0 Self Esteem Builders Do Service For The Community

Letting children express their creativity is one of the best SELF ESTEEM BUILDERS you can let your child do. One activity which has become a great tool for children to express their creativity is through painting. Painting is also considered as a therapy that helps a child improve their mental health, which includes their self esteem and confidence. Parents can encourage there child to paint at home or let him or her join activities that would help them improve their self esteem while learning some skills.

A very common organization which children, especially girls, can join is Girl Scouts. It involves activities which are mostly SELF ESTEEM BUILDERS that can also let the girls do something for their community. Like the Nolan County Girl Scouts, led by Sands and Judy Leighow, along with a local artist Westorn Pyburn, went over town to paint and did a makeover for the the town's so called "Ugly Mushroom". Read along to know more about the activity.

"Some call it the Ugly Mushroom. Others. the Rusty Umbrella."

"Weston Pyburn remembered when the structure - located at the corner of East 23rd and Locust streets - was built in the mid-1970s, when what is now First Financial Bank was put in."

"So it really hasn't been painted or touched since that time," he said."

"Pyburn is a local artist and owner of Java Jax, a coffeehouse and restaurant in town."

"I heard some people were talking about wanting to tear the thing down," he said. "I hate to see anything torn down that's structurally viable."

"Pyburn wasn't the only one who wanted to save it, however. Liz Sands saw it as the perfect vehicle for her Girl Scouts to do something for the community. She approached the bank, because it was on their property, about fixing it up. When Pyburn approached the bank about painting a color wheel on top of it, bank President Kirby Andrews put him in touch with Sands."

"Saturday was the big day. Pyburn, a handful of Scouts, Sands and Judy Leighow, the service unit manager for Nolan County Girl Scouts, gathered at the umbrella. The structure stands about 8 feet off the ground and does indeed resemble a mushroom, umbrella or oversize thumbtack."

"Leighow explained some of the reasons for the project."

"It's important for the town, for the looks of the town," she said. "Girl Scouts are 100 years old this year, so we're trying to do a hundred days of service."

"Nolan County Commissioner Tony Lara, who owns a commercial painting company, already volunteered a crew to sand and coat the umbrella with primer. Earlier in the week, the Scouts watched Pyburn mix the paints that would make up the hues of the color wheel."

"It started off a bit slow. The Scouts took to the project with as much enthusiasm as you could imagine from five 'tween-age girls. Pyburn kept up a steady lecture of color and painting techniques, trying to get the girls to warm up to the subject."

"We had to break some ice, there. But it was some dang thick ice," Pyburn said, laughing."

"But to be fair, that's only natural with girls this age and is part of the reason for the whole exercise in the first place."

"This is a great self-esteem builder," Sands said. "At this age, the preteen level, their self-esteem takes a nose-dive, and they have no belief in themselves, no drive."

"She said this is the time in a girl's life when peer pressure is at its strongest."

"Everything is about wanting to be like other kids, but they don't know how to go about it. And they usually don't go about it in a constructive way," she said."

"Leighow said the challenge is always getting the girls to be involved, but that once the first one does, the rest jump in, too. That experience, she said, can translate into other areas of their lives."

"You saw how it helped them to get up there and get to painting where they wouldn't even move in the beginning," she said. "It gives them the confidence and the courage to try lots of different things."

"Pyburn divided the top of the umbrella into 12 wedges with masking tape."

"Each girl took a turn on the ladder painting in a color while he coached from his perch atop the umbrella. Most of the girls ended up painting twice and said they enjoyed themselves."

"It was fun," Shania Boyd said. "I was nervous at the beginning because I'm afraid of heights."

"The girls will return to the umbrella Saturday to add a second coat. Pyburn said they also have a plan for what to do on the underside of the roof, suggesting they may put something like constellations or the phases of the moon."

"We're hoping to turn it into a compass out here," he said. "You can find out where you're at in the world and how far it is to different places - like an arrow that shows you the exact distance to the center of Dallas."

"Although that's still in the future, Pyburn said it was good for the community to have something that was thought of as an eyesore to become useful and even attractive again."

"We've done a lot of things today. It took them a while to warm up a little bit, but by the time they left they were smiling," he said. "I know they learned something because I saw them get better at painting."

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Having to enjoy the wonders of painting while doing something for the community is a rewarding and fulfilling experience to children. Encourage your child in joining organizations with a cause, they will grow up to loving the feeling of getting back to the community. Let them discover as many SELF ESTEEM BUILDERS they can. It will be a success to your parenting career!

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