YOUNGSTERS from Jellybabies Nursery and Pre-School have been putting together festive parcels for children less fortunate as part of a charity campaign.

As well as filling 157 shoeboxes with toys for the Samaritan’s Purse’s Operation Christmas Child – the best ever response – they also watched a DVD about the joy the gifts bring to the recipients.

And, once the boxes were full, the youngsters even helped carry them to the waiting collection cars where Stuart, a representative from the charity, told them about the next leg of the packages’ journey.

Jacqueline Walker, the manager of the nursery and pre-school which is based at Longbridge Methodist Church, said: “This is a lovely way for the children not

only to learn about the wider world and children less fortunate than themselves but to actively be involved helping to make other children happy.”

In the picture: The children from Jellybabies with the boxes and Stuart from the Samaritan’s Purse.