Engage Your Children in Showing Love - Give Bunnies!

Today is February 1st - the first day in the month of the year when we think about "love". It is the perfect month to involve the children in your ministry in a project to show their love for others . . . by raising money to give bunnies to families in need around the world!

Bunnies, you ask? Yes! Bunnies! For just $20 you can give a pair of bunnies to a family in need. This pair of bunnies very quickly becomes more bunnies . . . and can not only be used to provide much needed nutrition, but can be sold and traded for things families need as well.

And since a pair of bunnies is only $20 through WorldHelp, it makes bunnies a very affordable project . . . children can work to see how many pairs of bunnies they can earn! And, it is so easy to make this a fun project! Consider the following . . . 

• Make paper hearts with two bunnies in the middle and post around your church for each pair of bunnies children earn. It will be fun to see how many hearts/bunnies children can post during the month of February and give the church a way to see how the children are doing!
• Make Bunny magnets which children can sell to raise money for bunnies.
• Make Bunny cookies which children can sell to raise money for bunnies (sugar cookies cut into bunny shapes).
• Make Bunny cakes which children can sell to raise money for bunnies - either cut a round cake in half and place the sides together to make a bunny, or use one round cake and cut the other to make ears and a bow and decorate.
• Make pictures of Bunnies which children can sell to raise money for bunnies!
• Have a bunny petting zoo - if you know someone who owns bunnies - and charge a small amount for admittance and then donate the money to buy bunnies!

These are just a few ideas - have the children in your ministry think of more! The point is, at just $20 for a pair of bunnies, if the children in your ministry work all month, they will be able to raise money to buy bunnies and then will be able to help families through WorldHelp's gift catalog. (You'll find all the info at this link.)

So . . . what might you do to help the children in your ministry show love to families in need around the world during the month of February?