How to Distribute

Thanks to the members of the Southern Connecticut Polymer Clay Guild, bottles have been distributed to patients at other hospitals in New England. Guild members cover bottles in their spare time, run contests and hold workshops to encourage the Bottles of Hope project.

Our hope is that other art guilds around the country
will also participate and bring Bottles of Hope to cancer
patients at hospitals and treatment centers everywhere.

What you can do: We are appealing to polymer clay guilds, art guilds and individuals to expand the program to a national initiative. There are no special rules or forms to fill out. You can make bottles or host a workshop at a hospital. If you have no local outlet for the bottles, you can mail finished bottles to the Southern Connecticut Polymer Clay Guild and we will make sure they are distributed to cancer patients in our area.

Mail to: BOH, 18 Poverty Hollow Road, Newtown, CT 06470.

How to distribute the Bottles of Hope: Show some sample bottles to the oncology department of your local hospital. The nurses, who have the most direct contact with patients, can help you give some away to patients. Explain that some patients use their bottles as wish bottles to hold wishes to or from the patient. Some keep them as a memento of their chemo treatment and consider the bottles a wish of health. Maybe some of the nurses would like to keep a few themselves to hold wishes for their patients.

Host a workshop: Many hospitals run art therapy workshops for patients. Polymer clay is so easy to work with and patients will be delighted to create their own Bottles of Hope. This is a perfect medium for children! Share your talents with them.

A word about the project: Our hope is that this project remains grass roots: a one to one sharing of art and love. The Bottles of Hope should NEVER be sold; they are to be given freely to cancer patients to bring hope to their lives.