Handmade Gifts from the Heart Donated to Stony Brook Children’s Hospital

Teaching her students the true meaning of giving to others was third grade teacher, Diane D’Allesandro’s, goal this holiday season. In lieu of a class party, her students at Burr Intermediate School in Commack, with the help of their parents and grandparents, created handmade needlepoint bookmarks to donate to Stony Brook Children’s Hospital just in time for the holidays.

Photo and Story by Brenda Lentsch

The students wrapped new books along with their bookmarks and sent special messages to bring joy and the gift of reading to many children, delivered in a beautiful basket of 24 individually wrapped books to cheer their peers who are ill or recovering at Stony Brook.