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VIDEO | MOWA’s SPARK program teams students with seniors for Thanksgiving

November 27, 2019 – West Bend, WI – First graders from Holy Angels School in West Bend worked on a Thanksgiving project with senior citizens this week during the SPARK! program at the Museum of Wisconsin Art.

SPARK is a free program for people with memory loss and their caregivers. The program engages participants in conversation about Wisconsin art.

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On Monday the students and seniors built a Thanksgiving wreath. They cut colorful leaves out of paper and used a glue stick to secure the leaves to a round piece of cardboard. With magic marker the kids wrote a Thanksgiving message in middle of the wreath.

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MOWA has been part of the regional SPARK! Alliance since 2009, thanks to seed support from the Helen Bader Foundation, and offers this program to highlight and promote self-expression and mental stimulation.

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