We’ve reached the penultimate day in our month-long countdown to Halloween! That meant it was time to teach the kids about giving back this year, not just taking all the treats for themselves.

This is a project we actually started two weeks ago. Since Travis loves animals, we decided to host a cat food donation drive (get it, for black cats in honor of Halloween?), but truly you can pick any charity or cause and start collecting donations toward it.

We printed up a flyer and distributed it in Travis’s grade at school.

Within one day, the donations started pouring in. His teacher even made a donation bin decorated to look like a black cat!

We were overwhelmed by his schoolmates’ generosity. In ten days, Travis collected 172 cans of cat food (plus one huge jar of treats!).

Now all we needed to do was deliver. We bagged the cat food (while listening to our favorite spooky tunes of course), turning it into a whole family affair.

The next afternoon, we drove over to make the delivery. The sign on each bag read Happy Halloween to the cats!

This activity was so purr-fectly rewarding that we might just make it an annual event.

Which organization would you reverse trick-or-treat? Please share in the comments!