Vigils for Healing

Hands Without Guns

A Children's Activity

Hands Without Guns is a gun-safety and painting activity for elementary and middle school children. A fun and non-threatening activity, it is suitable for community events, school fairs, and church bazaars. Children make a simple pledge to never touch a gun and to report rumors of guns in school to an adult, then they paint their hands and make a colorful handprint on a large cloth banner, signing their name and age underneath.

To help take this message of nonviolence home, the children receive a Hands Without Guns coloring book and a treat. Adults accompanying the children are welcome to pick up gun safety brochures and free gun safety locks (supply permitting). If you live in the Winston-Salem, North Carolina area and would like to help at an upcoming Hands Without Guns event, please Contact Us.

The Hands Without Guns Children's Pledge:

I promise to use my hands in ways that help people, not hurt them. I know that touching a real gun could put me or my friends in danger. If I see a gun I will not touch it. I will get a grown up. Then I will be a life saver.