Girls Give Dolls

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(Locator: Marion, Kansas)

Girls work on dolls: “The red would match his hair.”

Eight-year-old Courtney Williams and her 11-year-old sister Becca are spending a weekend helping others.

Girls work: “You want to use like this one? Or this?”

With their grandmother, they’re making doll baskets for kids whose families can’t afford them.

Becca Williams: “I just want them to have some stuff, too.”

Courtney works: “Grandma, I want this. Can you cut this in half? Oh wait, never mind.”

The sisters were inspired after hearing about a little girl who found a doll in a thrift store.

Wanda Williams/Grandmother: “The doll was just a cloth body and had no clothes whatsoever. There was a little five-year-old girl there with her mother. They had come to get some things. And she saw that and said, ‘Oh, Mother, can I have this?’”

So Courtney, Becca, and Grandma went to work. They’ve made 50 baskets so far.
Friends at Aulne United Methodist Church in Marion, Kansas have donated used dolls and clothing to make many more.

Courtney Williams: “First, we get a basket and we try to match the doll to it. And we usually put a change of clothes with them and like a stuffed animal or toy.”

Becca Williams: “I try to match the clothes. That’s how I would want my dolls so I want other kids to like them too.”

Becca and Courtney put a lot of love into each doll basket and during the process get to spend time with Grandma.

Wanda Williams/Grandmother: “I hope it’s something they’ll remember and pass on to their families. It might not be making dolls, but any other opportunities that come along where they can help someone.”

Girls work: “Grandma, this one fits better. Yeah… perfect, perfect, perfect.”

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Becca and Courtney also make special doll baskets for the local Chamber of Commerce to give as Christmas gifts for needy children.

For more information on the doll basket program, contact the Aulne United Methodist church in Marion, Kansas at 620-382-3749.