Kids' Corner: Valentine's Day Colors

February is filled with treats, love and bright colors. In celebration of Valentine’s Day, children at both campuses have been treated to parties, treats and crafts all month long. Recently, a few volunteer groups stopped by Rockerville to make heart-shaped crafts and decorate cookies with the kids.

One of the volunteers was Vice President of Development Kara Flynn. Being a boy mom herself, she decided to sit with a group of young men. She enjoyed helping them with frosting cookies, crafting and listening to their conversation about Valentine’s Day colors. Here is Kara’s story.

Last weekend I helped the volunteer groups that came in to do Valentine’s crafts and treats with the kids. I sat with a group of boys, and after they frosted their heart-shaped cookies and decorated them with LOTS of sprinkles, they turned their attention to decorating Valentine frames and wooden ornaments with stickers and markers. They all wanted to use these gem stickers that came in many colors.

At our table, we had gold and silver gem sticker sheets, but I went around to the other tables and grabbed additional colors. As they were decorating, we talked about Valentine’s Day colors and how typically they are red, pink, white and sometimes purple.

“What color are you going to make your hearts?” I asked the table.

Some children answered “red” but one little boy—Kiddo A—said, “I’m going to use purple because purple is the color for CHS!”

This sparked a conversation amongst the boys about how CHS is a place of love for the children who are in our care.

A different child—Kiddo B—spoke up and said, “Well actually the CHS logo is purple, white and black.”

“Then I’ll use purple and white,” said the Kiddo A. “You can’t use black because then it would be a broken heart.”

I love how observant these kids are! It warms my heart that they connected purple with both Children's Home and Valentine's Day. I was also pleased to learn that you can never have too many sprinkles on your cookie!