workshop report...

Sigh... I have to admit defeat on this one. This was the workshop I referred to earlier in the week with my post about "it doesn't hurt to ask". Apparently, I need to ask more questions.

The workshop was titled Navigating the Underground Railroad... so silly me, I assumed that this would be an educational workshop on the history of the Underground Railroad. Ummm... no... it was a two hour workshop on diversity and accepting others (with a little section on African American inventors). Which is a great message but it was not what I expected from the workshop. The people that ran it put a huge amount of effort into the planning and running of the workshop... it just wasn't what the title said it was... if you know what I mean.

That said... Alex and Clara seemed to enjoy it.

Here they are working on their first project...



a diversity flower... showing all of the different colors that come together to make a flower...

(they were supposed to match their skin tone as closely as they could to color their petals which they passed out to other members of the workshop... as you can tell... they were short on markers so some kids got a little creative with their colors)

Next they made a nap sack to take on their journey and keep all of their papers in....


This really was a cute idea. It was just a flat shopping bag with holes punched around the edges. The kids laced yarn through the holes, starting at the bottom middle. Then they tied the ends back down to the corners to make backpack straps.

After this they traveled to several different rooms in the building to hear different story books or play games. Like I said, my two seemed to enjoy it but for the adults it wasn't what we thought it would be about and some of the information was just plain confusing.

Oh well... live and learn!