Operation Christmas Child: Fill a Shoe Box! part 2

See our first post about filling a shoebox here.

For complete instructions and more insight to the purpose of filling a shoebox please visit

you still have time to fill up your shoeboxes!

November 14-21 is Collection Week.

Samaritan’s Purse website will help you find a place locally to drop them off.

we switched to plastic containers after one of my readers commented that plastic containers can be reused by the recipient of the gift. these are sterilite containers from target and were $1.49 each.

the kids absolutely loved this project!

hank is showing you how to double bag all candy. i’m pretty sure picking out the candy was his favorite part.

5 boxes ready to go!

Each box needs a $7.00 donation (which is so minimal when you think about the impact). we chose to donate our $35.00 online and Samaritan’s Purse emailed me a confirmation with barcoded labels attached.

I tape the appropriate label to each box and the barcode will be scanned and tracked so we know where our boxes go!

how cool is that??!

here is one of our “boy” boxes.
stickers, ball, washcloth, harmonica, cars, markers, combs, candy, tissues, paper, toothbrush/paste, crayons, jump rope, jacob’s ladder, chinese yo-yo, socks

here is one of our “girl” boxes.
doll, candy, washcloth, hair clips, socks, toothbrush/paste, wand, harmonica, jump rope, tissues, tiara/wand, markers, crayons, paper, jacob’s ladder, chinese yo-you, pony, combs, ball, stickers

fill a shoebox!