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Community Service Ideas
Here’s one from Pennies of Time:
“Saying Thank You to Fire Fighters, Police Officers, or Teachers: I haven’t found a single time where our baked treats or basket of fruit and breads was turned away by one of our community helpers. The fire fighters always take the time to show the boys around the fire station. In one day, we make or gather the goods. The next day, we take our basket to donate and say thank you.” lots more there.
AND: Here’s just a portion of the 100’s of ideas with University of Nebraska LIncoln
- Conduct a community service project during the Big Help Day in October.
- Plan a Memorial Day program.
- Recognize veterans in your community.
- Participate in National Youth Service Day in April.
- On Thanksgiving, make sure your family knows what you are thankful for.
- Trim a mitten Christmas tree to donate mittens to local schools and homeless shelters.
- Organize a coat drive in which old coats are donated for use by needy people.
- Contact a local tree farm about donating a Christmas tree to a nursing home, homeless shelter or needy family.
- Decorate a Christmas tree at a nursing home, hospital, school or homeless shelter.
- Ring the bell for Salvation Army during the holidays.
- Deliver a May Day basket.
- Offer safety tips for youngsters during Halloween.
- Conduct an Easter Egg Hunt for needy children.
- On St. Patrick’s Day, don’t only wear something green, care for something green!
- Volunteer to return shopping carts during National Supermarkets Month in February.
- Make Spring baskets for seniors’ residential facility, neighbors or homeless shelters.
- On International Picnic Day in May, take your family or friends on a picnic. You supply the food and let Mother Nature supply the ants!
- Make a Halloween Safety Kit for youth.
- Give your Mom a hug and a homemade card for Mother’s Day.
- On Johnny Appleseed Day in March, deliver apples to homeless shelters.
- July is Anti-Boredom Month. Help your friends fight boredom by becoming active community volunteers.
- During July on National Cheer-Up Day, share a smile and cheer someone up.
- Mow the lawn for your Dad on Father’s Day.
- see more HERE
- Print the PDF HERE
Summer To-do Check List
Create with the kids, and let them check off the activities. For older kids, have them rate the activities using your chosen criteria, or even make a report. You could also add some of those once a year chores, and they can help too! via
Other Uses for Coffee Filters
Coffee filters …. Who knew! And you can buy 1,000 at the Dollar Tree for almost nothing even the large ones.
1. Cover bowls or dishes when cooking in the microwave. Coffee filters make excellent covers. 
2. Clean windows, mirrors, and chrome… Coffee filters are lint-free so they’ll leave windows sparkling.
3. Protect China by separating your good dishes with a coffee filter between each dish.
4. Filter broken cork from wine. If you break the cork when opening a wine bottle, filter the wine through a coffee filter.
5. Protect a cast-iron skillet. Place a coffee filter in the skillet to absorb moisture and prevent rust.
6. Apply shoe polish. Ball up a lint-free coffee filter.
7. Recycle frying oil. After frying, strain oil through a sieve lined with a coffee filter.
8. Weigh chopped foods. Place chopped ingredients in a coffee filter on a kitchen scale.
9. Hold tacos. Coffee filters make convenient wrappers for messy foods.
10. Stop the soil from leaking out of a plant pot. Line a plant pot with a coffee filter to prevent the soil from going through the drainage holes.
11.. Prevent a Popsicle from dripping. Poke one or two holes as needed in a coffee filter.
12. Do you think we used expensive strips to wax eyebrows? Use strips of coffee filters..
13. Put a few in a plate and put your fried bacon, French fries, chicken fingers, etc on them. It soaks out all the grease.
14. Keep in the bathroom. They make great “razor nick fixers.”
15. As a sewing backing. Use a filter as an easy-to-tear backing for embroidering or appliqueing soft fabrics.
16. Put baking soda into a coffee filter and insert into shoes or a closet to absorb or prevent odors.
17. Use them to strain soup stock and to tie fresh herbs in to put in soups and stews.
18. Use a coffee filter to prevent spilling when you add fluids to your car.
19. Use them as a spoon rest while cooking and clean up small counter spills.
20. Can use to hold dry ingredients when baking or when cutting a piece of fruit or veggies.. Saves on having extra bowls to wash.
21. Use them to wrap Christmas ornaments for storage.
22. Use them to remove fingernail polish when out of cotton balls.
23. Use them to sprout seeds.. Simply dampen the coffee filter, place seeds inside, fold it and place it into a plastic baggie until they sprout.
24. Use coffee filters as blotting paper for pressed flowers. Place the flowers between two coffee filters and put the coffee filters in phone book..
25. Use as a disposable “snack bowl” for popcorn, chips, etc.
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