The Neighborhood Creative Arts Center held its first giving fair earlier this month at Christ Church in La Plata, distributing over 1,000 handmade quality craft kits for children to make as gifts during the holidays.
The center created the event to support creative minds during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and encourage children to create gifts for friends, family, teachers and neighbors for the holidays. Volunteers from the local Rotary Interact Club assembled and distributed the kits to families on Dec. 12.
Georgia Bonney, executive director of the Neighborhood Creative Arts Center, said she hopes to make the event annual in an effort to help out families. Bonney said 50 sets each of 20 different crafts were given out to children, destined to be gifts for mothers, grandmothers, fathers and grandfathers.