Welcome to a special mid-week post for Mail It Monday. Valentine's Day is quickly approaching. I remember, with a lot of fondness, getting Valentine's from classmates through the years. It was a wonderful tradition that made a fun day as a child. Unfortunately, many children do not get to experience this tradition, or miss out on the day this year because they are currently under care at a Children's Hospital. Many of these hospitals around the country have a place where you can send a card to a child. This is done differently than a standard card drive. These children are very ill and cannot be exposed to outside germs or toxins or anything environmental. Because of these factors, the hospitals have set up a way for you to send a card digitally. The child will receive an actual card, but it will be under their strict care guidelines. I have found a list of several hospitals participating in this sweet and thoughtful idea and am sharing it with you today. I love how this works with our send love, send cards motto!
Cincinnati Children's
Choose a design and they will print and deliver the card. They are so busy, that their system is slow in responding with a confirmation. How wonderful!
Children's Hospital Colorado
They will print the card for FREE and deliver it to a child.
Children's Hospital Los Angeles
Same idea from this hospital, but Party City has come along side them and will be donating $1 to the hospital for each card sent! Again, FREE.
Children's National in Washington, D.C.
Choose from 3 adorable designs. Once again, they will take care of printing and delivering for FREE!
Boston Children's Hospital Trust
More Valentine's. These will be posted in the hospital for all the patients to see. FREE.
St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital
These Valentine's were inspired by patient art and you can also write your own message. FREE but they encourage a donation to the hospital.
Children's Health of Dallas
Suuuper cute farm-themed Valentine's. FREE.
Phoenix Children's
Space themed Valentine's, again printed and delivered for FREE.
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Arkansas Children's Hospital
This hospital will accept art supply donations this Valentine's Day. They must be brand new and in their original packaging. Visit the link for more details.
I hope you are as excited about this opportunities as I am! What a wonderful thing to be able to participate in-even your children or grandchildren can be involved! Don't forget to join us @MailItMonday on Instagram. We would love to see you in our card-mailing community as we grow each and every week!
Sincerely Yours,
2 comments:
What a great method to send cards to children with these special needs. Thanks for sharing.
It looks like the Colorado one requires a patient name. I tried without inputting one but it wouldn't let me preview it.
I sent some to the LA hospital first, since they get donations (yay Party City!)
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