Empty Bowls Project

The students at Pleasant Prairie were invited to come to school from 6-8pm on Wednesday, April 13th to participate in an Empty Bowls Project.  The students would be making their bowl out of clay that will be sold at a fundraiser come this October.  The monies raised will go to help the local homeless shelters here in Kenosha.

We thought that this would be a great project for Cooper to participate in.  He would have an opportunity to do something that would benefit others.  The only problem was that on Wednesday nights Mom has school and Dad doesn't have a car.  So we came up with the solution of asking Grandma and Grandpa if they would be interested in taking Cooper to the event.

Here Grandpa is helping Cooper roll out the clay...

Cooper needs to measure the clay to make sure that he is rolling it out just right...not too small but not too big either...just right! 

After they are done rolling out the clay, Cooper picks up the circle and places it into the paper bowl as the form for the bowls.  He is then able to make his own design on the bowl. 

Here is Cooper's bowl.  Now we need to wait for it to finish drying for Cooper to go in and paint the bowl.  Then in October we will be invited to go to the Empty Bowls Fundraiser.