Earth Day and giving back...

We celebrated Earth Day on Wednesday by doing crafts. we made coffee filter Earths using filters, magic markers and a squirt of water. They turned out really cool. . We talked about things we can do to keep our planet beautiful. And about reusing and recycling. Then we talked about how fortunate we were to live in a place where they have a warm, safe home, water and food.I tried my best to explain to them that so many children in other parts of the world don't have those basic things, and how fortunate and blessed we are to have them. They both really got it.. even Jack. Bella asked" Couldn't we send them some water so they won't be thirsty anymore?"

I decided to let them choose one charity they both wanted to donate to. And we talked more about how important it is to help others. I was going down a long list I found and stumbled onto charitywater.org I explained what they did to help people get clean water that they didn't have and they immediately said they would like to do that one. So we set aside a jar and once we reach our first goal of $50.00 I'll send it in. They both took $5 from their piggy banks and put it in the jar. They were really excited to be able to help out. It makes me so proud!
Also when going over charities we went onto locks of love I explained what it was and Isabella saw pictures of kids on there and kids around her ago who had donated hair to make wigs and she said she would really like to do that too. I told her she would have to grow her hair for a really LONG time. I didn't think much of it but then again today she said out of the blue. "Daddy we aren't going to cut my hair anymore I'm doing locks of love." So I guess she's REALLY serious about it! We will have to wait and see.