Shelby CMA Index

Things to do with kids...

*	Make Mud Cloth Online - Interactive - African Voices (Learn more about Mudcloth - AfroDecor Website)
*	Actually Make Mud Cloth - the easy way - Family Education Website
*	Have kids help with Easy Kimono, pulling ribbon through - Pattern
*	Use black film canisters to collect quarters for a specific project
*	Collect quarters for a 1/4 mile
*	Roll bandages - they'll love tearing sheets
*	Play "carry the water on your head" game - fill a cup at one station and walk to another station with a bowl of water on their head
*	Eat African style, outside - put cooked rice in big bowl and sit in circle around in dipping right hand in and putting rice in mouth (Try bowl of peanuts, bowl of tapioca, bowl of cous cous) - Have someone come aorund with bucket of water to wash hands and cloth to dry
	Give older children a cardboard box, scissors and tape and tell them to create a toy that might entertain a younger child (Malians are so inventive making use of things we think are trash and turning them into toys, tools and more)
	We are asking for children's vitamins that have “trace elements” included in their ingredients. It would be helpful if the are square or round, not the ones that are in shapes, because, depending on the size of the child they may be cut in half. Along with that Children's Tylenol and Children's Motrin (Ibuprofen) (syrup and or pills), iron tablets, suppositories, cloth diapers and digital thermometers (that read in Celsius and farenheight)*. Pediatric and Neonatal stethoscopes are also needed, they cost about $100 or more each. Oxygen concentrators are also needed, we have a place near here that sells them at a very good price of $495 each. When babies are born at the hospital, we have supplied the moms with a baby blanket, a pair of booties, a hat, one disposable diaper and either a onesie or kimono or undershirt, we make them up into packs and put them in gallon-sized Ziplock bags. The moms love that their children are getting something and the clothes help the babies from losing body heat too quickly after they are born. So, your kids could bring in any of those items.