Easter Camp at the Library

Reading the Easter Story to the kids

Bailey and I demonstrating the egg race 

Stained Glass Crosses made by the kids

Easter Baskets made by the kids out of paper plates

Today is the first day of our service project week! We woke up early in search of homemade pineapple bread at the nearby fruit stands. We saw pineapple bread one of our first day's on the island and ever since then the stands are always sold out by the time we make it over there! After settling on some homemade banana bread instead, we headed over to the local library to help out with the Easter camp they are having on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday this week. The camp goes from 10-12 and 2-4 each of those days and we are all trading off days to volunteer. We started the morning off by reading the Easter story to the kids. There were about 20 kids ages 7-10 and they were super excited to be there (apparently the camp slots fill up quickly). The next activity we led them in was creating stained glass crosses out of construction paper. This was my first time working with little kids and doing crafty activities with them so it was really neat for me! About halfway through the first two hours, we took a snack break outside next to the beautiful Caribbean and had an egg racing contest.  After the break, we went back inside of the library and worked on creating Easter baskets out of paper plates and ribbons. Another group of us will be going up to the library today for the second two hour slot. As for those of us who went earlier this morning, we have just been relaxing and hanging out at Pedro's for the rest of the day.