In many people's mind volunteering they immediately get a mental picture of a soup kitchen. Although this may not sound that fun, it can be very rewarding.
Getting your kids involved in volunteer events can create some great memories and experiences with your kids - and of course it typically only costs you time.
Here are some examples of things we have done and really enjoyed doing. Since we really enjoy the outdoors we have a few things we do to combine being outside with good work.
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| The boys and I helping with a City event. |
Clean Stream - which I have down as Saturday April 2nd this year in the St. Louis area. Check with your City Hall if you have streams and rivers in your community you probably have a clean up. This was a fun morning of collecting garbage around a stream in our community.
We have also worked with a group in our area call GORC, Gateway Off Road Cyclists who do a ton of work to keep the trails nice in our many local parks. http://www.gorctrails.com/ to see a schedule of work days.
We help the city I work in with events as well, setting up for festivals, building habitat homes, Halloween Haunted Hayride fundraiser - talk about fun for the whole family.
To the right you can see a link to the City of O'Fallon, MO volunteer page - there are many opportunities for every family out there. The benefit is time with you kids for a good cause and you are teaching them good citizenship.
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| Will Jr. working on a Habitat for Humanity Home. |
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