Snack Shack for Super Cool Students
NAME | Peyton
GRADE | Kindergarten
LOCATION | Toledo, Ohio
Peyton, a kindergartner from Toledo, Ohio, aims to install a cabinet at her school that’s stocked with snacks and lunch items for students experiencing food insecurity. She has already gotten permission from their school to implement the project, and she has a detailed plan of how to keep the cabinet full and raise awareness in their school community.
Peyton was inspired to take action when she noticed some classmates sitting at snack time or lunchtime without any food to eat. Modeling her idea on Little Free Libraries, and with support from her parents in building the cabinets and purchasing supplies, Peyton plans to spread awareness of the cabinet to students and parents through flyers, being featured in the newsletter, and sending out information to their school community. She is already collecting donations from lunchroom workers and classmates and also plans to collect donations in creative ways to keep the cabinet full.
Snack Shack for Super Cool Students
NAME | Peyton
GRADE | Kindergarten
LOCATION | Toledo, Ohio
Peyton, a kindergartner from Toledo, Ohio, aims to install a cabinet at her school that’s stocked with snacks and lunch items for students experiencing food insecurity. She has already gotten permission from their school to implement the project, and she has a detailed plan of how to keep the cabinet full and raise awareness in their school community.
Peyton was inspired to take action when she noticed some classmates sitting at snack time or lunchtime without any food to eat. Modeling her idea on Little Free Libraries, and with support from her parents in building the cabinets and purchasing supplies, Peyton plans to spread awareness of the cabinet to students and parents through flyers, being featured in the newsletter, and sending out information to their school community. She is already collecting donations from lunchroom workers and classmates and also plans to collect donations in creative ways to keep the cabinet full.
The problem I want to solve is kids not having snacks or lunches at school. I have seen other kids sit in class without snacks and sometimes teachers don't have a snack to share with them so they don't have anything. I have seen kids sit at the lunch table without a lunch because they don't have money to buy food and they don't want to ask a teacher to help and teachers can't help everyone every day.
Everyone needs food to live and it isn't fair that some kids cannot eat every day. Also, they may not have food to eat at their house. So I want to try to make sure they can eat at school so they can have fun and learn instead of going hungry.
I want to install a cabinet where children can go get snacks in the morning or a lunch on the way to the cafeteria for lunch period. I know we have little free libraries in our town and thought we could do the same with food for hungry people at school.
Since we have permission to do this from school already, my next steps are:
1. I plan to ask my dad to help me build a cabinet/pantry to put in the school.
2. I need to get donations of food or money to fill the pantry. I want to ask students that can go bring an extra snack or lunch that doesn't go bad in a cabinet once a week if they are able to. That will help me keep it stocked.
3. I will send out a letter about it being at school and tell parents and kids how to use the box when they need to.
4. I will keep finding donations and people to help me keep it stocked. My mom said I can hold a food drive or contest where the winner gets a prize so kids want to compete and that will help me get a lot of food for stocking my pantry.
My mom/teacher, my dad, my school lunchroom workers, and my classmates are on my team. My mom/teacher just does whatever I need or am not big enough to do, my dad is building my cabinets, my parents also got the money from their jobs to buy the wood and screws and paint for the cabinets, the lunchroom workers are helping me get food for my project, and my classmates are already bringing in some extra snacks and are helping me come up with fundraising ideas.
For people not on my team I will do contest for who can rally the most donations, poster the walls in the hallways, put ads in the school newsletter, have people tell their friends, and have my mom put things about it on her Facebook group. These should help people understand my goal and why they should help me reach it.