Empty Bowls Benefit
Feed The Hungry

Your club can Feed The Hungry with an Empty Bowls Benefit.

The Jefferson Student Council Kids Care Club in Helena, MT did just that when they painted 90 wooden bowls to auction off for $25.00 each to benefit their local domestic violence shelter. 

Your club can duplicate this project, by ordering wooden bowls to paint for an auction.  If you have access to a ceramics studio or classroom, your club can create bowls that can serve soup or food.   Some towns have studios where you can buy the ceramic piece and glaze it at the studio.  The studio fires it for you.  (Make sure that the glaze does not contain lead).

Your club can choose to have an Empty Bowls Dinner in addition to an Empty Bowls Auction. See Kids Care Clubs
Soup Kitchen Dinner for ideas and steps involved. For Club Activities to start your meeting and a discussion about hunger go to the side bar in the Feed the Hungry project.

The Empty Bowls Project was created in 1990 by a highschool art teacher and his students in Michigan. It has grown into an international organization.  The basic idea for Empty Bowls is that participants create a ceramic bowl, then serve a simple meal of soup and bread.  In exchange for the meal and the bowl, the guest gives a suggested donation of ten dollars. The donations are given to national or international hunger relief organizations.

To receive a packet of information and an Empty Bowls logo stamp for use on the bowls you create, send $5.00 with your name and address to:
Empty Bowls
P.O. Box 1689
Burnsville, NC 28714

This is a great project to raise funds for the hungry and to remind us that many in the world face empty bowls everyday.