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MaryAnne from Mama Smiles will celebrate 30 years in May since she was diagnosed with pediatric cancer at 22 months of age. In honor of the occasion, MaryAnne has put together a Small Hands Creating Hope book as a fundraiser for the American Cancer Society.  The eBook and paper book have activities from 30+ kid bloggers, including me, full of ideas for children to make their own butterfly pictures and projects and give them to people suffering from cancer.

As a teacher, many times the classroom was affected by people we knew who developed cancer, including students. What to do? How to help? What could children do, anyway?  This book has many wonderful ideas of things children can make, which would be too hard to think up when the illness strikes.

*Note:  the ebook and Amazon paper copy are the same book.

The theme of the book is butterflies, with the colors yellow for hope and purple for cancer survivorship. The book has many inspirational stories.  Here’s the link to MaryAnne’s post today: Small Hands Creating Hope.

First, anyone who donates at least $15 will receive links to download both the ebook and to purchase a paper copy of the book at production cost. This is being done through the American Cancer Society’s donation center.  It was so exciting for me to donate and then also order my first copy of the book through Amazon.  You do NOT have to order from Amazon if you only want the ebook, which comes with any $15 order.

Secondly, if you donate but do not receive the email for any reason, or if you have trouble with the download, you can email smallhandsproject at gmail dot com.  MaryAnne (MamaSmiles) will be happy to help!

Free Counting Book Printable

Deb Chitwood from Living Montessori Now has already published her post about the Small Hands Creating Hope project, and has a free printable PDF counting book on her blog post. She also has a Word Doc version so teachers and parents can edit the book to fit their own classes and children.

I will be writing another post for my part of the larger effort for this project on June 15th.  I have a button on my sidebar for anyone inspired to donate and receive a copy of this book by email and through Amazon.  The picture of my contribution to the project is below.  Click here for a free sample page:  Sample Page for the Small Hands Creating Hope American Cancer Society Fundraiser

Thanks for reading, Carolyn

Ms. Tonya at Strings, Keys, and Melodies has such a great blog post about nursery rhymes that I was inspired to make a free PDF.  Please visit her blog for a wonderful post about nursery rhymes!  My guest post with this freebie is now on the Pre K and K Sharing blog!

Visit my blog post to get the free PDF:

Thanks for reading, Carolyn

It is nice when there is time to make something for dad before the end of the school year, so I’m posting this in case teachers have time!

Father’s Day freebie from Wise Owl Factory PDF