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"Houses for Change" is an award-winning, innovative arts and crafts project that's both fun and educational. It is sponsoredby Family Promise, a national non-profit organization that mobilizes communities to help homeless and low-income families. Along with materials, the website provides age-appropriate lesson plans, fact sheets and sample letters to send to parents. Using arts supplies and their imagination, students decorate pre-ordered house-shaped boxes to look like a house. Participants take their boxes home and in the following weeks fill them with loose change. On a selected date, students bring their filled boxes back to school for a communal donation to Family Promise or a local homeless organization or both. Raising funds and awareness for homeless families is a wonderful service project for students at all grade levels. Please take a look at this project and consider embracing it, perhaps even forwarding it on to administrators and teachers on your listserves to use in thei...See More


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