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Many leaders and teachers have created brilliant Heifer program adaptations and supplemental activities. Some of the best ideas are featured below. Share your ideas 
"Children Changing the World" Art Show "In Honor of World Hunger Education" Art Show Hold an art contest where local artists and students enter up to three pieces of their art at $5 per entry. Try to get a local gallery owner to donate space for the event and recruit local celebrities as judges. The artwork can also be sold, proceeds going to Heifer. "Untapped Talent for Good" Show Hold a student-faculty talent show. Sell tickets. Advertise the event. When proceeds are tallied, let the students choose the animals they want to purchase. After the School Bell Rings Use Heifer Resource Kits to teach in after-school or summer-care programs. Parents appreciate the emphasis on reading motivation and the intellectual stimulation Heifer teaching resources provide. Alternative Sponsorship If you do not want to have children gather sponsors, ask civic groups or local companies (Rotary club or bookstore) to sponsor an entire class. Birthday Wish to Save the Earth Project Students pledge to ask parents, friends and relatives to make a donation to Heifer, in their honor, instead of buying them a birthday gift. Children's Coffee Hour Hold a poetry/essay reading in the school cafeteria, or at the local café or coffee shop, and invite parents and friends. Serve desserts and coffee. At a prescheduled time, have the children read poems and essays they’ve written related to global issues, hunger, the environment or hope for the future. Café “diners” may contribute to the Heifer Animal Gift fund by putting change in containers placed on tables or by passing a hat. Community Action Auction to Fight Hunger Ask families, friends and community businesses to donate their specialties, including skills, to be auctioned off. Be creative! Teachers can make videos of their classroom over the course of the year and auction these off to parents. Restaurant and theater owners donate dinners and seats to shows. This takes some organizing, but can raise a lot of money to fight hunger and will alert the community and get everyone involved as well. End Hunger Flea Market Children and their families gather old books, used clothes, electronic equipment, tapes or handmade crafts to sell at a community-wide End Hunger Flea Market. Children distribute flyers and posters and run classified ads about the upcoming sale. Donate the proceeds to Heifer to purchase animals for impoverished families around the world. 
Heifer Hunger Banquet Encourage students to plan and sell tickets to a meal featuring locally or regionally grown foods. For the after-dinner program, students tell about Heifer International and explain why they want to raise money. to fight world hunger and save the Earth. Guests are encouraged to donate to the Heifer fund by placing money in milk jugs set out on each table. Reading Programs Librarians and reading specialists use Heifer resource kits in tandem with their language arts tutoring program as an incentive to develop more self-directed and proficient readers. The kits also work well with the Accelerated Reader Program®. Instead of reading books to gain points for personal reward, students are motivated to read books and earn “sponsored” points to feed hungry people around the world Teachers report that children respond enthusiastically to this kind of challenge. This collaboration works particularly well when the school has a corporate partner that has pledged a certain amount for each Accelerated Reader® point earned. Other schools have established mentoring programs, using Heifer resources, in which older students are sponsored for reading to younger students. (One clever school calls it “Read to Meeeee” time.) Each week, the older students select age- and topic-appropriate books and schedule a time to read to the younger kids. Recycling to End Hunger If the local recycling center pays for recyclable materials, encourage students to gather recyclables for cash. Proceeds go to purchase animals through Heifer. Showtime! With the guidance of group leaders, have the children write and produce a play to be presented at the end of their Heifer project. The play can include a full script, roles for everyone in the group, costumes, props and sound effects. In between scenes, have the children enact public service announcements about Heifer International. Videotape the final performances and sell them to families, either at cost or for a small profit to be donated to Heifer. It will be a great reminder of a powerful growth experience for the children. Snack Food Fast Students pledge to give up "junk food" for a week and donate the money they saved to the school's Heifer fund. Get the entire school involved by going to other classrooms, asking for volunteers and explaining where the money will go. Contribution containers are placed in each classroom. Student-Faculty Play-Off Compete for the benefit of others! Choose a sport (volleyball, basketball, etc.) and invite the rest of the school, as well as parents, to watch and cheer. Sell tickets or charge admission at the door. The Great Trivia Challenge Divide your class into two teams. Teachers may guide the selection of several “global education” topics, and select the books from which the questions will come. For a couple of classes, each team scours books to come up with trivia questions that will stump the other team. Then comes the exciting face-off. The team that correctly answers the most trivia questions posed by the other team wins! Invite parents and charge “admission.” Proceeds are added to the Heifer fund. Book Bucks for Heifer Instead of awarding prizes for summer book list reading, award points or “book bucks” that readers can use toward purchasing Heifer Animals. Local sponsors and individual donors can match real dollars to the “book bucks.” |
