Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Icing Calaveritas for Dia de los Muertos







Teens and local artist, Roxana Ocana, assisted kids with creating Halloween figurines and icing yummy chocolate skulls, or calaveritas, in celebration of Dia de los Muertos and Halloween. As the dusk turned to evening, we tallied about 40 happy participants!

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Secret Life of Bees Teen Event






To celebrate The Secret Life of Bees, teens enjoyed delicious, freshly homemade baklava baked by an Egyptian aide, then crafted candle holders and beeswax candles, & won promotional prizes provided by Teen Services.

What did you like about the program?
"Using the hot glue gun" - Jonathan
"Those little honey things were good!" - Rick

Comments:
"It was all fun and interesting, and all the food they gave was generous for you guys to give." - Jasmine
"I like the whole activity. I thought it was awesome doing it." - Alondra
"Very interesting programs" - Juan
"Cool" - Breanna

Suggestions:
"I think you should make puppets next time for little kids. OK?" - Jose
"I think you should put some Play-Doh to play with. (Any color is the best.) - Bryan