I was inspired by Amanda, on her blog Impress Your Kids. She posted a wonderful idea called “Impress Your Sponsored Kids” which I immediately fell in love with! It fits perfectly with my plan to do something mission/service oriented every Wednesday for our Something Special group time.
We sponsor 2 children, both in Rwanda; one through Compassion and 1 through World Vision. We will be adding 2 more children when Krash and Ladybug both reach age 5. This is when we “gave” Pac Man his own sponsored child. It was a really big deal, we even made a child sponsorship lapbook all about it! I also sponsored a child many years ago-who is actually a teenager now! I try to write to her/email her often and plan to make sure I write a letter each time we write with the kids too!
For our first project, I was inspired by Amanda, and decided to go with not only Albert’s initial, but also names. In order to include the littles-I made everyone their own name to decorate-with Pac Man working on the ones we were making for Albert. I just made them in Microsoft and printed them on cardstock. Then I let the kids get busy!
They used: dot paint, glitter glue pens, crayons, & stickers!
Everyone contributed to our big “A” and it turned out cute ;-). Ladybug was VERY into putting the stickers on it!
Pac Man wrote Albert a letter to go along with our crafts… 
I also wrote a letter from me and included updated photos of us all on it…
To keep things easy when it comes time to send things to our sponsored children, I have a notebook for each of them, containing all of the letters they have sent to us and any information we have about them or their project. I make sure to keep the 6×9” envelopes {what we use to send things to Albert via World VIsion’s requirements} in this notebook so I can always find them. They are preaddressed too, so all I have to do is load it up and take it to the PO for proper postage!
See more…
- All Something Special Posts
- Something Special Intro and Schedule
- Our Sponsored Child Lapbook
- Posts here on 1+1+1=1 about child sponsorship