Primary Children's Service Projects

We have been quite heavily involved in our ward's service project for Primary Children's Hospital. It was such a great project that I hope our ward does it again next year (in lieu of a sub for Santa tree because it allowed my kids to be involved a lot more).

Tom was in charge of a Duty to God activity in the teacher's quorum in November and we helped the boys tie a quilt for the hospital. While it wasn't grandly accepted at first, the boys all pitched in and did their part. Then, thankfully to my mom, it got bound.As a family we made pillow cases and medical dolls (don't have pictures of the latter). The boys were able to help quite a bit with both projects. (they loved the serging part!)I was also involved in the Primary portion of the activity. The kids worked on these service charts for about 5 weeks before the activity. (on the back of each chart was a list of ideas of things the kids could do for each box)At the ward Christmas party, they came to the "Helping Hands Gift Shop" to purchase items for the hospital with their service chart. Each chart was worth $1 and each item in the store was worth $1. (all of the store items were donated by people in our ward--you can see they were very generous!) Then they got to make a card to go on their gift(s). It was such a wonderful project because everyone in the ward from the Primary up was involved in service.