HandsOn Day 2010
SAMPLE SERVICE DAY PROJECTS

Below are just a few projects to help spark ideas of how HandsOn volunteers can help your organization.

• Assemble small toiletry kits; disaster kits; new mom kits, etc.
• Make potted tissue flowers to brighten the rooms of patients and families
• Paint a mural
• Help with home repairs for clients
• Sort food and stock shelves
• Assemble furniture
• Create a reading corner
• Staff a pet adoption outing
• Create pillow cases for therapeutic maternity rice pillows
• Create birthday cards for elders
• Design and decorate donation bins
• Clean up a park
• Take a census of park users or farmer’s market attendees
• Staff a festival
• Sort donations
• Paint a blacktop with hopscotch or four square games
• Conduct a book drive or supply inventory
• Assist with a mailing
• Make blankets for children
• Give your building a spring cleaning
• Touch up paint on walls, doors, fence, etc.
• Clean animal shelter stalls and give homeless pups some love
• Mulch and plant flowers or trees
• Create holiday table centerpieces
• Clean a local waterway or road
• Create snacks to hang from trees for area animals
• Decorate reusable canvas tote bags
• Create a table placemat that promotes healthy eating
• Construct and paint homes for area birds, squirrels or bats.
• Create a community garden
• Make care packages for overseas service men and women
• Create flash cards to help ESL elementary students communicate (HandsOn has free templates)
• Design and paint a backdrop for an ampitheatre
• Paint games on a picnic table
• Design Awareness ribbons
• Wrap new books and/or create literacy puzzles for children (HandsOn can access discounted books and puzzle templates)