Yesterday the younger boys used the drum kit craft your troop sent. The boys really enjoyed making and decorating them. In their schools and daily lives, they experience very little hands on activities, with resources so limited here. So for them to make something with their own hands and proudly take it home, made for a really awesome day.

It worked out perfectly, as a Sergeant from the Army band here, who is in the Army Reserves and her regular job is a school music teacher, came out to provide a small group with some recorder lessons. But she really liked the drum kit project, so after the boys completed the drums, she gave them a percussion lesson instead.

We'll send some more pictures soon, but I attached a few here. Please express our many thanks to your boys and the donating Lowes store. And we'll be sure to send more pictures when we conduct the helicopter building craft.
Thanks a million. Scout on.