Welcome!

We are so happy to kick off a new year with a new bunch of volunteers. This site is where you will be able to sign up your child for service events. 

This year, we have close to 40 members! This is significantly higher than last year. VolunteerSpot will allow parents to sign up their child for events as well as allow us to limit the number if needed. We will do our best to schedule events in which everyone can participate! 

Please return your child's T-shirt orders by next Friday. Additional shirts are available at $5 a piece. Members shirts are included within the dues. 

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me!

New Year about to Launch!

Applications for the 2014-2015 team of Helping Hands are out and due by Wednesday. Our first meeting will be this Thursday at 3:45. Mrs. K. Brown and Mrs. Woodin are planning to serve as leaders as well! I am looking forward to a great year of service with a fantastic group of young volunteers. 

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!