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"I hope I can give it to someone to make them happy!"

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"...writing happy letters and sending them to children in the homeless shelter..."

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Cavanaugh opened the Love is Greater than Covid19 Community Pantry  because his generosity spilled throughout his community and he needed an entire warehouse to store all of the donations!

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"I can donate clothes to the homeless!"

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Twelve year old Jonah Larson, a crochet prodigy, picked up a crochet hook when he was five years old and now has changed the lives of thousands of people!  Jonah began crocheting blankets, scarves, hats, and even dolls and passed them out to the orphans in
Ethiopia at the orphanage where he was adopted. He has written a book and now has an enormous following of crochetiers world-wide! Jonah also collected money to send back home to the orphans to build their own library!

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First Graders learned about incredible Black children who are making an amazing difference, not only in their own communities, but even across the world!

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First Graders learned about incredible Black children who are making an amazing difference, not only in their own communities, but even across the world!

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Jonah Larson developed Jonah's Hands, where every piece of work is touched by his hands!

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A local seven year old Maryland hero, Cavanaugh Bell, decided to help the elderly in senior living facilities and those who could not leave their homes due to Covid19.  

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A local seven year old Maryland hero, Cavanaugh Bell, decided to help the elderly in senior living facilities and those who could not leave their homes due to Covid19.  

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"It was quite a fluke." That's how Jonah Larson, the 12-year-old crochet prodigy whose talents have earned him the notice of celebrities like Drew Barrymore and an Instagram following of over 250,000, describes his introduction to his craft. Ever humble despite his obvious talent, the precocious preteen recalls the beginnings of his hobby like this: "I found a crochet hook in a bag of crafts that my aunt had given to my mom for me and my other two siblings to look through. My mom found me a YouTube tutorial and went around to do some housework. And about an hour later, she came back to me with a perfectly made dish cloth from watching the YouTube tutorial when she was expecting to come back to just a tangled mess of yarn."

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Since then, Larson has gone on to create colorful crochet masterpieces that have taken the internet by storm. He offers tips and tutorials on his website, and has released pattern books to help others pick up the craft.

"It's very therapeutic in a way and it's very calming," Larson says of crochet. "And it's a way to connect with people, which I'm very fond of." Not only have those connections created friends in the crochet community, they've heightened Larson's ability to do another thing he loves: give back.

The preteen, who was adopted from Ethiopia as a baby, has leveraged his Internet fame to raise funds to build a school and science center in his birth country. "I've always been a very avid reader and have loved to read and learn more," Larson tells House Beautiful. "And the kids in Ethiopia, in the area where I was born, there are very poor conditions and they don't have books, or a library, or the chance to really have good education and be successful. And I like to think of it as, if I were still in Ethiopia, they would be my peers. They would have been my classmates. But since I'm in the United States I have all the education, books, microscopes for science, all those things that can help you be successful. And I wanted them to have that same opportunity."

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So, Larson set up a GoFundMe on his website where fans can contribute funds to provide these resources. It was a success: "With the help of all my crochet friends around the world and celebrities like Drew Barrymore and Melissa McCarthy, I've been able to build a complete library that is filled with books, and a complete science lab," says Larson. "Right now I'm just working on filling that science lab with microscopes and all the other tools that they will need in their classroom." (You can donate to the GoFundMe here.)

In the meantime, Larson continues crocheting, designing new patterns that experiment with color and challenge his skills. "I always like to change it up," he says. Over Zoom, where this interview was conducted, he shows off two baby Yodas he made recently for his dad and brother, both Star Wars fans.

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His dream challenge project? A wedding dress. "It would be very special and there are so many different things you can do with thread, so many different stitches, infinite stitches," he says. "You could combine them and totally make it amazing."

Would it take awhile? Absolutely. Would Larson-whose longest project was an afghan featuring no fewer than 800 individual flowers-mind? No. As he says of crochet: "It has taught me persistence, and patience and sticking with something all the way through until it's done so I can have that feeling of accomplishment."

But the best part of his talent, according to Larson? "That it makes others happy," he says. "Because once you finish a piece, you have the sense of accomplishment and the memory of it in knowing that you made it. And then you also have the ability to give it to charity or to give it to someone. And then that can make them happy too. So it's a win-win."

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Meet the 12-Year-Old Crochet Prodigy Who's Caught the Eye of Drew Barrymore and More Celebs

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"It was quite a fluke." That's how Jonah Larson, the 12-year-old crochet prodigy whose talents have earned him the notice of celebrities like Drew Barrymore and an Instagram following of over 250,000, describes his introduction to his craft.