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Thursday, July 22, 2010

"Star Service Stickers"

To those who have come to my blog looking for the "Star Service Stickers" idea, I apologize for the wait. That couple days turned into a week I am sorry. Anyway, it's here now...
Star Service Stickers,
This was so much fun to do at Snow College here in Utah (but it can be adapted for high school, middle school, and maybe even elementary school). There was far more success than I had expected!
We went to our local Walmart and bought a few packages of the star stickers (they were the most affordable at the time. :) ) We cut them into strips with 5 to10 stickers on each strip.  Everyone in our service group took a "starter strip", as well as one strip per star on the strip, i.e. if there were 8 stars on a strip, they took 8 extra strips (having 9 total strips).  For every star we gave away, we gave away one strip of stars also.
The rules for giving away a star:
1. Find a friend, a stranger, someone who looks like they need a pick-me-up, etc.
2. Stick the star to that person and tell them something nice: Thank you for being such a great friend, you are wonderful, you are so smart, I like your shoes, etc.
3. Give the person you just gave a star to a strip, and have them follow rules 1 and 2 (above).
4. Do this until all of your stars and strips are gone, then sit back and watch!
As I was walking from class to class, I saw people who I had never met with stars on their hands, clothes, face, etc. That evening, I went to one of my night classes.  One of my friends, was sitting there with a huge smile on here face.  I asked her what was going on.  She told me that she had been having a really bad day, then some guy, who noticed that she looked kind of down, came up to her, gave her a star and told her something very sweet. That one act of kindness flipped her horrible day into a very happy one.  She sat there and rubbed that star with a smile on her face the rest of the class.... I don't think she learned a thing that night, good thing it was an institute choir class. :)
Then I got home that night, and one of my roommates came running up to me to tell me about her exciting day (she had not been home, and had no idea what was going on with the stars), she told me she was talking with one of her friends who had a star on his hand.  She told him that she had seen a lot of people with star stickers and she was bummed that she didn't have one.  He told her where he had gotten his from, then he gave his only star to her. (He was just the recipient, he didn't get any strips to hand out himself)  I believe she stuck it in her journal that night with her sweet story. There are countless stories just like these two.
This service project was so simple, but it brought a little bit of joy to those who gave and received.