In keeping with our tradition we started last year, we filled some shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child. We spent one FHE shopping and planning and then the next Monday we filled our shoeboxes. The girls were so excited to put (pile) everything in. We decided to do 2 girls, ages 2-4. We bought dress-up clothes, toys, hard candy, crayons, notebooks, playdoh, hair accessories and more. Then the girls filled out sheets about themselves (while eating candy canes) to put in the boxes. I found these sheets on OCC's website. They were really cute and fun to do since Cyrena could do the writing on hers.
This year was especially fun because Cyrena understands it a little more. It will be interesting to see her understanding deepen each year. We watched a couple of promo videos so she could see some of the kids getting their boxes previous years. That really helped her. Now she has seen where some of the kids live and what they look like. Now she prays that they can have a better place to live. We told her even if they don't have a nice home to live in, receiving our boxes will help them feel happy!
If you want to fill boxes, there's still time! They're collecting until November 22.
This year was especially fun because Cyrena understands it a little more. It will be interesting to see her understanding deepen each year. We watched a couple of promo videos so she could see some of the kids getting their boxes previous years. That really helped her. Now she has seen where some of the kids live and what they look like. Now she prays that they can have a better place to live. We told her even if they don't have a nice home to live in, receiving our boxes will help them feel happy!
If you want to fill boxes, there's still time! They're collecting until November 22.
1 comment:
What a wonderful idea. I always do the Christmas Angels for each of my kids but we usually pick them from the children's hospital's tree. You know more of the, "there, but for the grace of God, go we" kind of feeling.
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