Elementary school students make teddy bears for refugees

Students at Sunnyside Elementary School in Idaho Falls are making a huge donation to refugee children overseas.

The students made more than 600 teddy bears to send to refugees in Uganda, Syria and Jordan. The kids did much of the sewing, stuffing and stitching themselves. The teddy bears began their journey overseas with a police escort from the Idaho Falls Police Department. It’s all part of the “Dolls for Hope” project. Students say they were happy to give back to kids like them.

“It may seem little to us, but the kids who will be getting them, it’ll seem like the biggest thing ever,” said Carter Daw, a sixth grader at Sunnyside Elementary School. “And it’s just, their like one thing they can play with.”

“Today we take most things that we have for granted in a more developed country,” said Stephanie Cobos, also a sixth grader at Sunnyside Elementary School. “We have all this technology and new stuff that we just kind of become lazy and we don’t really realize everything that we have. So I think the really cool thing is that this is kind of an eye opener for most people.”

The students began sewing and stuffing the bears at the end of January.