Pop Tab Pandemonium

This year, Helping Hands helped launch a collection drive for pop tabs to benefit the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Kansas City. There is a special event, Pop Tab Pandemonium, scheduled for Saturday, May 10th at the Longfellow House by Children's Mercy Hospital. While the volunteer opportunities were filled, we have been invited to come as visitors to donate our pop tabs and take a tour of the house. We have also been added as potential volunteers in next year's event. The carnival-like event is FREE and promises to be a great day.

For more information, check out the VolunteerSpot link on the top left of our blog.

Harvesters

Thank you to all of the volunteers that came and helped us at Harvesters today! Our job today was to box up bread items that will be delivered to several distributors in the Kansas City area. The families helped tape boxes, sort the bread, label the boxes, and stack them on the large pallets. We were busy little workers, but were able to box up all of the bread they had laid out for us. The kids are already asking when we can go back!

Easter Egg Hunt Pictures

Easter Egg Hunt

Carnival Bake Sale

Helping Hands plans to host an Easter egg hunt for students with special needs who attend any district's elementary buildings or early childhood center. In order to raise the much needed funds for this event, PTO has agreed to allow us to have a bake sale during the upcoming carnival on March 7th at PB.

For families willing to donate baked goods for our bake sale, please send them to school by Thursday, March 6th. If you would, please package cookies or cupcakes into packages of 4 to prevent multiple people from handling the baked goods. Also, please clearly mark anything that contains peanut products or nuts. If you have any question, please do not hesitate to contact Mrs. Twiehaus or Ms. Shonda!

Also, we are in need of volunteers to work the bake sale. You can sign up your child using VolunteerSpot. Again, you can use this view our upcoming projects and sign up just by clicking the link on the left-hand side of the blog.

Thank you in advance for your support!

Sneak Peek!

We have a group of kiddos eager to present to the school board tomorrow night. Here is a sneak peek of their presentation. I am very proud of their willingness to present as well as their abilities to pull this all together.

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Board Presentation ~ Thursday, January 23rd

Please join us this coming Thursday evening, January 23rd, at 6:50 pm for a special presentation for the district's board of education. We have a special invitation from the district to share about our club. The students have been working hard to prepare for the evening. We will begin presenting at 7:00 pm and should be finished and ready to leave by 7:15 pm at the latest. Please have your child wear their Helping Hands T-shirts and be at Grain Valley North Middle School's library at 6:50 pm. This will be a special evening highlighting our students and their desire to serve our community.