Parent and Teachers Working Together to Feed Kids: Tools and Templates

Parent and Teachers Working Together to Feed Kids: Tools and Templates

Thank you for volunteering with Blessings in a Backpack!

A Blessings team member will contact you soon to connect you with a local program. Until then, here are some tools and templates to help you prepare for a food drive and/or create encouraging note cards for the kids.

Tools and Templates

Hosting a Food Drive

Food Drive Flyer

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List Of Approved Food Items

Approved Food Items for NDClick here to download a PDF of our approved and not approved food items.

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Tools and Templates

Love is a Verb Activity

Download and Print a One-Page Overview

Join the movement to end childhood hunger. Let's feed hearts and bellies together!

Your class will cultivate an understanding of childhood hunger, develop empathy, and take action. Working together, students will:

  • Raise money to provide food on the weekends for children in your community struggling with food insecurity.
  • Donate cards to a local Blessings in a Backpack program. We will include the cards in the food bags that children receive on Fridays.

Inspiration:
By hosting a “Love is a Verb” activity, students will learn to be compassionate, help others, and spread kindness. You, as an educator, will raise awareness about poverty and childhood hunger. You will be making a positive impact not only in the lives of food-insecure children in your community but the children in your classroom.

Maddi's Fridge Piggy Bank

Maddi's Fridge Piggy Bank

Click here to request a Maddi’s Fridge Piggy Bank.

Click here to watch Blessings supporters/celebrities read Maddi’s Fridge.

Maddis Fridge bank

You’ll get the refrigerator-shaped piggy bank, fridge, and alphabet stickers to decorate your piggy bank! 

Maddis Fridge bank

Decorate your piggy bank, and collect money to help Blessings in a Backpack feed kids on the weekends! 

Tools and Templates

Social Media

Tell Your Friends, Family, And Followers How You Are Supporting The Blessings In A Backpack Mission And Feeding Kids This Weekend.

Post pictures, videos, and any updates about your service activity, whether it’s hosting a food drive, starting a program, or decorating a Maddi’s Fridge. Share how they can support the cause.

Sample social media posts:

  • I’m collecting food for [city’s] local #BlessingsinaBackpack program. Our goal is to collect enough food to feed XXX children this weekend!
  • The [school/students/friends] in [city] are feeding hungry kids this weekend with #BlessingsinaBackpack!
  • Who will feed the kids this weekend? I will! As a [alum/student/friend], I’m volunteering with our local #BlessingsinaBackpack program, which provides hunger-free weekends for kids who might otherwise go hungry.
  • A little can go a long way when we get together and give back. This year, [I or our club/group] am/is supporting #BlessingsinBackpack to feed school-aged children who might otherwise go hungry.

Use the #PTOSummit and #BlessingsinaBackpack hashtags when you post and other hashtags relevant to your club or community. 3-5 hashtags per post are the sweet spot.

Other hashtag ideas: #RockSolidPTOSummit #Blessingsina🎒

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