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Cooking, Crafting And Creating At Berner
The club is so popular that there is a separate session for sixth-graders, which accounts for about half of the membership.
From Massapequa Schools: Cooking and crafts come together each month at Berner Middle School in the Massapequa School District, as students participate in holiday and seasonal activities during the after-school club.
The Cooking and Crafts Club has approximately 125 members. The club is so popular that there is a separate session for sixth-graders, which accounts for about half of the membership. Adviser Lisa Tuniewicz leads the club with support from fellow Family and Consumer Science teachers Kristen Kenny and Patricia McDermott.
In October, students made a Halloween craft, lollipop ghosts, and cheese and pretzel-stick spider webs, while in November they decorated cookies to look like turkeys. For December, they took part in the schoolwide holiday door-decorating contest by coming up with designs for the four classroom doors the club was assigned. Sixth-graders, like Ella Livingston and Casey Mangan, say they like the creativity that the projects allow. They also enjoy sharing ideas with their classmates.
“I like doing crafts and I like cooking, too,” added seventh-grader Natalie Wipperman. “The activities are all really fun and not something that you would see or do everyday.”
Photo courtesy of Massapequa School District
