Gotta Have Art, Gotta Give Art!

We are in the spirit of giving and sharing and I make it a point every year, as young as our boys are, to find a little cause for us to donate to that they participate in. During this time that I'm keeping my eye out for our special cause this holiday season, we put our old couch on Craigslist to sell and it got me interested in looking at the "wanted" section. I found a post from a kindergarten teacher from one of the schools here in Bend. She said that most of the kids in her class are below poverty level and she was asking for donations of crayons and paper or whatever people could manage. She told a story about how all the kids were coloring pictures and it was time to go home so she told them they could take it home and finish coloring the picture there. A little boy then asked her if he could take two crayons home so he could color. He didn't have any crayons at home, and I think that was what prompted her to ask for help. We all know that TEACHERS DON'T MAKE NEARLY AS MUCH AS THEY DESERVE and she was spending her own money buying clothes and art supplies for each of them and she needed help. I LOVE the idea of the boys helping other children who are about their age (especially since their own arts & crafts cabinet is overflowing with things to do and their Grandma happens to be a retired teacher of 31 years. This was the THING for us to do this year!) So off we went to the store and made small individual "packages" for each of the 16 children in the kindergarten class complete with a little package of crayons, colored pencils or paints, and a couple of Christmas tree ornaments to take home. We are delivering the basket tomorrow, YAY!