A child suffering from cancer is one of the most harrowing things a child and his/her family may go through. Fighting cancer can be very tough and going through chemotherapy can be very painful.
Losing hair can be especially tough for a kid fighting cancer. The shock of having your hair come out leaving you bald and the sensitive scalp it leaves behind can be completely devastating for the child. Chemo treatments often leave patients’ bare scalps too sensitive for traditional wigs.
That’s where The Magic Yarn Project — a volunteer effort based in Palmer, Alaska, that makes gorgeous, soft wigs modeled after the lovely locks of kids’ favorite Disney Princesses — comes in. To create head coverings that are warm, comfortable, and giggle-inducing, Magic Yarn volunteers crochet extra-soft “baby” yarn into beanies, and then transform them into storybook hairstyles.
The genius project was initiated by an oncology nurse and mother, Holly Christensen, who holds workshops along with her friend Bree Hitchcock to teach others how to crochet soft baby yarn beanies and whimsical wigs so that they can get them out to as many kids fighting cancer as possible. Through their GoFundMe effort, which is rapidly nearing its goal, and through The Magic Yarn Project’s Facebook page, the pair, who rely entirely on donations and volunteers, are hoping to get the word out to as many people as possible.
Take a look at some of the wigs that have come out of the pair’s all-volunteer effort to get wigs to kids totally free of charge:
In servitude, Holly & Bree
facebook.com/magicyarnwigs & themagicyarnproject.com
Image: The Magic Yarn Project
Image: The Magic Yarn Project
