Creating Easter Baskets for children in need
Easter is late on the calendar this spring, but Scheels is getting an early jump on its annual Easter Basket Drive.
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'Customers can come in, fill a tote here right at Scheels or take it out to the community and fill it there and then bring it back to us at Customer Service by the tenth,' Events Coordinator Cierra Von Bergen said.
Von Bergen is asking the public to create Easter Baskets to be given to the kids at Children's Home Society.
'Waking up with an Easter Basket growing up was always so fun, so we wanted to bring that joy to these kids that morning,' Von Bergen said.
'These kids have the same reaction, just pure joy,' CHS Chief Philanthropy Officer Jon Mammenga said.
'At Children's Home, we're very focused on hope and healing and really I think if you can normalize things each and every day, you think about your own kids waking up, finding their Easter Baskets, we want to give that experience to kids at Children's Home as well,' Mammenga said.
Scheels will host a party, complete with games and crafts, at Children's Home Society on Sunday the 13th, while the actual baskets will be handed out the following weekend.
'Obviously chocolate, candy, those are the things that they're looking for, little toys in there, things that just bring them joy I think is what we're looking for more than anything,' Mammenga said.
They only ask you to limit your purchases to $25 to keep it fair for the kids.
'Toy cars, Barbies, some NeeDoh, or the slime, kids love to play with, chalk, coloring books and crayons, all those fun things,' Von Bergen said.
Making Easter for the kids exactly that, fun.
You can start filling Easter Baskets on Wednesday, and they must be returned to Scheels by Thursday, April 10.
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