Here’s a sweet art project that’s perfect for the times right now. Girls to the Moon offers instructions for how to make Signs of Acceptance to show people that you care about them and are on their side. The site says: What are some words you could say to let people know they are safe with…
Category: helping out
Mama’s Holiday Helpers
I love this sweet idea from Magical Mama Lisa at Simple Gifts Toys. She says, “I thought I’d show you all how my kids are earning Christmas gifting money while helping me get through the busy season. In the white envelopes are things like cup of cocoa, book with mommy, and a few tiny items…
Want to Help? Get a Haircut!
I’m in love with this simple way to help with the oil spill clean up. It turns out that hair, fur, wool and nylons are some of the best materials for filtering oil out of water, and a non-profit company has been using donated boxes of the stuff to help clean up oil spills for…
Help Kids With Dolly Donations
Have you heard of this neat site? Dolly Donations offers free, simple cloth doll patterns and coordinates drives to donate dolls to children in need all over the world. Magical Mama Sarah, who runs the site, just sent 181 dolls (and a few extras!) off to a Haiti orphanage, one for every child in the…
Can You Help With a Post Card Drive?
Ten year old Satori is headed to the hospital for some major surgery at the end of this month and her mother is asking folks to send her some post cards. Details are here. The address to send the cards is at the bottom in green. I’m sure we can swing some from our gang…