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.
