African Plant Explorer Community Service Ideas

• Plan an Ethnic Awareness day.
• Design a campaign to promote tolerance and understanding of differences.
• Organize an exchange between rural and urban individuals to promote understanding.
• 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!
• Design a game for young children around the subject matter shared in this kit.
• Create a poison awareness campaign.
• Feature community-minded scientists on a school bulletin board.
• In art class, make cultural drawings and decorations for senior citizens.
• Collect children's science books for the needy.
• Create a play that teaches young children about concepts in the Wonderwise scenarios.
• Write or make a picture book about the Wonderwise concepts to read to younger children.
• Organize a public issues forum focused on Wonderwise
• Become an advocate. Contact your legislators on topics discussed in Wonderwise.
• Help cook and/or serve a meal at a homeless shelter.
• During National Nutrition month in March, organize a nutrition awareness campaign.
• Organize a food scavenger hunt to collect food for the needy.
• Organize a neighborhood group to plant, tend, and harvest a vegetable garden.
• Donate the produce from a vegetable garden to a food bank.
• Sponsor a food drive at your school or parents' workplace.
• Prepare a home-cooked meal for the residents of a nearby homeless shelter.
• Bake a batch of cookies and deliver them to a soup kitchen or homeless shelter.
• Organize a food drive-set up collection bins in stores, banks, movie theaters, and schools.
• Prepare nutritious sack lunches and deliver them to homeless or homebound people.
• Set up an informational display at a local library on the Wonderwise topics.\
• Volunteer to help set up for a community event on the Wonderwise topics.
• Adopt a billboard and use it for a public service announcement.
• Participate in an annual parade.
• Write and produce a play about a current issue related to plant foods.
• Plant a garden or tree where the whole neighborhood can enjoy it.
• Set up a seed or a plant exchange in your neighborhood.
• Create a children's nature garden, labeling plants and trees and scheduling guided tours.