Click here to learn about our "Create A Mural Now" workshops, where youth work as a team to design and create a mural. The theme can fit your needs. Each project culminates with a party and gift bags for all participants.

Nina went back to teach them how to make "Thanksgiving Journals." Then she brought her friend Stephanie Wayland to help the kids make holiday ornaments and keychains. Nina said, "As the weeks go by, our fun, trust and creativity blossoms."

Tracy Chin is the Volunteer Coordinator at Upward Bound House. "Since I started working at UBH, I've never seen the kids so engaged in activities. Nina and her friends do a great job at providing fun and exciting projects for the kids to participate in and they really enjoy it!"

10 year-old Kithan said, "I loved it because I got to be so creative."

Special thanks to the sponsors of our Take Heart program

The Yahoo! Employee Foundation and the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

The Arts and Crafts Workshop was also made possible in part by the City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs and the Los Angeles Times Family Fund, a division of the McCormick Tribune Foundation. We're very grateful to all of our sponsors.