Loneliness, living alone and poor social connections are as bad for your health as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. (Holt-Lunstad, 2010)
To help people reduce loneliness, we have planned an art project, an art organization about family activities, divided into three sections: family poster production, LEGO construction and clothing re-engineering. We will conduct these three events in the form of competitions. These activities are done by parents and their children. For example, in the re-engineering activities, I will plan parents and children to exchange one old T-shirt with each other, and then use different fabrics, materials and accessories to re-create a new one. Clothes are given as gifts to each other. Finally, we will select the winning families in each event and distribute movie tickets as rewards.
The reason why we use movie tickets as a reward is because I think this is another way to promote parent-child interaction, which can also reduce loneliness. The above is an overview of the activities I have done in this project.
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