Make a Let Freedom Ring Streamer of “hands and bells” based on the paragraph from King’s “I Have a Dream” Speech. The idea is to have children trace their hands on colored paper, cut out the tracings and write their names on the paper hands. Hang them on a strong piece of string.  Alternate hands with bells.  Your club will be “joining hands and letting freedom ring!

“I have a dream today! I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama . . . little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers. I have a dream today. . . With this faith we will be able to work together, to pray together, to struggle together, to go to jail together, to stand up for freedom together, knowing that we will be free one day. This will be the day when all of God's children will be This will be the day when all of God's children will be able to sing with new meaning -- my country tis of the; sweet land of liberty; of thee I sing . . . So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire . . . from the mountains of New York . . . from the curvaceous slopes of California . . . let freedom ring.”

Materials Needed:
Heavy string
Colored paper
Scissors, glue, markers
Bells
Tacks or heavy duty tape to hang streamer

Steps Involved:

1. Fold the colored paper in half so the wrist is placed at the fold.
2. Write each child’s name on both sides of their hand.
3. Hang it over the string and glue it from the inside
   Alternate bells after several hands on the sting
   Hang in your classroom or take to a senior center, homeless shelter. 
4. Consider doing this project at the senior or homeless center and incorporate the residents' hands on your Let Freedom Ring streamer.