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September 6, 2012

Go Orange for Hunger: Super Hero Capes

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Today we have invited all of our friends to a Hunger Hero play date at the park in support of No Kid Hungry’s Go Orange days.  All of the kids are bringing food donations for our local food bank–and turning into Hunger Heroes!  I made bright orange capes for all of our Hunger Heroes to wear out of plastic tablecloths from the Dollar store.

They were super easy to make!

You can get 8 capes out of 1 108 inch table cloth.  I began by unfolding the tablecloth and using the folds to cut the tablecloth in half, and then into fourths, and finally into eighths. You end up with a 27 inch cape.

Then I folded the top corners in to make a cape shape.  Next I used scissors to poke a hole where each shoulder would be and tied a piece of yarn through each of the holes to tie the cape on.

And voila–a Hunger Hero!  I can’t wait to give these out at the play date this afternoon!

I am proud and excited to join Moms Fighting Hunger in supporting No Kid Hungry’s Go Orange for hunger days!  The statistics on childhood hunger in America are shocking.  1 in 5 kids in America are affected by hunger, that’s over 16 million kids.  And we’re not the only country facing this problem.

Moms Fighting Hunger aims to help you find ways to help in your community.  All month long bloggers have teamed up to share the many ways you and your kids can get involved.  Follow us and join in the fun!

Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/MomsFightingHunger

Twitter:  https://twitter.com/MomsFightHunger

Pinterest:  http://pinterest.com/stacyofksw/moms-fighting-hunger/

This is a Moms Fighting Hunger Blog Hop!  So go and check out all the awesome ideas!
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About Megan Sheakoski

Megan is the creator of Coffee Cups and Crayons, a blog full of simple fun and learning. She believes that kids’ activities don’t have to be complicated to be fun and that learning is better with play.

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Comments

  1. Jen Fischer says

    September 6, 2012 at 2:19 pm

    Perfect! I love this. I bought orange table clothes for my booth at the Farmer’s Market today where I’ll be collecting canned goods – now I know what I’ll be doing with it when I’m done with it at the booth!

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    • Megan says

      September 6, 2012 at 2:22 pm

      Yay! I can’t wait to hear how your food collection goes!!!!

      Reply
  2. stacy says

    September 6, 2012 at 10:55 pm

    So very awesome! Can hardly wait to hear all about the play date. Thank you SO MUCH for joining us

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    • Megan says

      September 7, 2012 at 12:33 pm

      Thanks! It was a huge success! Can’t wait to get it all together to share!

      Reply
  3. Carolyn @ Pleasantest Thing says

    September 7, 2012 at 12:08 am

    This is fantastic!!

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    • Megan says

      September 7, 2012 at 12:32 pm

      They loved the capes! I can’t wait to post about the play date–it was a blast!

      Reply
  4. maryanne @ mama smiles says

    September 8, 2012 at 9:11 pm

    This is brilliantly simple – LOVE it!!!

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    • Megan says

      September 9, 2012 at 9:51 am

      It ended up being perfect. So glad Jennifer brought up the super hero angle. I really think the kids “got” what they were doing to help!

      Reply
  5. Kelly at Little Wonders' Days says

    September 9, 2012 at 11:45 am

    This is such a neat project and I love the way you made the cape. We volunteer from time to time at our local food bank and they usually have us putting together backpacks of food for kids. Thanks for sharing at AfterSchool.

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    • Megan says

      September 9, 2012 at 1:44 pm

      That’s fantastic! I love the ideas of backpacks of food for kids! Thanks for stopping by!

      Reply
  6. Kim @ The Educators' Spin On It says

    September 9, 2012 at 2:15 pm

    I’ve unfortunately had to observe this many times in my teaching career in some of the schools I’ve taught in. I’m so glad you shared this adorable idea at Afterschool. Hopefully we can come up with something for our community and share with you soon. Can’t wait to see what you share next week!

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    • Megan says

      September 9, 2012 at 3:11 pm

      Yay! That would be fantastic! It’s shocking to realize how bad the problem of hunger in our schools is, but teaching kids to care for and help each other can really make a difference!

      Reply
  7. What Do We Do All Day? says

    September 9, 2012 at 6:12 pm

    What a great idea: Superheroes: fighting hunger everywhere with orange capes! And I esp. love how easy the cape is to make.

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    • Megan says

      September 10, 2012 at 8:23 pm

      Thanks so much! I think it really helped kids understand the impact they were able to have. They asked so many great questions and had such higher level comments that I was beyond thrilled with how things turned out. 🙂

      Reply
  8. Rebecca says

    September 15, 2012 at 4:44 am

    Oh these are great! We have made magician capes and the girls loved it! I’ve pinned to our board.

    Thanks for linking to the Sunday showcase.

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    • Megan says

      September 17, 2012 at 10:34 pm

      Thank you so much Rebecca!

      Reply

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