials
Scissors
Magazines
Stickers/Jewels (Dollar Tree has a ton, but Amazon has positive affirmation stickers)
Mod Podge
Sponge Brushes
Canvases
Polaroid Camera
Film
Procedure
Use a Polaroid Camera and have volunteers help take pictures of all the girls .
The craft of the day is to paste that picture in the middle of a canvas and use stickers above the picture to spell out – I AM… Then the girls will create a positive affirmation canvas with the picture as thecenter focus! The conversations between volunteers and girls during this activity can be amazingly FABULOUS and REAL!
Click here for a link to help with the discussion!
Positive Affirmation Snack
A homemade cookie cake with positive affirmations on it was shared with lemonade!
Closing
Then make a symbolic gesture of tearing up the strips of paper with the negative thoughts the girls wrote out to tell the girls those thoughts no longer have a hold on them.
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We FINALLY were able to see our girls at Elks Aidmore again!!!
They were so excited to see us. Lots of hugging and laughing going on.
Today we did a devotional about how God is with us even in the hard times
and how we can be honest with Him about how we are feeling.
Then we had snacks and played St. Patrick’s Day themed games such as
“What’s Your Leprechaun Name” and “Leprechaun Mad Libs”.
We had a lot of fun with the girls; we have missed them so much!!
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on how to self care for one self
to write 
down their thoughts 
drink water 
take a walk and 
exercise
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Our February event was amazing! We had the kiddos paint the trees they seem themself as, since we also are constantly changing, growing, and our roots are grounded. All of the trees came out very differently, showing them that everyone grows differently and that’s ok! We also had three AMAZING volunteers today. Chicktime Akron is forever grateful for our community 
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I can’t think of a better day than Valentine’s Day to show up and show love. Chicktime Fort Worth shared love with the children at ACH Family Services Youth Emergency Shelter with a drop-off workshop including pizza and drinks., decorate your own sugar cookie kits (heart-shaped, of course) and a fun craft activity. Thank you so much to our generous donors for making this possible. We hope to be in- person next mont for a Great Green Get-Together, so stay tuned!!
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LOVE was in the air for the month of February. Chicktime Atlanta truly wanted to make love visible to our girls. We were too excited to share with them the importance of the 5 Love Languages and Self Love.
It takes a team effort to make this happen so I definitely want to thank my volunteers Nikiyah, Cordia, Christine and Karen. Well done ladies!
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Chicktime Tulsa made door hanger/wreaths with Lindsey House for our February workshop.We had to blot out personal information on the beautiful creations, but we know you can see how incredible they turned out.
What a blessing to be serving in person. What a blessing to gather together and be intentional in giving hope and spreading love. We are already planning our March gathering. We hope you will join us! More details coming.
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A picture of Talen and Anthony who made dinner one being for the families.
Rosemary Jackson, Emma Posada and Yolie Leyva donated to the shelter on behalf of Chicktime.
Materials
Astrobrights cardstock
Paper cutter
Stapler
Scissors.
Curtain Rod or Dowel Rod
Here are the specific Astrobrights colors I used to create the ombre effect:
- Outrageous Orchid
- Planetary Purple
- Gravity Grape
- Venus Violet
- Blast-Off Blue
- Celestial Blue
Procedure
Make 1″ by 8″ strips of cardstock. A paper cutter or fringe tool works great for this, but you can also use scissors. You will need 80 strips of each color (about 8 pages of each).
Starting with the first color, make a loop and staple it together. Add another piece of of the same colored cardstock through the loop and staple. Continue until you have 4 loops of the same color and then move onto the next color of cardstock in your ombre design. You have then made your first chain.
Make a second chain using the same steps as above, but this time add one less chain. Repeat this step to create another matching chain. Continue making a set of two chains, with one less loop than the previous chains.
Once you have made 19 chains, hang them from a wood dowel or curtain rod that is long enough to hold the chains. Adjust the paper loops as needed to hide any staples.
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February drop and feeling excited! Can’t wait to see the girls’ finished masks to celebrate Mardi Gras. A huge thank you to our workshop leader, Amanda Martin and H-E-B for the drinks and snacks. #HEBHelpingHere
Materials
- Canvas
- Washable glue OR a hot glue gun and glue sticks
- Spray paint or craft paint in the color of your choice
- Pencil
- Saying – you’ll either hand draw or print
- Transfer paper (optional)
Procedure
Step 1: Think of/find a pattern that inspires you, and draw/trace it on your canvas with a pencil.
Now if you aren’t feeling very creative or you want to make it more exact, there is another option. You can print something from the internet and place the paper down on the canvas with a piece of carbon transfer paper in between. Trace with your pencil and the design will end up on the canvas!
Step 2: Go over your design with glue. Make sure you don’t press the glue down as you apply. If you find that your glue settles flatter than you want, go over your design one more time once it has dried. You could also use dimensional fabric paint for this project.
Step 3: Let the glue dry
Step 4: Spray paint the canvas any color! I liked the clean look of white on white.
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