This year our church is participating in
Operation Christmas Child. It's put on by Samaritan's Purse. They collect shoeboxes filled with little gifts and toiletries and send them to kids in 3rd world countries, who wouldn't otherwise get Christmas gifts. Our pastor set a goal for our church to donating 50 boxes. Tim and I put together two boxes. Tim picked out stuff for a boy box and I picked stuff to fill a box for a girl. We had a lot of fun trolling the Dollar Tree for goodies.
Side note: I hadn't been in a Dollar Tree in FOREVER! I was actually kind of impressed with the selection!
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| box for a 10-14 girl |
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| box for a 10 to 14 year old boy |
Some of the items we included were notebooks, pencils and sharpeners, soap, toothbrush/tooth paste, playdough, deodorant, candy, a toy truck, bracelets, combs and mirrors. There were probably a couple other little things too.
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Alexis asked me if everything in the dollar store was actually a dollar. I guess when she was in there with mom she kept asking is this a dollar? even this?that is alexis. We did this last year as well and it only gets more fun when stell bell will be able to pick stuff out!
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