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.

CRAFTS FOR KIDS, ART RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN, FREE COLORING PAGES, & FREE ARTS & CRAFTS IDEAS AND ACTIVITIES

Photographer: Sean Dreilinger	It is almost Father's Day time so check out our Father's Day Crafts for Kids Page to find some great arts and crafts project ideas for kids to give Dad on Father's Day such as handmade cards, jewelry, pictures, and other gifts. Also check out our Father's Day Crafts page in our new arts and crafts directory.
Photographer: Adwriter	It is almost Fourth of July time so check out our 4th of July Crafts for Kids Page to find some great arts and crafts project ideas for kids to celebrate Independence Day on July 4th. Also check out our 4th of July Crafts page in our new arts and crafts directory.

CHANGES TO ARTISTS HELPING CHILDREN - PLEASE READ

Artists Helping Children is No Longer Acting as a Nonprofit Due to the New Provisions of The Pension Protection Act of 2006 Passed on August 03, 2006. We Are No Longer Accepting Donations of Any Kind. We are Currently Keeping This Site Up As Is and Will Continue to Post Information on Any Updates to the Status of Artists Helping Children. The Site Still Has a Wealth of Information and Can Still Be Used as Such. We Are Obviously Deeply Distressed Over This Provision That Was Secretly Included In This New Law and We Were Taken by Complete Surprise. We Hope in the Future That We Will Be Able to Change the Status of Our Organization so That We Can Once Again Resume Our Help to Children. Thank You Very Much to Everyone Who Has Worked With Us So Hard Up Until Now. Please Continue to Use This Site for Free Coloring Pages / Printouts, Arts and Crafts Project Ideas, and as a Resource for Childrens Art Articles, etc. Don't worry, All donations of items that were sent to us will still be sent to hospitals and shelters, etc. All recent checks sent to us will be mailed back to you. Thanks.

Take advantage of the huge childrens' arts resources pages of kids' coloring pages and coloring printouts, childrens' free art resources such as arts and crafts for kids, craft projects & ideas, crafts for kids from common household materials (trash to treasure section), paper folding projects & origami project ideas, kids' drawing lessons, articles for parents to involve their children in the arts, articles on how art heals & how to get children involved in community service, how to design and decorate your children's rooms, and much more.

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 se when they need some crafts ideas.