“You’ll be my Sunday Special, and I hope I’ll be yours too.”

This line accompanied a drawing of a dog with a little crown on its head and the bright sun shining behind it. There are guidelines in the space provided for the words and the pictures have pattern marks from crayons of different colors.

At first glance, one would think that this is a paper version of a show-and-tell where kids talk about their pets. You’d be wrong, though, because these adorable illustrations are adoption advertisements.

Forty-two second-graders at the St’ Michael’s Episcopal School are behind the project.

The school, based in Richmond, Virginia, wanted to help a local shelter to have their dogs adopted.

Instead of taking pictures, the kids gathered all their art materials to give 24 dogs and one cat the chance for a forever home.

The posters made adorable “compelling points” for each adoptee.

“Hi, my name is Sleigh Ride! Do you want to adopt me? You can train me if you want! Can you put a heart on my collar? I am a girl. Who are you?” said one of the posters. It was made by Winnie Rice.

“Hello, my name is Sunday Special. I would love to be adopted. If you do adopt me, I hope I will brighten up your Sundays like the SUN! You’ll be my Sunday Special, and I hope I’ll be yours!” said Aubrey Consolve’s work.

Their teacher, Kensey Jones, came up with the idea.

Jones has been teaching second graders for the past eight years and has been volunteering her weekends at the Richmond Animal Care and Control or the RACC.

She shared that she wanted the kids to relate their lesson on “persuasive writing” to something real in their community.

“She emailed me back in January, and was like, ‘You can say no, but what do you think about this idea of having the kids write persuasive writing, like from the perspective of one of the shelter dogs?’ and I thought it was an amazing idea,” Christie Chipps Peters, the director of RACC said to Good Morning America.

It was a boost that the shelter needed.

RACC shared with Good Morning America that they are the only open-admission shelter in Richmond. This means they take in any animal regardless of condition.

This means even older animals or those with disabilities are welcome. And the reality is, that it can be difficult to place these animals in forever homes.

But with the posters, members of the community stopped by and adopted those they can. In a separate Facebook post, the organization proudly shared the effect of the posters saying, “Great adoption weekend! Must have been those cute stories from St. Michael’s Episcopal School helping to attract adopters!”

Peters said that the children’s honesty played a big role.

Children write the best anyway because they have no filter and they’re honest and kind and it just comes from such a sweet spot. They haven’t yet been jaded.” She said to Good Morning America. “Reading their stories and looking at that sweet dog in the cage, I think just speaks volumes to moving on the emotional side of things.”

When asked if she will collaborate with the students again, she commented that they will “do it again in a heartbeat”.

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Source: Good Morning America, Facebook – Richmond Animal Care and Control