Some Art for Soldiers

This is a butterfly Josie made for our soldier in Afganistan. She made it so he can hang it from the ceiling. He's a paratrooper, and we're calling him Paratrooper Neil so we can remember him. I told the kids that he jumps out of planes. He sent us a letter and told us he would send along a photo of the guys in his unit.


Were going to send this one to Paratrooper Neil as well. It's a little poem from Jake. We are getting excited about spring coming and thought they would like to see a little spring too. There's a bird in that knothole in the tree.

Here's a tree for you from Tennessee,

Here's a bird to you from me.

This card is from Jake to Sgt. Tina. She took a lot of time to tell us about where she is and what she does. We took a lot of time to make this card for her. It was a collaboration between Jake and me. He needs a lot of extra help and attention when it comes to crafts. He wanted to be sure that Sgt. Tina knew he cared after I explained to them how important our letters are and told them about "morale", and what it means to have high morale. He made the purple rose, and all the little leaves. He put the wings on the bee, and drew the ladybug. He made sure that the green field had blades of grass and he put one of the flowers in there. I did all of the cutting and glue-ing.


This is my favorite. I love Josie's little pop-up cards. We're going to send this one to Sgt. Tina. There's a beehive, two trees and a skunk. Josie likes skunks and feels sorry for them because she thinks other people don't like them very much. She also thought Sgt. Tina would like to see some water. Tina wrote us and told us that the Iraqis think that birds bring good fortune, so she included lots of birds.

Tonight I'll go out and get the proper sized envelopes. Tomorrow we'll make cards for some "any soldiers" and send them along to the same locations.

I love doing this.

Anybody else out there who wants to send letters and supplies, here's the link to anysoldier.com.