Have you wondered how to keep up the good works while sitting lakeside? As it turns out, DGT’s Kitchen Table projects are extremely portable!

Designing oven mitts for Meals-on-Wheels was the perfect Kitchen Table Project for our annual week at the cabin. I simply added a package of fabric markers and some inexpensive oven mitts to our packing list. On one particularly quiet morning, I pulled out the crafty stuff and set the girls to work.

This project kept them busy, and it got them talking. While it didn’t inspire the enthusiasm that card-making does, this project did solicit some good questions about Meals-on-Wheels. Who needs their meals delivered? Where do people who need help live? Why do the volunteers need pot holders?

And most importantly, Can we deliver meals?

My answer, of course, is a resounding Yes! We will be checking out the Meals-on-Wheels “School is out: Family time is in” initiative next week, when we deliver a newly tricked out potholders full of hand prints, drawings of happy feasts, and the inspiring words of a five-year-old: “smile” and “have a happy day.”

I’ll keep you posted on our first venture into out-of-the-house family volunteering!

Have you considered bringing a DGT Kitchen Table project along on your summer vacation?

Tags: Craft, Improving Lives

About Sarah

Sarah Aadland is striving to make family volunteering a meaningful habit for her family of five. Join the conversation as she ponders what they may (or may not have) learned and looks for helpful information about raising compassionate kids.Though she plans to one day put her Masters in Public Policy back to work for social justice, she sees family volunteering as a way to build a stronger community, a better world, and a more connected family. In addition to her children, Sarah tends a large garden, a small flock of chickens, and a habit of mindfulness amid the necessary rituals of parenting.

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