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Your Creative Talents

 

Outlets for your creative talents!

Here are suggestions of groups and organizations who would be thrilled to receive your creative endeavors! 

 

 

Quilts, Blankets and Afghans

  • Children’s Hospital Wards – colorful and fun!
  • Chemotherapy Infusion rooms – warm and cozy quilts covering patients as they are infused with their refrigerated chemotherapy
  • Rotaplast International “Wrap a Smile”  a cleft palate surgery child is wrapped  in your colorful donated quilt  http://www.rotaplast.org
  • Snuggles Project for the Humane Society  www.snugglesproject.org
  • Binky Patrol  www.binkypatrol.org
  • Project Linus http://www.projectlinusid.org/ or find your local chapter on this page too

Pillowcases

  • One Million Pillowcase Challenge at http://www.allpeoplequilt.com/millionpillowcases/  distributes donated pillowcases to someone in need. A pillowcase can provide comfort for a cancer patient, hope for a foster child, encouragement for a battered woman, or beauty for a nursing home resident.
  • http://www.conkerrcancer.org/pillowdirections.html    ConKerr Cancer, an organization that provides colorful, cheerful, handmade pillowcases to children battling cancer and other life threatening illnesses at Rady Children’s Hospital, The Ronald McDonald House, other local pediatric wards, and pediatric hospices.

Knitted or Crocheted Baby Items

  • Children’s hospitals
  • Shelters
  • Food banks

Hats - Knitted, Crocheted,or Sewn

  • Children’s Wards in Hospitals – funny, unique and colorful hats!
  • Oncology offices – very very soft hats
  • Orphanages
  • Food banks
  • Local Shelters

Sweaters

  • Bird Rescue Organizations – Sweaters for oil covered penguins

Cooking talents

  • Teach basic cooking to students from schools with cancelled Home Economic classes 
  • Teach young marrieds, single moms to cook without a box at a community center, community classes, or your home.
  • Teach additional life skills (bookkeeping, finances, dressing for business, makeup, job search skills ) at Shelters for Women
  • Cook extra meals for Seniors. They help chop, split the grocery costs and take it home to their refrigerators. 

Sewing Knowledge

  • Teach basic sewing to students with cancelled Home Economic departments 
  • Teach basic sewing to young marrieds, single parents 
  • Volunteer at Shelters for Women to help them with life skills and an give then an emotional boost