Buried in Books

For our last Summer of Service project (sniff, sniff), we enlisted the help of friends and neighbors (both real and virtual).

In case you can't read it...

We set about the neighborhood armed with these bags to collect books for a new library in a new assisted living and memory care facility.

We also posted on our neighborhood Facebook page and announced it to our church congregation.  We collected all sorts of books - fiction, non-fiction, coffee-table books and lots children's books(since the residents will have visitors, too).  I was pleasantly surprised at the generosity of everyone who donated.  We got new books, big hardback books and even nice leather-bound sets of books.

In the end, we ended up with over 250 books which filled the shelves in the small, neatly decorated library room at the Seasons of Santaquin (which, by the way, I will totally be living at when I am old - it was SO nice!).  I wish I had taken a picture with all of our books, but we had a great time delivering them and filling the shelves. 

 

This was a great project for my kiddos because (1) they know and love books, (2) they could actively participate in all aspects of the project, and (3) because they could see the end results of what we were doing.  (And they made us fresh baked cookies to say thank you!)