Cricut Crafts with Blessings in a Backpack for Children in Need

Before the year ended, Cricut partnered with Blessings in a Backpack to personalize bags for 62 students in need. Avid Cricut user and local Blessings in a Backpack coordinator, Sara Phillips, fills bags full of food supplies each weekend to feed children from Carnahan Elementary in San Antonio, Texas who would otherwise go hungry.

Phillips recruited volunteers beforehand to design and make the personalized bags with Cricut machines and materials in an event held at Carnahan Elementary.

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The event brought out the community volunteers, including student-athletes from nearby Brandeis High School, and the local school district station to decorate and stuff bags for the holiday break – a 16-day supply of food!

About Blessings in a Backpack:

Hunger has both short- and long-term negative effects on children’s health and ability to succeed in school. Blessings in a Backpack mobilizes communities, individuals, and resources to provide food on the weekends for elementary school children across America who might otherwise go hungry. Blessings in a Backpack provided 3 million hunger-free weekends for more than 83,000 kids in 45 states and Washington D.C. For more information, visit blessingsinabackpack.org.