Warming Families: Help Keep a Family Cozy This Winter!
There's nothing harder than seeing your children homeless, but Warming Families is there to provide blankets for those in need.
Warming Families is one part of a larger charity called One Heart Foundation. Their goal is to strengthen and help families in need through everyone's favorite activity: knitting! Warming Families does so much more than just hand out blankets. It gives hope to families in need and provides fun, educational projects for knitters and their families!
Strengthening Families
Sometimes it's not so much the blanket that makes you smile, as it is the thought that someone made it just for you. Families who receive donations from Warming Families know someone is thinking of them -- even if it's someone they've never met!
Warming Families isn't just about providing for families in need, though. Their goal is to strengthen all families, and with that in mind they've dedicated a huge section of their website to ways to involve your entire family. Warming Families offers great ideas for involving your children and spouse (even the non-knitters) in helping others.
They don't stop there, either -- there's even a section on involving your child's classroom! With Warming Families, helping others could easily become a lifetime hobby!
Guiding Hands
Sure, Warming Families aims to provide those in need with cozy, warm blankets. But they don't stop there! The Warming Families website literally has hundreds of ideas for crafting toys, clothing, and other items for donation. The "bears and dolls" section of their patterns provides unique and exciting ideas for sewing, crocheting, and knitting cuddly, one-of-a-kind toys. Just one look and you'll itch to try them out!
Warming Families provides patterns for hand towels, bibs, headbands, and even a newborn-sized poncho! You could spend hours exploring the site just for new things to make and craft.
Getting Going
The Warming Families website provides a detailed list of area volunteers and shelters across the United States and Canada. It explains exactly what each shelter requires, so before you start knitting, you might want to check their needs.
Of course, Warming Families isn't worried about how you donate, only that you do. With that in mind, their site also features a detailed index of homeless shelters and other organizations that will happily accept your projects. With Warming Families, there are no limits to what your creativity can accomplish!
