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I am a horse girl, too! I made lots of girl horse shoeboxes and filler. I write a little note about how much I loved having horses on the farm and I would ride them and brush them. They made such wonderful companions. They are very social and especially like when you let another horse come along on your ride. Riding horses is a fun thing to do by yourself or with friends. I love that blanket. A think a girl will be so happy to receive that!

How do you join this Facebook group

All items are beautiful! The children will be so excited to receive them❤ I would love to see a tutorial on how to make the mask mirrors. They are so unique!

I appreciate you making this video. I understand the concern about slave labor and do not purchase from the ones you mentioned. I do purchase from Dollar tree and wonder how those items are made so inexpensively unless they also have slave labor. I would suggest you check the ungodly support that Target insists on contributing to. You can find the info on the American family association site. Thanks for all you do

School supplies, as notebooks, do not fit in the official boxes. We use adult shoe boxes. This happened to be a year I didn't make toys, lap quilts but did make carry bags. The clothes I bought on sale but the age range is so broad it is almost awful to get something suitable. We have considered the boxes as "life savers" and attempt to put things that will last, be helpful, could be shared, etc. The year we could not get shoe boxes (stores changing), we got official boxes and about half of what we had ready to pack would not fit in. Sandals, cups, school notebooks, recorders....

Very fun pencil packs.

I have started packing already for next year. I felt the urge to send another box yesterday and did so yesterday through Cross Catholic Outreach Box of Joy program.

I went over to your website and there is no printable for the friendship bracelet. Would love to have access. If not there, where can you suggest I find it? (Besides your FB gropu which someone has blocked me from - for which I have no idea why.) Thanks for any help. I"m quite content to be blocked as I have no choice about it, but would love to know where a similar printable could be found with that information about the friendship bracelets.

Just a warning that dice may be confiscated as they can be used for gambling. When I volunteered at the warehouse as a sorter decks of cards and dice were taken out as some areas had high gambling problems and they didn't want to enable that in anyway. Cards like uno or matching cards were acceptable.

Thanks for putting up a PO box that we can send things to to help you in your packing should we find great deals but can't pack boxes. :)

Am interested in all this and joined Blessings in a Shoebox facebook group. Then, as I was checking out the files section, suddenly nothing was there. It was very strange. Now I can't even find the Blessings in a Shoebox FB group so obviously I've been blocked. As a missionary in Poland who actually has passed out those boxes, it is a bit frustrating to be considered a spammer. If someone would unblock me, I'd appreciate it. I want to spread the word to my loved ones in our home town about OCC. Thankfully I've found some other FB groups, but even in going to your website, they send people to the FB group to get the files such as decorating the boxes pictures, etc.

When I went to the processing center in Atlanta last year we came across a box that only had one baby doll in it and that was it! We were so shocked! We had some fillers but not as much as I wish we would have. The processing centers can always use fillers! It's so important and needed!

We do a group picture on packing day of who’s there and a note with what our church is and that we love them in Jesus Christ!😊 Is there directions or information on the mirror masks somewhere? Please share. I would love to make some. I make fleece snugglies with satin binding on one side.

I start shopping right after Christmas. If you watch the clearance sales after Christmas, you can get some good quality toys. I bought a six pack of Barbie dolls from Sam’s when year after Christmas and the real Barbies cost me like three dollars apiece. And they will last longer than the generic ones.I also look for big packages with multiple dinosaurs or small cars and trucks and then we just open the packages and put the new toys in the boxes

This year i did 10-14. I found a puzzle that was 9 small puzzles of different puppies in pook a dot teacups. It came with a poster. I took the puzzles out of the box and put them into a canvas zip bag i got at hobby lobby. I found a coloring book full of stickers that can be colored with a multy pack of colored pencils and a sharpener. I put those items into another canvas totbag and added a fun journal. A hair brush, toothpaste and toothbrush were practical items. I found some cute craft packs. One was 3 ornaments to color and the other was window suncatchers to paint. 4 rubber stamps with butterflies and a purple ink pad. In an organza bag i put a handmade siap that smells like strawberrykiwi and 2 flavored blistix capstick. Lastly, a bracelet. I did not do a "wow" item but I was try8ng to be prayerful and spirit led so i pray the girl who receives it is wowed as she explores the mystery of bags.

Just went to Harbor freight and got the hammer and screw driver sets and some flash lights 😊 Thanks for the video 😊

Thank you for the information. So many good ideas for someone who is new to this and only does a few boxes a year. Much gratitude.

If people want to build a box, but don't have a lot of money or time, they can build a shoe box online for $25 and it goes to the hardest to reach areas. They get to choose several items, including soccer balls!

That was impressively crammed.

I just got accepted into blessings in a shoebox Facebook group, then apparently I got blocked. Can someone please check on it for me? I was just just getting to checking out the tutorials - and wanted to see all the things there - what have I done? Can someone please unblock me? Becky Tillman Petersen - thank you (nov. 24)

Such wonderful items for shoeboxes! I’m excited to share that I mow have a friend who helps me and she has decided to help with items for the shoeboxes with me next year! So I won’t be working so much alone to fill more shoeboxes in 2025! ❤👏🙏🏼❤️👏🙏🏼❤️👏🙏🏼❤️👏🙏🏼

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Love the ideas. In these other cultures, if it is a choice between a soccer ball or plush, the soccer ball is going to be a huge hit. We were helping a group of kids here (Poland) and the kids didn't have a ball, so they made one with duct tape and trash paper - to play with. (it was inside). That made quite an impression on me. American kids have no idea how poor some of these kids are.

Thank you for packing with intention! Adorable box!

I pack a lot of shoe boxes and the squishiest you are showing look too big to me. I would rather pack a smaller squishie in order to pack more toys.

We are missionaries in Poland and have given these out in the past. However, I did check every box before I gave it to make sure it had at least one toy. Back when we did it (many years ago now - more than 10), apparently you could include toothpaste, soap, etc. because there often was not very many toys and that is the the thing that the kids went over. They dug through it looking for even that one toy - the other things were ignored. Now, I'm sure once they took it home and had time to look again, they would enjoy the other things as well, but I agree - send TOYS!

Live the butterfly mirrors, where r they from?

I’m a team coach at the Atlanta processing center. We plan on processing 2 million out of Atlanta. I love the lid art!!!

this is one of my favorite videos! Michelle, you really pushed the boat out with those precious sewing kits! How could the girls not feel the love of the Lord with those??!!?? Thank you for showing us these Christy!!!!!

another wonderful video, Christy! Thank you!

Thank you for this video ❤

I'm doing my first boxes and only have one day left, ahh. Taking my grandkids to help me choose toys tomorrow!! Pray for us to do good!

This is my second year. I did one box last time, packed full for a girl 5-9 and bought ahead a little for this year. I'm doing 3. Next year I'll do boys and am already picking up some things. I just ordered from lionwholesale. They have some great stuff for good prices. I love the light up LED tambourine! I just hope it arrives in time! One tip is that dollar tree is not cheaper for everything. Sometimes it's more. I got a pack of good crayons at Walmart for I think .69c and after back to school sales it's even cheaper.

I have a brother named Roger. You packed a very full thoughtful gift. I join you in praying that it ends up going to the boy who would be filled with joy opening his treasures!

I love this box and the way you went into detail explaining why and how you packed everything in there! I really admire the level of dedication you put into getting that 3D wooden dinosaur puzzle in the box 👏❤👏 I wonder if you wouldn’t mind sharing your opinion on which 1 or 2 tools would you recommend if a box can’t fit a whole tool kit like you send?

I think it is good that yo sharpen them but it is not really that hard to shapen a pencil with a knife, I have done it tons of times because I always lose pencil sharpeners...

What a great box to bless a 10-14 year old boy:) Please don’t forget to include a pencil sharpener for the pencils:) Blessings on packing/filler for OCC🌹😇👷🏻‍♂️🤗🎄🎁🗺️

Growing up as a PK, people would donate a lot of stuff to the church to be distributed to the poor (us included). My siblings and I called some of these donations “Junk for Jesus”. So people: NO JUNK FOR JESUS! This is a guiding principle for me as an adult, whether acts of service at church, or stuff for the shoebox.

My friend and I use the plastic bin with a high lid. Unfortunately it's very difficult to fit a set of school supplies plus things kids need in the small shoe box. Older boys, especially, are hard to pack for in the small box because their wants and needs are a bit more mature than the little kids.

Very nice! I think I need to go to Harbor Freight! 😊

This was so great. As a guy you have a perspective and a joy for the items in your box that most of us don’t have so much. Great information.

Yes Roger. I love your unboxing and how you support your lovely wife. X

because of you and your wife our church has done 54 boxes this year for the very first time.....thank you god bless you both

I love this box! It’s very nicely put together with both practical as well as fun items! ❤👏❤️👏❤️👏❤️👏

I really appreciate watching your videos each year!

My daughter and I do 2 shoe boxes every year, it costs me a lot of money but I never scrimp on any gift we put in. For some children it’s the only gift they get. I can’t believe that people put rubbish or unsafe items in them. We take a lot of pride in doing these boxes and they are filled with not only thoughtful gifts but lots of love to.

Fun box!!

Awesome box!

Great box😊

Very Helpful. Thanks. I am getting my SCOUTS ready to participate.