Help the Homeless

Raise awareness in your community about families who are homeless. Your mini-poster can encourage people to make a positive difference in the lives of children and adults.

1. Find out about people who are homeless in your community. Talk with local officials or volunteers at services such as soup kitchens. Look up information. Who is most likely to be homeless? Why? Where can families who are homeless go for temporary housing? How do they fix their meals? What barriers do they encounter with medical care and schools?

2. Create a mini-poster that raises awareness about some of the challenges that families who are homeless face in your area. Show how leaders, teachers, and volunteers like you can help. On white paper, outline your ideas with Crayola® Erasable Colored Pencils. You might create borders, a title, words, and drawings. If you change your mind, just erase!

3. Color your poster with Crayola Twistables. With Crayola Markers, add bold accents and headlines. Perhaps someday homelessness will be erased, too, with the commitment you inspire in others.

Adult supervision is required for any arts & crafts project.

Small Parts— WARNING: CHOKING HAZARD—Small parts. Not for children under 3 years.

Slithery Snake

Bookmarks for BookWORMS

Shoebox Shadow-Box Theater

Crafts

crayola supplies

• Erasable Colored Pencils
• Markers
• Twistables®
• Construction Paper

"After a trip to the city, my son asked many questions about homeless people. He drew a picture of what he saw and shared it with his class."
Gail T., parent of 8-year-old.

"We prefer projects that encourage children’s compassion for others. As a result of this one, our group made homework packs with paper, art supplies, and dictionaries for homeless children."
Rosemary Z., religious school volunteer.

There are as many as 3.5 million people who are homeless each year in the United States, many of them children.