On Saturday, March 8th, AYLUS Syosset members volunteered to work at CP Nassau County Group Home located in Bellmore. The volunteers made sure those with Cerebral Palsy residents all had a great time by playing games with them such as connect 4, tree decorating, and Uno; helping them complete various activities such as drawing, making paper creations, and writing a letter to their family members.
Except those, worthwhile to mention is the cultural celebration activity that the volunteers previously designed and prepared for the residents: to make Irish Shortbread Cookies. The volunteers used butter, vanilla extract, flour, sugar, and corn starch to help the residents to: identify the ingredients; mix them to make the dough; use cutouts to shape the dough into a clover shape; place them in the baking pan; and let the clover-shaped dough to be baked in the oven; and finally spread the sugar on the top to finish the baking process. In the end, we found the residents enjoying the cookies by smiling and saying “ taste good”! Group home staff and residents treated the volunteers with cupcakes and drinks they previously prepared for them and welcome them back very soon. All of the residents like the volunteers and managed to create precious experiences and memories.
Reporter: Darren Gao
Participants:
1.Siri Liu (3 hours)
2.Elva Chen (3 hours)
3. Kingston Lu (3 hours)
4. Bryan Wan (3 hours)
5. Darren Gao (3 hours)
6. David Guo (3 hours)
