Cypress Park Elementary School (Orange County)
Our stake has adopted this school through the Partners in Education program for Orange County Public Schools. As participants in this program our stake members can serve the community by helping the administrators, teachers, and students in a variety of ways.
- Buddy Readers - volunteers to read with the students on a regular basis.
- Classroom Volunteers - volunteers to help teachers with daily administrative tasks.
- Classroom Pen Pals - create a friendly exchange of letters with a student or class.
Daily Bread
First Baptist Church in Kissimmee sponsors the Daily Bread program which feeds homeless individuals and families in Osceola County at the Osceola Christian Ministry Center in Kissimmee. They arrange for local churches to come once or twice a month to provide a lunch time meal for around 125 people.
Our stake is participating in this program for 2014 and will provide one meal a month for the homeless. Each ward or branch will be assigned 2 months of the year to fulfill this obligation.
Please see the following post for your units assigned month or contact Emily Munns for more details.
Osceola Christian Ministry Center
700 Union Street
Kissimmee, FL 34741
Bookmark Buddies - Education Foundation (Osceola County)
Turn a Lifetime of Experience into the Experience of Lifetime!
Help a third grader improve reading and writing skills. Mentor a student once a week for 30 minutes at an Osceola County school. Click here for a list of schools.
Bookmark Buddies is a program of the Education Foundation - Osceola County
For additional information, please contact:
Jamie Domres, Program Administrator
Phone: 407-870-4087 • Email: domresj@osceola.k12.fl.us
List of Possible Service Projects
- Make treats for a local senior home.
- Improve your school grounds
- Develop and maintain a recycling program at school.
- Collect food, warm clothing, toys, or personal care items for the needy. Deliver to shelters. Remember shelters are in need of supplies all year long!
- Hold a Teddy Bear and Friends (Stuffed Animals) Drive. Donate the collected animals to a Homeless Shelter for new arrivals. Also... check with your local police station or fire station. Many are happy to take Teddy and Friends; a teddy bear can be a comfort to children in times of distress.
- Collect unused make-up, perfume and other cosmetics for a center for abused women. Make centerpieces, holiday cards, birthday cards, and notes for assisted living facilities, children hospital wards, or meals on wheels.
- Donate old eyeglasses to an organization or place that recycles them for the needy.
- Collect old stuffed animals and dolls, clean them up, repair and then donate them.
- Collect old clothes and donate them for a dress-up area at a daycare or family shelter.
- Make a holiday basket for someone in need or crisis.
- Write letters to servicemen/women.
- Put together a care-package for service men/women.
- Form a litter patrol on school or park ground
- In December contact a tree farm or nursery about donating a Christmas tree to a needy family, shelter or nursing home.
- Make a book on tape to contribute a local daycare center--or pediatric patients.
- Make bookmarks for your school or hometown library. Make some pretty bookmarks; leave them in a basket on the library counter for other students to take one when they check out books.
- Establish a Pen Pal Project with senior citizens in a nursing home; children in a local hospital, or children in another country.
- Hold a Used Book Sale after school, on an evening or Saturday at the school or local library. Publicize the event to the school and local community. Donate collected funds to a worthy cause.
- A book drive can also be organized to collect new-- and excellent condition used books—for children who do not have access to many books (poverty or disaster areas in the U.S., other countries, a local Head Start or homeless shelter).
- Band-aid Drive .....Kids love fun Band-Aids! Any kind of fun bandage is fine, but Band-Aid, Curad and Nexcare are some of the best. Current favorites are Scooby Doo, Sponge Bob, Dora the Explorer, Spiderman, and Batman. Latex-free Band-Aids are helpful.
- Make Handmade Blankets for Hospitals - various sizes for infants, children and teens - fleece blankets preferred.
- Crayon and Marker Drive.....Kids in the hospital use lots of art supplies! Children use Crayola crayons (small packs of 4 or 8 crayons work best), Crayola markers (bold, thin, washable, Color Wonder), Crayola colored pencils and construction paper. All supplies must be new
- Collect and donate items on animal organizations' wish lists: Example: Paper towels, dried dog food, milk substitute, portable cages, blankets and towels, cleansers, and food bowls.
- Pet Therapy is a great project for brightening the day of nursing home residents who may not get much company. Set up a visit with your local nursing home and simply take your pets along for the residents to enjoy. It offers them some great company and a cuddly, affectionate cat, dog or other friendly animal to pet.
- Inter-generational Idea! Play Cards! Visit a retirement /assisted living home and have senior citizens teach the kids card games! Maybe the children can also teach them a game or two! Ideas: Gin Rummy, Hearts, Double Solitaire, etc. There is a difference in the games that our senior generation has played compared to the youth of today! Our kids can learn marbles, jacks, hopscotch, cat-in-the cradle, etc...Bringing cookies or some other snack that the kids have made, would be an extra treat to share!
- Visit an assisted Living home and play the above card or board games, perform a skit or sing some songs. This can be arranged for an evening or weekend visit.
- Explore history and spend time with an assisted facility resident and interview them about how they grew up.
- Hold a Drive: Toys, Teddy Bears & Stuffed Animals, Dolls, Food, Band-aids, Shoes, Clothing, Coats, Old eyeglasses, Unused or samples of makeup, perfume & other cosmetics, Books
- Make Books on CD
- Clean up the Park
- Help at a local Animal Shelter
- Adopt-a-Grandparent
- Help in a Homeless Shelter
- Exercise for a Cause
- Military Care Packages
- Christmas Boxes
- Put Together Packages for a Children’s Hospital! Suggestions Include:
- Books - activity books, board books, human body books, pop-up books, I Spy/Look-A-Likes/Where's Waldo books, talking books, Spanish books, vinyl books (new or gently used only)
- Small Plush animals (brand new only)
- Bubbles and flavored bubbles
- Lullaby music, sing-a-long music (Raffi, Wee Sing, Pooh Corner, Spanish language, "Transitions" by Placenta Music, Inc.
- Chapstick (variety of flavors)
- Clear plastic shoebox size containers for craft storage and organization
- Colored pencils
- Decks of playing cards – regular
- Gel pen sets
- Gift cards for special event planning (Michael's, Target, Toys R Us, Blockbuster, and grocery stores for food activities)
- Hair care items (brushes, big tooth combs, No More Tangles, pony tail holders, hair clips)
- Koosh balls
- Nail polish (individually wrapped & new) and nail stickers
- Party packs of Play-Doh
- Rattles (plastic only)
- Uno cards
- Word search books
- Mad Lib books
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