Colouring Corner 12–13 KA! World 14–15 Your Space

Teddy Bears’ Picnic colouring

To mark National Teddy Bear Day (Friday 9 September), we’ve got this tea-rrific picture of teddy bears, down in the woods, enjoying a picnic for you to colour. Email your colourings to: kidsalive@salvationarmy.org.uk – make sure you write ‘Teddy Bears’ Picnic Colouring’ in the subject box and give us your full name, age and address. Alternatively you can post your colourings to: Your Space, Kids Alive! 101 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6BN. One last reminder, if you’re sending by post remember to fill in your details below so we know who you are. We send a gift to everyone whose colouring we publish, so don’t miss out!

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Living a healthy and an active lifestyle and caring for your physical, mental and spiritual well-being.

International Day of Charity

Monday 5 September is International Day of Charity. It’s a United Nations day that highlights the important work that charities do around the world.

Little and Large

Give Back and Get Involved

There are about 170,000 charities operating in the UK. These includes huge organisations, such as Cancer Research UK, the British Heart Foundation and The Salvation Army (who publish Kids Alive!).

Big charities like these are what most people think of when you say the word charity. However, did you know that these big organisations make up just a tiny number of the charities in the UK? Just four per cent of charities, in fact! That means that 96 per cent of charities in the UK are smaller. These smaller charities need just as much, if not more, help from the public to keep helping people.

International Day of Charity is important because it reminds us to give back.

It’s easy to go about our daily lives and forget about people who need more help than others. Charities rely on donations or fundraisers so that they can help people. That doesn’t mean you have to break into your piggy bank and give everything you have (although you can do that if you want).

Ready, Set, Bake!

Charity Challenge

Bake some cakes and sell them to raise money for a charity.

Fun Run

Charity fun runs happen all over the UK. See if there’s one happening near you that you can join. You could also plan your own run and ask people to sponsor you for completing it.

Get Sponsored

As well as running, you could try other sponsored events. A sponsored silence, read, dance, sing and swim are all great ideas.

Give It Up

What’s your favourite food or drink? Could you give them up for a month or more? Your family could donate the money saved to charity or ask people to sponsor you to give up your fave thing. You could even give up your favourite tech, such as your tablet or computer console!

Get Crafty

Do you like making things and being creative? Why not make some paintings or jewellery to sell? Then you can donate the money to your chosen charity.

Some people do incredible challenges for charity. You won’t be able to sign up for anything as extreme as a skydive or mountain trek, but that doesn’t mean you can’t do something. Whether it’s cycling further than you’ve ever done before or facing your fear of heights by abseiling, there’s sure to be something to challenge you.

Group Effort

You can raise even more money (and let everyone know about your favourite charity) by getting a group fundraiser going. Talk to your parents or carers about organising something such as a concert at church, a community car wash, a non-uniform day at school or a fashion show.

The Big Collection

Keep an eye out for people who are raising money for The Salvation Army this month. The Big Collection is a fundraising appeal run by Salvation Army members, friends and volunteers, and it happens every September. Every penny helps people who are vulnerable or in need in the UK. Some Salvation Army members might be collecting money on high streets or in shopping centres, but others may be holding events to raise funds too. You can also ask your parents or carers to donate to the Big Collection online. Visit salvationarmy.org.uk/big-collection for more information.

Cool Colourings

Lauren, age 13, sent us this pink dot-to-dot tractor colouring. Fantastic neat work, Lauren! We love this rainbow tractor coloured by Jessica, age 12. It will certainly brighten up the farmer’s field!

Both Harriet, age 6 (below left), and Alexis, age 12 (below right), chose bright sunshine yellow for Queen Elizabeth’s outfit for their Platinum Jubilee colourings. It’s a good choice as the Queen often wears yellow!

Awesome Oliver!

Oliver, age 9, helped to raise funds for Newcastle City Temple Salvation Army’s new building. He did a five-mile sponsored walk from the centre of Newcastle to Cowgate, where the new hall will be built. Oliver and his mum, Rosey, also organised a stall at his school’s summer fayre. Together they raised a whopping £725, more than £400 over their original target. That’s awesome, Oliver!

Get In Touch!

The Kids Alive! team loves to hear from its readers. And guess what – other readers love reading your news! So why not get in touch? You can email or post your own colourings, drawings and letters. Or you could ask your Sunday school, church or corps leaders to email us or write to us with any news about the fun stuff you’ve been doing at your church or corps. Email: kidsalive@salvationarmy.org.uk Post: Kids Alive! 101 Newington Causeway, London SE1 6BN

Kai

Age? 9. Favourite colour? Purple. Favourite food? Grapes. Favourite sport? Relay races.

Favourite bit of Kids Alive!? Jokes. Favourite Bible story and why?

Noah’s ark, as Noah spends a long time building his ark to save his family and all the beautiful animals. Favourite TV programme? SpongeBob SquarePants.

What do you want to be when you’re older? Join the Navy or Royal Marines. Hobbies? Karate and football. Pets? A guinea pig, Mrs Jackson.

Tell us a joke. Why did the cow cross the road? To get to the udder side!

What special skill or talent do you have? Karate.

Tell us something interesting about yourself. I have two older brothers,

Bradley and Liam. We like to watch football together with our dad. I like fishing.

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