The Honor Society at Bountiful Jr. High School is looking for ways to help and give back this holiday season. So, for their November activity, they worked on a service project for a local hospital and their classmates. 

Each student in the Honor Society helped to make blankets, decorate stockings to give to students in need and make gifts for seventh graders. These gifts are to encourage the younger students to get involved and participate next year in the Honor Society. The Honor Society officers will go into seventh grade advisory classes next week to hand out these candy bar gifts.

“The blankets are to give to the kids as a get-well-soon gift as they are leaving the hospital,” said Miles McBean, a ninth grade officer in the BJH Honor Society.

The student members of the society made 20 blankets, 50 stockings and more than 200 candy bar gifts. Kimberly Madsen, a counselor at Bountiful Jr. High, said that 80 of the 118 members participated in the after-school activity. They also decorated sugar cookies as a treat for members who showed up for the activity. “A lot of kids came up after the activity and said that they had a lot of fun with it,” said Madsen.

“We always have a bunch of fun while serving others,” said Beckam Adamson, a ninth grade Honor Society officer.

The blankets will be given to Lakeview Hospital in Bountiful sometime this week. There are many different patterns children can choose from, including Spider-Man, tie-dyed and elephants. “There will be something for everyone,” said Madsen.

“The hospital is in good proximity, and it is serving people in our community,” said McBean.

During each after-school activity, the Honor Society also collects cans of food and shoes (both new and used) that will be donated to Soles4Souls. Madsen explained that the food is donated to the Bountiful Food Pantry.

“We have a competition going between the eighth graders and ninth graders to see who can bring in the most donations,” said McBean. “We will come up with an incentive for the winners.”

The December activity for the Honor Society will be wrapping all the gifts donated for the Sub for Santa program. Members of the community have been encouraged for the past month to visit the junior high school’s website to donate items from an Amazon Wish list.

Adamson said that the idea for the blankets came from a discussion about how the Honor Society could serve its community.

“For the activity, the officers set up different stations to organize the projects and keep the students involved,” said Madsen.

“We go through everything we had set up,” said McBean.