As Double Wolf Dare Week (DWDW) approaches, Family, Career and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) have gathered many supplies for this year’s recipient- Infant Crisis Services. To celebrate this accomplishment, FCCLA had a baby shower on Feb. 11.

“Family, Careers, and Community Leaders of America (FCCLA) is an organization that works to strengthen families and communities, it’s literally what we’re about,” culinary teacher and FCCLA sponsor Kristen Harris said. 

Harris and Amy Arbuckle designed a Kahoot to start the baby shower. Students had to answer questions about babies. While competing, students were designing a playdough baby. At the end, the FCCLA officers voted for who made the best baby and the winner got a candy prize. 

Following that activity, students were given a baby bottle with mini marshmallows in the bottle. Arbuckle and Harris challenged them to guess the number of marshmallows inside. 

Then, three students volunteered to do a baby food tasting game where they had to guess the baby food flavor put in their mouths. Three other students volunteered to feed the baby food to these contestants. These baby food flavors consisted of sweet potato, banana and chicken. 

Three more students were challenged to a diaper contest. This is where a baby, a diaper and a blindfold were given to each student. Whoever put on the diaper the fastest was given a prize. 

Arbuckle and Mrs. Harris then collected baby pictures of many teachers. Including: Joe Peeler, Harris, Bill Arbuckle, Amy Arbuckle, Kara Ledbetter, Hailey Wansick, and Stephanie Bray. 

Cupcakes were then given to every student. These cupcakes contained icing inside indicating the gender of their own baby. Yellow stood for twins, pink for girls and blue for boys. 

“It allowed students to learn about ICS, collect meaningful donations, and build excitement for DWDW in a hands-on, real-world way. It made service tangible instead of just something we talk about,” Harris said. 

Throughout the past couple of months, Arbuckle and Harris collected donations for Infant Crisis Center, allowing them to provide impoverished children with the things they need. 

Harris hopes students learned from this experience saying, “I hope they saw that small contributions add up, that community partnerships matter, and that they have the ability to make a real impact right now, not “someday.” I also hope they learned empathy, that behind every diaper or can of formula is a family trying their best.”