Updates from the Rainmakers

Hi, we’re the Rainmakers! We are an all-men’s group at Outside the Box. We go on outings to places like the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis, Trader’s Point Creamery and the toy museum.  

Some of our favorite things to do at OTB are listening to music, eating lunch together, doing cooking classes and dance classes, playing Uno and reading books and magazines. 

Last week, we learned about volunteering and how Keep Indianapolis Beautiful makes the city look nice. We went to a community vegetable and flower garden and pulled weeds for Keep Indianapolis Beautiful. Jenny from KIB showed us which weeds to pull so we wouldn’t accidentally pull vegetables and flowers. All the OTB groups went together--the Dolphins, Rainmakers, Icicles, Dreamers and Celebrities. Our leaders were Aaron, Melanie, Andrew, Stella, Kimberly and Ian. Jenny took a picture of us with the painting we made for KIB and said thank you to us for the painting of the tree. We all signed the back of the painting. She also brought us water, shovels, buckets and gloves for working. It was a hot day and we all got sweaty, so we drank a lot of water and had fun. Afterward, we went to Holliday Park to eat lunch together. 

This month, we learned about Independence Day, the history of the United States of America, Guatemala (a country in Central America), volunteering and Indianapolis. We really enjoyed learning about Indianapolis and made a collage of what we like about Indianapolis. We put on the collage the Broad Ripple Art Fair, the Children’s Museum, the IMA, the Indianapolis Zoo, the Indiana State Museum, the Indiana State Fair, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the Eiteljorg, downtown Indianapolis, farmers’ markets, Monument Circle, Conner Prairie, concerts, restaurants and food.