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<\/a><\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019ve been working on it since school started,\u201d Nye said. \u201c(The students) were really into it, even the ones who weren\u2019t great at braiding. They would help at knotting the bags together. The blue bags were a hot commodity, so everyone really wanted the blue ones to weave in.\u201d<\/p>\n
For some, braiding came easy. For others, not so much, but all students in grades three through five had the opportunity to pitch in for the good cause.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have about 15 minutes down here, which wasn\u2019t enough time for them to really be able to make one all the way through. They would just clip what they had done and the next person would come behind. We talked about how we were doing this as a school community and everyone had a little piece,\u201d Nye said.<\/p>\n
While students were hard at work, Nye was on the lookout for a potential recipient for these bag-ropes. Thanks to a mutual friend on social media, she connected with the Maison Fortune Orphanage in Haiti to receive the completed jump ropes. In addition, the school planned to keep some of the ropes for use during the winter\u2019s Jump Rope for Heart campaign.<\/p>\n
The students were not only excited about creating their jump ropes, they also saw the conservational benefits in helping to reuse the otherwise discarded bags.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey would say, \u2018Oh yeah, we\u2019re really helping the environment. All these plastic bags, they would have just got thrown away, and now kids in Haiti have them literally jumping rope,\u2019\u201d Nye said.<\/p>\n
Earlier this December, children at the orphanage received their jump ropes and sent back video messages on social media of them putting the ropes to good use. However, the relationship was brought to a new level this week when Kingston students had the chance to video-chat live with the children in the orphanage.<\/p>\n