Through the Children’s Birthday Project, each child enrolled receives a birthday box for his or her birthday. Earlier today we told you about the party-in-a-bag kits that were left at our door by a donor, which will be given to a child in a birthday box. Along with the party-in-a-bag, each box also contains, of course, presents!
We fill each birthday box with 6-15 new toys, a new game, 6 new books, a stuffed animal or action figure, school supplies, 3 filler gifts, and a Beanie Baby. To get all the presents wrapped for each box we have wonderful volunteer “wrappers.”
As we’re preparing gifts for children who have spring birthdays, we would love to have some help with wrapping. We ask volunteer wrappers to pick up the bags from our location and wrap each gift individually, providing their own beautiful wrapping paper and ribbons/bo
ws. We estimate that it takes 2 adults about 1 hour to wrap 1 bag of gifts.This is a great activity for groups or for individuals looking to spend their free time giving back to others. Since the bags are taken home, the gifts can be wrapped at a time convenient to you! We just ask that the bags of wrapped gifts be returned to us within 2 weeks.
If you’re interested in helping us wrap gifts, please give us a call at 630-221-8340 or email us at cbp@humanitarianservice.org
I love this post, the project is very great, I just remember the time that I gift wrapped a boy suit for a sponsored child.
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