Service Projects

June 29 - Preserve our Urban Green Space - Nature Center at Shaker Lakes  Our Cubs beat the heat by heading into the woods and helping local plants thrive by pulling vinca vines. We learned that vinca aren't "bad" plants, they just aren't very good at sharing space with the other plants in the forest! We… Continue reading June 2019 – Nature Center at Shaker Lakes

Caring Cubs met at Cuyahoga County Public Library on Friday, July 19 at 10 a.m. for a morning of mindfulness, gratitude and support. Our cubs assembled busy bags, making fleece blankets, decorating book marks, and creating Thank You cards! A representative from a Special Wish Foundation spoke with the cubs about the organization in a child-friendly… Continue reading July 19 – A Special Wish/Shoes and Clothes for Kids/Kids’ Book Bank

Caring Cubs continued our annual tradition of collecting school supplies for Shoe and Clothes for Kids.  We collected NEW glue sticks, pencils, and crayons (24 packs).  Shoes and Clothes for Kids’ mission is to improve K-8 school attendance by eliminating lack of appropriate clothing, shoes and school supplies as barriers.  Shoes and Clothes for Kids (SC4K) is the… Continue reading July 28 – Annual School Drive – Ben & Jerry’s – 5 – 8 p.m.

Caring Cubs will join ideastream and other community partners for this fun-filled day that focuses on what it means to be a neighbor. Families with young children are invited to this free, public event that encourages literacy and neighborliness. Caring Cubs will host drop-in volunteer activities that include: - Making bookmarks and literacy gift bags… Continue reading August 9 – Be My Neighbor Day

Theme: Kindness & Caring for The Environment The Emergency Assistance Center (TEAC) + Cleveland Seed Bank (CSB) & Mobile Meals of Summit County (MM) Cubs helped sticker bags for food distribution AND counting/sorting seed.  We filled over 500 seed packets for CSB, bundled over 200 flyers/bags and collected 100 food/hygiene items for TEAC, and decorated… Continue reading September 2019 – The Emergency Assistance Center + Cleveland Seed Bank

We spent the afternoon grooming horses, leading miniature horses through an obstacle course, making Thank You cards, cleaning pastures and making friends.  Our cubs and families made 60 Thank You cards that In Step with Horses can use to thank their supporters. We cleared the large pasture of hanging branches. Our cubs were able to… Continue reading October 19 – In Step with Horses

Our Cubs visited the Danbury Senior Living Center to make some Halloween crafts. We had our own Halloween Costume parade for the residents and presented crafts we made as a "reverse" Trick or Treat. Some residents then joined our Cubs for some apple cider and cookies to end a lovely afternoon! View the photo album.

115 Caring Cubs volunteers participated in our annual service project at Cuyahoga Community College on Saturday, November 2! We were fortunate to be hosted for the 6th consecutive year by the Tri-C Early Childhood Education Program! Volunteers from the education program helped the cubs make 86 guiros (musical instruments made from paper towel rolls) that… Continue reading November 2 – Annual Service Project at Cuyahoga Community College

The Festival of Caring celebrated kindness with a variety of crafts, activities, and games for our Cubs. The service project began with stories and songs about caring followed by a game that taught sharing.  Cubs visited stations to make a variety of projects which will benefit our community. Two sessions were available so we could celebrate with… Continue reading Festival of Caring – December 14

January 2020 Flower Power: Our Caring Cubs brought rays of sunshine to residents of the Weils at an event co-hosted with NCJW. Children and residents painted 24 pots and then planted lavender seeds in each for the residents to keep! We colored, played “Would you Rather” and read a story. Thank you to all of… Continue reading January Service Project- crafts with seniors