Operation Christmas Child

In some of our previous posts I have written about how Ryan's teacher likes to promote "giving back" to the community. So far we have done a walk for the homeless and after the holidays his class is going to sell hot chocolate in the mornings at school and give the proceeds to charity. I thought I would help her out by organizing the class to give items to put in the shoe boxes for Operation Christmas Child. The kids each brought in items and we had enough to put together a box for a boy and a girl. If you go online and make a donation to help with the shipping they will track your box for you and let you know where it ends up and what the kids are like in that region. I think that the kids will enjoy knowing that information. The one hiccup that I came across with this project was how to explain to a group of seven year olds why Santa can't find these kids. I explained that the boxes were given to the Moms and Dads so that they would have a gift to give to their kids since they don't have much money for gifts or many stores where they live (or the Internet, because online shopping did come up!)