Students at two schools in the Mansfield ISD combined their efforts in a unique project that will help the Arlington Police Department do something good to comfort kids.
It started with an assignment at Charlotte Anderson Preparatory Academy. The art teacher asked her students to draw pictures of stuffed animals. The Anderson art teacher gave the pictures to her counterpart at Mansfield Summit High School. She then challenged her students to make real stuffed animals based on the drawings.
The high school students created about 60 to 70 of them.
Both schools decided to turn it into a service project and gave all the one-of-a-kind stuffed animals to the Arlington PD's Victim Services Unit.
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"Whenever our Victim Services Unit responds to crime scenes where a child is involved, they'll often bring a stuffed animal to give to that child to comfort them and help them feel safe. We were incredibly touched by their donation. And the stuffed animals are ADORABLE!," wrote Tim Ciesco with the department's media relations team.
