Empty Bowls Dinner a Success!

Thank you to all who attended and helped with our Empty Bowls project and dinner.  The final event was a huge success, raising over $1750 for the Vermont Foodbank.  The food from around the world was delicious and there was great student work on display.  Students were so eager to take home their bowls and the possibility of winning one of Leslie's beautiful bowls in the raffle was exciting for everyone.

Thank you to Leslie for sharing your passion for pottery with students.  Thank you to Cheryl for planning and preparing such a delicious, creative meal for our event.  Thank you to all teachers who took on a little extra work at a busy time of year to integrate learning into classrooms and make this project a success.  Thank you to all students and families for your support and participation. Thank you to Sugarbush for hosting our event.  Thank you to the Vermont Principal's Association for a grant that made this event possible.

Check out photos from this great event:

Empty Bowls Dinner

Dont Forget....

Empty Bowls with Leslie Montalto

How to make a Slab Bowl:

Roll out a slab of clay

Add texture

Lots of texture! 

Lay over a bowl mold

Trim and smooth edges

Empty Bowls Project is Underway!

Monday was our first day with our guest artist Leslie Montalto!  She spent the day with art classes making textured slab bowls and demonstrating the potter's wheel. What a success!

The bowls will be used at our Empty Bowls dinner on Thursday, May 10 at Sugarbush's Gatehouse Lodge.  Students will help make food from countries around the world that experience a high rate of undernutrition.

Empty Bowls Project at Fayston School

Empty Bowls is an international grassroots effort created to help fight hunger and spread awareness about food insecurity.  Although each group’s Empty Bowls project looks a bit different, the basic premise is simple.  Participants work with potters to create handcrafted ceramic bowls.  The community is invited to a simple meal and in exchange for a cash donation, guests may keep a ceramic bowl as a reminder of the many empty bowls in the world.  Funds raised from the event are donated to an organization that works to alleviate hunger. 

Click here to learn more about Empty Bowls.

Fayston Elementary School has received a grant from the Vermont Principals Association to implement an Empty Bowls Service Learning project in the early part of 2012.  Fayston students will work with local potter Leslie Montalto to create ceramic bowls with handbuilding and on the potter’s wheel.  Additionally, they will learn about many aspects of food insecurity and hunger prevention efforts in their community and beyond.  Over the course of the project, students will work to create products that demonstrate their knowledge, specifically drawing upon the many technology resources that are available and incorporating learning in many disciplines.  

We will host an Empty Bowls dinner at Sugarbush Resort on Thursday, May 10 from 5:30-7:30.  This event will showcase student work and learning during this project and feature an exciting meal of food from various countries that experience high percentages of food insecurity.   

We are still looking for parent volunteers to help with the bowls and also to help with the final event.  Please contact Nora or your child's classroom teacher if you are able to help!  

Empty Bowls Service Learning Project

Empty Bowls at Fayston School

Empty Bowls is an international grassroots effort created to help fight hunger and spread awareness about food insecurity.  Although each group’s Empty Bowls project looks a bit different, the basic premise is simple.  Participants work with potters to create handcrafted ceramic bowls.  The community is invited to a simple meal and in exchange for a cash donation, guests may keep a ceramic bowl as a reminder of the many empty bowls in the world.  Funds raised from the event are donated to an organization that works to alleviate hunger. 

Fayston Elementary School has received a grant from the Vermont Principals Association to implement an Empty Bowls Service Learning project in the early part of 2012.  Fayston students will work with local potter Leslie Montalto to create ceramic bowls with handbuilding and on the potter’s wheel.  Additionally, they will learn about many aspects of food insecurity and hunger prevention efforts in their community and beyond.  Over the course of the project, students will work to create products that demonstrate their knowledge, specifically drawing upon the many technology resources that are available and incorporating learning in many disciplines. 

In order for this school-wide project to truly succeed, support from parents and our surrounding community is essential.  If you are interested in being a coordinator for the Empty Bowls project for your child’s classroom, please contact your child’s teacher or Nora McDonough at Nora@madriver.com.  As a classroom coordinator, you may help put together a learning activity, join the planning committee for meetings, participate with the bowl making process, or help organize donations for the final event.  This is an exciting opportunity for the Fayston School and your support and involvement is greatly appreciated! 

For more information about the Empty Bowls project, visit the Empty Bowls page on the Fayston School web site http://faystonelementary.org/empty-bowls-project or contact Nora McDonough at Nora@madriver.com.