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In the three years I've been at recruitment, we've done three different activities...
As a pnm, we made literacy bags (I have no idea what they were actually called). We basically decorated paper bags, made bookmarks and put a bookplate into a book (we decorated the bookplate, too). Personally, I didn't like this activity very much because it involved a lot of drawing and I'm not a good artist!
My sophomore year, we made alphabet blocks. One girl's dad cut wood into cubes for us (much cheaper than buying the cubes pre-cut). Then, we had to sand and prime them. During the party, the pnms painted a block (we penciled in the letters so that we didn't end up with like 100 A blocks and nothing else). Overall, this was an okay activity... messy and a lot of work (after recruitment, I ended up painting all the blocks that weren't finished... it took like 6 hours!).
This past year, we made angels dolls, which has nothing to do with Links to Literacy, but I think it was the best philanthropy project (during the actual parties pnms told us it was the best philanthropy project!). We premade the bodies (a small triangle of felt sewn together like a pillow) and let the pnms glue on the hands, feet (felt), hair (doll hair), heads (wooden bead-things), eyes, halos, wings (ribbon bows, but you could also use felt), etc. They ended up coming out really cute and the organizations we sent them to seemed to really like them (one was for the children of September 11 victims and the other was a childrens' hospital).
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