Kids Donate Birthday Presents To Help Animals
Families celebrate birthdays in many varied ways. Some have large parties and invite everyone they know. Some have small, intimate get-togethers with close friends and family. Kids seem to have the most elaborate and action packed birthdays. We all know the scene: twenty 11 year-olds running around the backyard, house, or some poor pizza place, chaotic and full of life.
One theme that has become common in recent birthday parties, especially those for young children, is the picture of a mountain of gifts.
Osawatomie sixth graders Dylan Page and Lexi Wingerter do not represent this theme.
The two cousins recently turned 11 one day apart (Lexi on 8-29 and Dylan on 8-30) , and decided to share their birthday party. Last Saturday, August 28, Dylan. Lexi, and a group of their friends and family descended on Dylan’s home. They ate hot dogs and chips, played football and then watched Alice in Wonderland on an outdoor screen.
But the difference in this year’s party was that there were no presents.
Dylan and Lexi asked their friends and family to forgo buying them anything. Both children are animal lovers, and wanted this year’s birthday to be special. To make it special, they decided to ask that guests bring donations and money for supplies to be given to Animal Haven, a no-kill animal shelter in Merriam, Ks.
The idea came about after Dylan’s parents, Sheri and Johnny Page, took Dylan to Animal Haven a few weeks back.
Dylan told his parents, while looking at all of the animals in need of a good home, “I really want to help Animal Haven. Every animal deserves a chance to have a home and they try to help find one.”
Dylan, Lexi, and guests at the party raised approximately $150 worth of supplies, and plan to spend any further birthday money received on additional supplies. “We think it’ll be around $200 in supplies when everything is finished,” said Sheri Page.
$200 could buy a lot of video games, but video games don’t last. The memories that Dylan and Lexi created from this selfless birthday will last, however, and may even set a new trend in birthday celebrations.
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Posted by Jeremy
on Sep 1 2010. Filed under News and Updates, Photo Galleries.
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