I cut a large hole in the top of the lid for the items to be dropped into. I wrapped the top and bottom
How to Make an Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Filler Collection Box
Several years ago we wanted to collect items for packing shoeboxes in our AWANA clubs at church. The kids' church leader wanted to have the kids pack boxes for Operation Christmas Child in their Sunday morning program and needed fillers. So we took empty copy paper boxes and made giant wrapped shoeboxes as collection receptacles.
I cut a large hole in the top of the lid for the items to be dropped into. I wrapped the top and bottom
I cut a large hole in the top of the lid for the items to be dropped into. I wrapped the top and bottom
Aunt Norni's Simple Crochet Shell Mini Blanket ~ Designed for Operation Christmas Child Shoeboxes
My mother-in-law, dubbed "Aunt Norni" by her eldest nephew when he couldn't pronounce her name, was an avid crocheter. She made hundreds of baby afghans for women in crisis pregnancies. One year she purchased dozens of little baby dolls and crocheted little blankets for them for Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes. She patiently taught my daughter Elizabeth, then six, how to crochet.
She loved trying new patterns. She would make almost each afghan from a different pattern. The last several years of her life her mind wouldn't always keep
Leftovers Potluck Operation Christmas Child Packing Party Idea
I love the internet! So many ways to learn more about packing Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes from so many people. Jennifer shared a while back on Simply Shoe Boxes' Facebook page that she and some friends all had leftover fillers from packing their own shoe boxes. None of them had enough of everything needed to fill more boxes, but that didn't stop them! They got together with their leftovers and had a potluck packing party! I loved this idea and had to pass it on. Their final count?? Sixty One more boxes packed!!!
Four of my favorite Facebook shoe box packing pages to follow:
Do you have any favorite shoe box packing communities you frequent online?
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| How many more boxes could be packed if we all joined our loaves and fishes at leftover potluck packing parties? |
Do you have any favorite shoe box packing communities you frequent online?
Smiling Faces On Every Christmas Child ~ Operation Christmas Child Shoebox Song
One of the first images of shoebox kids in my memory is from an Operation Christmas Child video from years ago (many, many years). They put delightful (and not so delightful) images to the song below. We made it an annual Christmas shoe box packing tradition to watch this video as a family at shoe box packing time. But it is sooooo moving, that my daughters, now adults, agreed it was too depressing to watch each year.
Even my husband gets teary eyed watching it. My youngest daughter tells how she remembers if she was sitting next to Daddy while he watched this video he would
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| Image courtesy OCC. |
Sweet Memories from Our AWANA Kids' Shoe Box Packing Party
Two sweet children gave us a couple of fun memories from our Spur of the Moment Packing Party this year for Operation Christmas Child. We had the children fill out the OCC letter forms the week before the party. My daughter was organizing them, readying them for the party, and as she did it she saw one from a sweet little guy she works with each week so she read it. Under "your favorite thing to spend time doing" he had put down "look for acorns." LOVE IT!!! I am an outside type of gal, and with the new age of electronics, kids are so often having to be told to play or get outside, that this warmed my heart. I have fond memories from my own and my children's childhoods of "looking for acorns."
This same little guy listened intently as my husband emphasized to remove just ONE item from each box to put into their shoe boxes. My daughter was with him as he began down the line. He reached the first box. It contained ziploc bags full of school supplies. He picked up one of the bags and began trying to get it open and when Sarah asked why he was opening it he said, "I have to choose just one item from this box to put in." She assured him one "bag" full of school supplies counted as one item.
We had purchased the playhouse type balls to include the boxes. When organizing the fillers by age groups we pulled out all of the pink balls and put them in the 5 to
This same little guy listened intently as my husband emphasized to remove just ONE item from each box to put into their shoe boxes. My daughter was with him as he began down the line. He reached the first box. It contained ziploc bags full of school supplies. He picked up one of the bags and began trying to get it open and when Sarah asked why he was opening it he said, "I have to choose just one item from this box to put in." She assured him one "bag" full of school supplies counted as one item.We had purchased the playhouse type balls to include the boxes. When organizing the fillers by age groups we pulled out all of the pink balls and put them in the 5 to
Memory & Matching Game Scrap Fabric Tutorial ~ Designed to Pack in an Operation Christmas Child Shoebox
I have hundreds of "armholes" cut from the Pillow Case Style dresses I have been making for my Operation Christmas Child shoeboxes. I need to be using them up some how. I just know they can be put to good use as shoebox gifts. The first project I decided to use them in is a matching game for the 2 to 4 year old boxes.
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