MONROE - Autumn Anthony didn't know what she was getting into when she had the idea to sew 72 little cloth pouches as a community service project for her Town and Country Kids 4-H Club.
"At first, I was kind of thinking it was going to take an hour," the 9-year-old Monroe girl said.
She soon found out she had grossly underestimated the time it was going to take. She and her mother, Sheri Heimann, spent the better part of Sunday, from breakfast until supper, working on the little bags.
The hard work was for a good cause, though: They will be used to hold flowers to be delivered to homebound people receiving home-delivered meals.
On Monday, Anthony and other Town and Country members used the bags to hold individual marigold plants. Heimann said she contacted Wal-Mart and store manager Ron Fager donated 72 marigolds for the project. The youth put the flowers first in plastic bags, then used the little pouches as a colorful covering.
"We wanted to reach out to the homebound," club president Ana Wisnefske, 18, said.
The club initially wanted to decorate gift bags, but decided against it because of the number of recipients and possible dietary restrictions.
Each flower in its little sack bore a friendly tag reading "A gift to brighten your day." The finished flower pouches will be taken to the Behring Senior Center today for delivery with meals. Other kids decorated lunch bags to hold the flowers.
It was just a simple way to bring a little May sunshine to a homebound person's day.
"It's nice to do," Anthony said.
"At first, I was kind of thinking it was going to take an hour," the 9-year-old Monroe girl said.
She soon found out she had grossly underestimated the time it was going to take. She and her mother, Sheri Heimann, spent the better part of Sunday, from breakfast until supper, working on the little bags.
The hard work was for a good cause, though: They will be used to hold flowers to be delivered to homebound people receiving home-delivered meals.
On Monday, Anthony and other Town and Country members used the bags to hold individual marigold plants. Heimann said she contacted Wal-Mart and store manager Ron Fager donated 72 marigolds for the project. The youth put the flowers first in plastic bags, then used the little pouches as a colorful covering.
"We wanted to reach out to the homebound," club president Ana Wisnefske, 18, said.
The club initially wanted to decorate gift bags, but decided against it because of the number of recipients and possible dietary restrictions.
Each flower in its little sack bore a friendly tag reading "A gift to brighten your day." The finished flower pouches will be taken to the Behring Senior Center today for delivery with meals. Other kids decorated lunch bags to hold the flowers.
It was just a simple way to bring a little May sunshine to a homebound person's day.
"It's nice to do," Anthony said.