Katharine Extra

This weekend a few friends and I went to ‘New York’s Children’s Film Festival.’  The movies at NYCFF are mostly indie movies, which means they are movies, which are made by independent filmmakers. These filmmakers often are from other places than the USA. The one I watched was about a king and a bird, after doing this I got to volunteer with the children who attended this festival. I got to teach them how to create jewelry out of used film and teach them how to express them selves in special new ways they hadn’t thought of before. I thought this was awesome because I got to teach children how to create something beautiful instead of just letting them go around and spray some random wall. I got to teach these kids something, which in some schools is being taken away, art. Most art classes are being taken away from schools, so kids can’t experiment with art! But just by teaching kids how to make jewelry out of film or make a castle out of packing peanuts, I am sure they were grateful!  I was very fulfilled by my completed work because I realized that by doing this I was inspiring other kids to get out in to the world and teach other kids what they are passionate about. And expanding other kids interests and broadening their horizons and ideas about other cultures and feelings and people.