Help the Animals!

Help Animals at School

Help Animals at Home & In Your Community

Fund-raising Ideas

Check Out What Other Kids are Doing for Animals

Tell Us How You Help Animals

Here are some easy things you can do to help animals:

Help Animals at School

• Educate Your Friends - Did you know that doing your homework can help animals? It's true! Not only can your papers, projects, and reports help you educate yourself, they can educate others too. Whenever you can, do projects on farm animal issues and teach your classmates the importance of compassion! Jump to our Farm Sanctuary Kids' "Learn" section to get started.

• Get Veg Food in Your Cafeteria - Many schools don't offer many food choices for vegetarian or vegan students. But you can change that - at your school at least! If your school cafeteria could use a veggie upgrade, why not read up on the benefits of a plant based diet and then propose some new menu items for your school. Maybe your school could start offering soymilk in addition to cow's milk or veggie burgers as well as hamburgers! The yummy possibilities are endless!

• Help Classroom Animals - Does your teacher keep a rabbit or any other kind of animal in a cage in your classroom? Or is your class planning a chick-hatching project? If so, can you think of any ways that you could help make these animals' lives better? Sadly, many classroom animals are not properly cared for, and they grow sick, lonely, frustrated, and depressed. Sometimes at the end of the school year, these classroom animals have nowhere to go. If this is a problem at your school, ask your teacher politely if you could stop having animals in classrooms. And if that doesn't work, try to find homes for classroom animals before summer rolls around.

• Refuse to Dissect - Some schools still ask their students to dissect animals -including fetal pigs in the name of science. But don't feel silly or embarrassed if you don't want to do this. Lots of kids who love animals don't want to cut them up; they feel sad and sick when they think about it. And kids are right to feel sad about dissection. Many animals that end up in school classrooms to be dissected are raised in terrible conditions and suffer greatly throughout their lives. If your teacher asks you to dissect, tell him or her that you think it is wrong. Then, ask if you could fulfill the requirements of the class by doing an alternative project. For more information, contact us.

Help Animals at Home & In Your Community

• More and more kids are choosing to go vegetarian as a way to help end farm animal suffering. Click here to learn more.

• Make veg meals for your family and show them (if they don't know already) how tasty and healthy a veg diet can be.

• Read the animal rescue stories on this site and share them with your friends and family. Show everyone you know that farm animals are intelligent, sensitive creatures that deserve to be treated kindly.

• Make your voice heard about farm animal issues! One of the best ways to do this is to write letters. You can write letters to your local newspaper, to your school or church, or to businesses in your community and let them know about animal issues that are important to you. The animals can't speak up for themselves - they need YOU!!!

• Come volunteer at Farm Sanctuary in California or New York. Take a trip with your family to one of our farm animal shelters and pitch in with chores. If this sounds like a good time to you, talk to your parents, then email info@farmsanctuarykids.org.

• See if your local library (or the library at your school) has display space available that you could use to create a display about farm animal issues. Displays are fun and easy to make - and Farm Sanctuary can help you do it.

Fund-raising Ideas

Would you give money to help animals if you could? What if raising that money could be fun? Kids all over the country are finding creative, exciting ways to raise money for suffering farm animals. Some hold bake sales, some participate in walkathons, others sell lemonade to neighbors on their block. Here are just a few ideas of how you might raise money for animals:

• Ask your teacher or principal if you could put a Farm Sanctuary donation can out in the cafeteria or school library.
• Get a Farm Sanctuary donation can set up in your local grocery store.
• Hold a vegan bake sale and send the proceeds to your favorite animal organization.
• Put on a magic show for your neighbors and charge a small fee to raise money.
• Ask your relatives to send you money instead of gifts on your birthday or on holidays

Check Out What Other Kids are Doing for Animals

Kids helping farm animals in New Jersey.
Read about some of our Outstanding Animal Friends.
Click here to listen to a radio show run by kids who care about animals -just like you!

We want to know what you're doing to help animals. If you would like to share your accomplishments with us, just send an email to info@farmsanctuarykids.org. Please include your name, where you're from and a brief description of the good things you've done to help animals.