CRESTVIEW — Antioch Elementary School fifth-graders in Alice Thomas’s class hope to raise $1,000 for the Children in Crisis shelter by selling wooden Christmas stocking decorations.
Shoal River Middle School students in Dale Chavers’ industrial arts class cut out the blank stockings, which Thomas’ students — “my little Picassos," she called them — are painting.
The students plan to sell all 200 ornaments for $5 each.
Order forms went home Monday with each Aviator. The stockings will be personalized for each purchaser and “hung in the hallways with care” over Thanksgiving break, Thomas said, then will go home with the purchaser in time for Christmas.
The CIC Neighborhood in Fort Walton Beach provides emergency shelter for children removed from an unsafe environment on short notice, and offers housing to help with foster home shortage.
Learn more at www.childrenincrisisfl.org or call 864-4242.
This article originally appeared on Crestview News Bulletin: Crestview's Antioch 'Picassos' decorate ornaments to benefit CIC