Creating for happiness
Cards for Kids is such a good cause for creativity, and it’s so easy to get involved. Make a card (or several) and send it in, and it will be delivered to someone who needs a bit of sunshine in their day. Cards for Kids is currently sending paper joy to thirteen seriously ill youngsters and their families, including brothers and sisters too young to understand situations that involve so many doctors and hospital visits and challenges that we all wish no one ever, ever had to face.
And as scrapbookers, I just know we all have extra bits of paper waiting for a purpose. And stamps and stickers that aren’t getting used. Even some extra glitter, perhaps. Adding some sparkle to the day for any of these kids and their parents would be such a perfect way to put those supplies to use. Cards for Kids even has several generous sponsors that give prizes to randomly selected cards sent in, just as a bit of happy karma for spreading sunshine.
Whether you send a card to Cards for Kids, to someone you know personally, or just leave one at your local hospital or doctor’s office, please remember that handmade and handwritten thoughts really can make a difference for someone else. If making stuff makes you happy, this is just an entirely win-win ordeal.
Find all the details for Cards for Kids here, including names and the address where you can send your cards.
If anyone knows of a similar effort here in the UK, could you let me know? Thanks!
Think happy thoughts today! Why not, right?
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11 August 2010, 12:22
Just had the girls in my church youth group do a bunch of cards for this – I sent a box of 30 cards in last week!
11 August 2010, 12:52
http://www.postpals.co.uk/
Here in the UK – every now and then I do a batch of these and send them off!
11 August 2010, 15:30
last semester, in France, we had this kind of collect for children,it’s been going on for several years now.
11 August 2010, 16:01
My friend Viks runs postpals, it’s a fab version of it here in the UK.
11 August 2010, 19:06
Awesome. I send cards to troops all the time. I would love to do this while I am stationed here in England. I will look for the hospitals near me in London, Cambridge and Bury .. thanks for the tips
12 August 2010, 22:40
This is a lovely idea. My daughter’s classmate is always in and out of hospital and he is so brave. He’s back in 23 August and we’re going to his good luck picnic tomorrow. I’d love to start something for his ward if they don’t do it already.
26 October 2019, 11:02
Let’s not wait for happiness as it is within us!
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13 March 2024, 09:46
I use to create it in my childhood.