Packing Shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child

It's time for one of our favorite November traditions that we've been doing every year for probably the last four or five years. Operation Christmas Child What is Operation Christmas Road Dad? um it's when, um, you get a bunch of things that um tissa don't I really don't have as many toys as you or maybe you don't have toys, you put them in the box and they give them to them, so I have five boxes. I thought we could each pack two and then I would pack one. Basically, for Colin, the first thing we need to do is figure out who you're

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for.

We can choose well, you can choose if you want a girl or a boy and you can choose the age range so you can choose to pack for two. to four years old, to a five to nine year old or to a 10 to 14 year old, okay, so what are you thinking about what age range? boy a girl from five to nine because she is closer to my age and I know the taste of my age then they will like to know the taste of my age too well think what about you maya what age girl or boy , girl and boy, a girl and a boy, okay, what age, two to four, so how about you do two to four for a boy and For the girl, you want to do five tonight, since you have your old, so I brought some boxes from the basement with some of our toys.

Now the first thing we want us to do is pick one that looks like an amazing item, so it's like the big one. item that kids will be most excited about, so I put some amazing items here that maybe we can choose from this one. I'll probably choose a sunny day, so it will be for your five to nine year old girl, yeah, perfect, what do you do? do you think addie because i really like it you like live pets you know what maybe it's a sunny day for my five to nine year old girl what do you turn into i would be i wouldn't really love them so these nerdy flavored lip glosses These could be even the following ones try them because you might be able to fit this in addition to your larger items so why don't you do this and your mermaid?

Since the mermaid doesn't fit here, what do we have to do? We need to unpack all the toys so we can put more things in them. I'm told you can unpack things to fit more in there, but they have to be new things that we can unpack and move on to the new thing we're putting in. there, yeah, you open this, you know what probably fits them without un

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it? Why don't you try sitting there? Yeah, and on a sunny day, I'm definitely going to have to unbox it because it's not going to stay there. Think about things like hatchimals, girls, a lot of times these toys go into the hands of people who aren't in the United States, maybe they don't speak English. and they won't know what a hatchimal is and if they can't read english.

Maybe they don't know how to make a hole to open it, so we have to think about things like that too. They may target people who have never seen these toys before. You do not get it. It has to be something that can attract. for anyone this code because I mean the key can fit in this keyhole and it sounds good I think it would work and even things like our sunny day doll or for example if we made a palm you know we might not know which one is the show a sunny day, but it's okay because it's still like a fun doll that you could have fun with and you can style the hair, so I think it's okay, I think all dolls are fun, here's a mermaid that will put this.

The accessories are fine, I think I missed the balls. We have four boxes for girls ages five to nine and one box for boys ages two to four, which will be the one you're making. Okay, we have all our awesome items ready. and now, girls, we can fill them with our extras, we can fill them with as many as little toys and little gadgets, school supplies, anything fun that we want too. This thing is for sure. I'm putting a squishy one in that pretty much all the girls love and a surprise for the 5 girls, we could probably unpack them so they take up less space.

Star Wars, I don't think we can put it in, do you know why? So if you look at Star Wars, what is it about some of them? their hands, do you think they think about guns, guns and guns? And even though it's just pretending, one of the things they say on their website, girls, is that you can't send any toys that they have, like a war reference or a weapon reference, weapon reference, you know? Because? Because some of these

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ren live in countries where there are wars and there are wars going on, so this is a really sad reality and we are very lucky to not have that, but we have to worry about where.

We live, but some kids do, so we're not going to put up anything that might remind them of the war. No, this is my daughter. So should she name the girl or the boy? You can put it on whoever you believe. I would like that because with tangles no one has to listen to instructions it's just a fun free toy. I'm trying to find some things for the 2-4 year old. This large, anti-stress cube might work. Let's put that. In there, Addy, and then what's up with this monster like, oh yeah, what's up? Oh gosh, the Pokémon says it's six or older, so you probably can't put that in the two to four box, we don't want a little kid to drown. in Legos, no, no, no, so we have this big box of Enchantimals that we can put some of them in.

Yes, that's what I was thinking about donating this. Yes. Why don't the enchanted moles open? We will separate them and We can divide them between the boxes. I think our boy box is getting pretty full. We might have to rearrange it a little so we can unpack. Put all this here. Okay, this one needs a lot more, so I'll find some things for this. five to nine year old girl, oh good idea, we have some tic tac toy wristbands that we are going to glue inside the boxes too. There's a good chance the kids will have no idea what the tic tac toy is, who will get it, but still a cute little bracelet they'd like to wear, so we'll throw them away anyway.

I finished one you finished yours yeah cool let me see what you got inside that one is for your girl yeah this one is really hard to close oh and really hard to open so we have a barbie doll that's fun and squishy, ​​oh you got your mermaid tangled, enchantimals, your lip gloss, this looks like a good package, maya, good job for mine, I have a squishy tangle, a high five, one of these fidget cubes and some bracelets and this bird , my is your other, made the other for a

child

, right? Let me see what you have, Thomas train this one because he could have a whole set in the room, um, this creepy monster, oh, it's Shopkins, there could be two bracelets, this is the little friend, um, this is fidget cubes and the doll of snow, that's great, I bet they'll love that maya.

Good job done, well I think my box is done too so something else says you would like it. us to put our personal notes, so would you like to make some nice notes to send to the kids, yeah, or even a picture that you could draw for them? You wouldn't do that okay let's deal with our notes and it says you can't even send a photo so you can find a family photo and there's even a chance to send them our address and maybe they can respond to us that would be great I don't know if it will be So. pass, but it could be cool, could you do that?

Yes, okay, what should I write? Okay, while you guys write your letters, I'll go online and print out our shipping labels so we can track where our package is going. We can track it. Yes. We can see exactly which country it ends up in, maybe even in the city, I'm not sure, that's pretty cool, isn't it? What are you writing in your letter? Addie, I said hi, my name is Addie, my favorite color is pink. eight years old you want to be my friend and then I put my address and then I wrote you want to respond to me but you don't have to have fun with toys your friends I love girly so now one more letter for your second box so if you had to guess what country you think our boxes are going to go to new york the country of new york what do you think abby um maybe Africa Africa the scam that is a continent so when I asked what Country I could see New York on the African continent and the video we saw in the church, I think it was the country Colombia which is south of us, yeah, oh, we'll definitely have to track ours that way, you can see exactly where it ends. top tags thank you, I drew a rose because I like it and your middle name is rose, yes what are you drawing Maya, can I see it?

Oh, they're going to love that girl now I just need you to fill out your tag and we're on. They're going to keep them in the box. They know who the super duper is. Okay, what do you think? Oh you can't stand that, that's not for you, good job girls, I think the kids are going to love these, you think so too, yeah, do you? Do this again next year, yes, I think we do too. Stack them up and we'll take it to the delivery location.