This year, we kept up our holiday tradition with the Memphis Street Academy Arts program. Our students once again made a handmade holiday card for every student in the Therapeutic Nursery at the Children's Crisis Treatment Center (CcTC).
Our students viewed a public service announcement about CcTC, and discussed how they could use art to make someone's day brighter. Students played to their individual artistic strengths to make sure they made the best cards possible. Some students use reference from the internet. Others freehand sketched original ideas. Others used intricate cut paper designs for their cards.
Memphis Street Academy students were thrilled to take part in this this Caring School Community project. A few students have seen firsthand the amazing work CcTC does (either for themselves or family members), so they were particularly passionate about this project.
Students not only made enough cards for all the kids in the Therapeutic Nursery, but enough to give to CcTC staff as well. When the cards were dropped off to CcTC, Therapeutic Nursery Director Nicholas Bisaccia explained that the cards would be distributed to children when they receive gifts of books for the holiday.
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| CcTC Therapeutic Nursery Director Nicholas Bisaccia, welcoming the delivery of Memphis Street Academy Art students' 2013 holiday cards |
