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Playful Pancakes
Toys for Charity
Product #: A-O-CAKE
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Important Notice: As of July 2008 - we are not accepting orders for Playful Pancakes due to an illness in Cassidy's family. Please check back in a few months for availability.
Playful Pancakes are beautiful leather cat toys designed and made by our friend Cassidy Lynn. She came up with this wonderful, creative idea after playing with some leather scraps from our workshop. Please read her story below (in her own words). All sales are donated to Kids For Kids, and are tax deductible. Soft Star donates free Shipping and Handling on this item. (P.S. Even if you don't have a cat, people have been putting the pancakes to good use. We even heard of one serving as the hall pass at a school in Kansas :-) For a recent newspaper article hosted on the local Montessori school website, click here (www.corvallismontessori.org).
My name is Cassidy and I'm 9 years old. I invented these cat toys and I sell them so I can buy goats for the kids in Sudan so that they won't starve. I've been really hungry before, but never as hungry as I think the children in Sudan are.
My cat toys are called Playful Pancakes. My friends and I make them using embroidery floss, leather and sheepskin scraps, and glue. All the faces are different and they each have their own special name. And it takes 45 minutes to make one. In the picture are me (on the left) and my friends Morgan and Meaghan. The hand with the graham cracker in it is my little brother. My friend Aurora helped too but she did it later.
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That is my Grandma and Grandpa's cat playing with his toy. His name is Nacho. Doesn't it look like Nacho is having fun with that? Don't you want your cat to have that much fun? Even though your cat might have toys already, this is a hand made toy.
And if you buy the toy you will be giving a kid in Sudan a better life by giving them a goat because the cat toy costs as much as one goat. I give the money to Kids for Kids and they buy goats so that the kids can have milk and they can trade it for clothes, food, sheep, camels, and medicine. They give goats because money doesn't breed but goats do and make more goats. Even if you don't have a cat you can still help by going to www.justgiving.com/cassidylynn. And if you want to learn more about Kids for Kids you can go to www.kidsforkids.org.uk
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To see a recent newspaper article on Cassidy's effort, click here.
To see Cassidy's Pancake blog - and maybe a picture of your Pancake - click here.
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