Operation Elf

This Christmas for Primary we launched Operation Elf for our Colfax Ward and especially our Primary. What a touching experience our family had. Our Primary decided to help the Battered Women's and Children's Shelter. They were in need of many items and especially toys for Christmas.

So I called my sister Jessica in Wyoming and she made 60 origami tags to hang on our Primary tree for each Primary child to choose an origami off the tree to take home purchase the item wrap the gift return to primary and then hang their origami ornament on their tree to remember they gave at Christmas time.

After we let the Primary children we opened it to the whole ward. Let me tell you we received packages and packages. We loaded them up in our van and we dropped them off. They were so excited and couldn't believe how many packages we received. What a neat opportunity.

We also let each of our kids go shopping for a child. They picked out a gift and wrapped it all by themselves. We all learned the true meaning of Christmas.

I colored elf tags as well as the origami because we had so many people take the origami we needed more.

Here is our Operation Elf Christmas tree we had at our ward!

Special thanks to my sister who made 60 origami's for our tree and mailed them to me. We will never forget how much each child loved the origami along with all the adults. I even had adults call me for the patterns.

Another picture of our Origami Operation Elf when we first had it in the Primary room for all the children to choose first.