Kids Helping Haiti

With all of the media about the earthquake in Haiti right now, it is hard to keep the kiddos from seeing or hearing about what is going on over there and it is a scary sight.

When the subject came up I wanted to be as gentle as possible and I wanted to give them a way to help also. Here is my conversation with my kiddos, it's not perfect, but it is a start.

Mom: there was a really big earthquake in Haiti. An earthquake makes the ground shake really bad and in Haiti it shook so badly that the houses got broken and the trees fell to the ground and the cars crashed. It hurt alot of people.

Aidman: Did the police officers go help them?

Mom: Yes they did.

Aidman: did the ambulance go help?

Mom: yes, the Army did too.

Aidman: Did the rescue copter go too? All the way over there?

Mom: Yes the Rescue helicopter went there too, alot of people are trying to help. Ya, know we could help too. They need to pay money to help fix things and get medicine to help the hurt people, so maybe we can collect money to send to Haiti. We can make money jars to collect our money in.

Aidman: how can the money get there?

Mom: we can send it in the mail.

Aidman: the mailman will go all the way over there? Will he drive his car?

Mom: A different mailman will put it in a plane and fly it there.

Aidman: Do we have to give them our money jars?

Mom: No, we can keep our jars and just give them the money.

I LOVE the way little minds think!!! So, we got to making money jars.


Get a jar (it can be any kind, we used 1 salsa, 1 olive, 1 jelly, and 3 baby food jars) and paint either 1 part water and 1 part glue or modge podge on it.

Stick on tissue paper squares. You can also use streamer paper if you have it.

Then paint the glue mixture or modge podge over the tissue paper.

Mom can make a slit in the top for the change.

Aidman made his all yellow like a banana, AB made hers like a rainbow, and Lyssy made hers all pink because pink is her favorite color.

If you don't have the materials for the above jars you could always make ones like this.... Color jar with sharpie markers (look how intent they are).

And cover with stickers. Aidman loved his Batman stickers!

How appropriate for Lyssy to put these stickers on her money jar!

As soon as Daddy walked in the door the kiddos asked him if he had any money. I promised that I would give them any change I get from the store. I even caught Lyssy trying to open up her piggy bank to put her money in the money jar. My children have truly touched my heart today with their sweetness!

To top it all off, our Bible Devotion (The One Year Devotions for Preschoolers by Little Blessings) read...
"Parker and Jack like doing things together. God created us so that we need each other. God is happy when people help each other and are kind to one another. God wants us to be kind to play nicely with our friends. God wants us to be kind to people in our neighborhood. And God especially wants us to love everyone who loves him. Can you think of something kind you can do for someone today?"
BTW, it just happened that this was the January 14 passage!! Aidman said "Mom, we did something kind today! We made money jars for the hurt people in Haiti!"