GET YOUR CHILDREN INVOLVED IN COMMUNITY SERVICE AND VOLUNTEER HIS OR HER TIME - VOLUNTEERING IS A GOOD THING

HOW TO HELP

Do you want to brighten up the days of a sick child? We need your creative spirit and your loving help. There are many ways that you can help the children that we serve.

Teaching our child that it's just as wonderful to give as it is to receive is almost never easy. But once they understand the concept, the rewards can last a lifetime. As a parent, you probably want to guide your child to become a healthy and ethical adult. How can you lead your child to a healthy future? What kind of activities can you do together as a family that will steer your child towards becoming a compassionate adult? Community service and Volunteerism are your answer. Not only will you show your child that it is “cool” to care for others, but it will also be a wonderful way to get others involved.

(1) Kids - Create Bags and Cuddly Dolls - We are filling up bags full of art supplies and cuddly animals to ship off to very ill children in hospitals. We have tons of art supplies, but not enough cuddly animals and bags. We are looking for canvas, cloth, or knitted bags to put the art supplies and cuddly animals in. We are also looking for handmade knitted, crocheted, and sewn cuddly animals, dolls, puppets, and other handmade toys. There is no greater way to show you care than to make a cuddly toy or beautiful bag for a sick or needy child. We have collected Knitting and Sewing Patterns for all of you to help. Not all of these patterns are easy, but we have marked off in red patterns that children can do with help of a parent. Please visit our Knitting / Sewing / Crocheting Page.

(2) Hold a Bear Making Party or Make a Bear On Your Own - Do you want to brighten up the day of a sick child? How about holding a Charity Teddy Bear Making Party or Make a Teddy Bear on Your Own. These are no-sew kits, so you don't need to sew. Tell your teachers, religious leaders, girlscounts and boyscouts leaders, and your parents. Make and stuff a teddy bear for a needy child. Find out what wonderful things can happen when people come together with love in their hearts .... hold a Bear Making Party or Event and you will see. Find out More Here.

(3)Paint Cotton Tote Bags - You can Purchase Cotton Tote Bags and Paint them with Fabric Paint. They are sold here for as low as $.60 per peice. If you can't afford to donate them to us, you can send to us your receipt and we will reimburse you for the bags. (Mention that you are from ArtistsHelpingChildren.org and they may lower the shipping to $3.50)

(4)Make a Foam Tote Bag - No Sewing Involved - There is an arts and crafts activity that you can do that will help us greatly. You can make Foam Tote Bags - No Sewing Involved!! Check it out.

(5) Hold a Paint-a-Mural - Children's groups have been instrumental in helping us bring beautiful murals in to as many institutions as we can. Paint-a-Mural events are entertaining, stress-relieving, and a great way to bond with local community members. Just think of the smiles that you will put on the children's faces, and you will know that you want to help. Your Class, Friends, etc Can get together and Paint-a-Mural. Find out More.

(6) Homemade Cards and Pictures - It would be wonderful if you could make homemade cards and pictures to put in the bags to the children. This could help cheer up a lonely or sad child. Find out Our Contact Info in order to send them to us. Tell your teachers and groups to get more kids involved in this project. Print a Flyer to Get children, schools, clubs, etc to get involved.

(7) Hold a Funddrive or a Arts and Crafts / Stuffed Animal Collection - Get your school, camp, religious organization, etc involved in holding a drive to collect either funds, arts and crafts items, or stuff animals for our cause.

(8) Charitable Birthday Party - Donate some of your birthday gifts to our cause, or hold a bear-making party, or a knitting/sewing party for our cause. Read an article about this.

(9) Have a Yard Sale, Bake Sale, Lemonade Sale, etc With Percentage of Proceeds Going Towards AHC - Help us out by donating a part of your sale proceeds to AHC. This is a good way to show neighbors and others that you care about a good cause.

(10) PRINT OUT OUR ARTISTS HELPING CHILDREN FLYER TO PASS OUT (great way to help us out)

ALL YOU NEED IS LOVE IN YOUR HEART

Hold A Charitable Birthday Party for Your Child with a Charity Party - As a parent, you probably know that the birthday party routine can be an almost painful experience. With about 20 children in your child's class, going to more than one birthday party in one weekend can occur quite often. If you have more than one child, birthday-party weekends can take over your entire life. Finding the right gift takes hours, wrapping the present and preparing the card is more time. When it is your child's turn for a birthday party, do you really want to put other parents through the same routine? Will your child really appreciate 20 birthday gifts on top of what you and your family have already given him? Does your child really need more toys?

Charity Starts With Us - Teaching our children about charitableness needs to start with us.

Community Service : A Family's Guide to Getting Involved - The following information can help you and your family get a start in community service and volunteerism.

Community Involvement: Activities To Do as a Family - As parents, you want to guide and support your children toward a healthy future. How can you set good examples for your children? How can you do more together as a family? Community service and volunteering are ways to do both.

Family Volunteering - No matter how you define ‘family,’ volunteering together benefits your family, community, and the nation at large. The FamilyCares program, an initiative of the Points of Light Foundation, helps to promote compassion through hands-on family projects that help others in need. Involve My Family ... Strengthen my Family ... Project Ideas

How to Discourage Matieralism - What to expect in the early grade-school years During the early grade-school years, children grow more interested in the material world than they were back in kindergarten.

Kids Helping Their Community - The holiday season is a time when we turn our thoughts to giving, especially to those in need. Helping people doesn't have to be limited to the holidays, however. There are lots of terrific kids out there who are working all year round at helping others, caring for the environment, and making their communities better places to live.

Kids for Community - The online center for youth volunteers.

Learning to Lend a Hand - Fostering the volunteer spirit among children

Parents can Teach Kids that Giving is Better than Getting - Parents can tailor volunteer activities to meet their family's interest.

Service Learning Gets Kids Involved - These scenarios are examples of service learning, a method of teaching and learning that integrates practical life experience, service to the community, and academics for students of all ages. Rather than presenting information to students in the isolated environment of a classroom, students see and experience the practical application of knowledge they have gained.

Teaching Kids Business - We are developing the "TeachingKidsBusiness.com Kid's Community Service Program" to provide kids with ideas and opportunities to participate in community service initiatives developed by TeachingKidsBusiness.com .

Volunteering is "in" - Get your kids hooked on helping.

What Are Kids Doing for Your Community? - Community service exposes kids to a wide variety of jobs and careers.

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Artists Helping Children is a Children's site dedicated to comforting children by empowering artists and others to donate artwork, donated murals, donated art supplies, donated toys and a lot of love to sick and needy children. Artists Helping Children also helps artists by giving them information on how they can help the sick and poor children by volunteering to paint murals and other art for hospitals, shelters, clinics, etc. No child should ever have to be sad or have to suffer, that is why we hope that more artists and individuals will help bring colorful art to white walled institutions. We also give you ideas on how and where to donate crayons, colored pencils, clay, markers, paper, and other arts and crafts supplies ... such as what hospitals and shelters you could use these arts supplies to bring a little hapiness and joy to these childrens' lives and to so many white-walled institutions. We also have filled this site with free coloring pages & coloring printouts for children to color with as well as 1000s of free arts and crafts projects for kids to use when they need some crafts ideas. Read Charity Articles