There are many things we do when we are bored and have nothing to do.

Some of us complain to our parents and beg them to entertain us and others lay on the couch and eat anything and everything in the house. Occasionally, someone has some motivation and makes their day productive.

This is exactly what happened to Powell High School junior Hannah Hawley.

“I often have some of my best ideas when I’m bored,” Hawley said. “One day I was bored, I was like, I’m going to learn how to make a sock monkey.”

This all began several weeks ago when Hawley originally planned to create and give the sock monkeys to children in the hospital.

Soon after, she heard of a group creating a bag that would be sent to foster kids; this changed her focus to a different group of children in need.

“A lot of kids don’t have a lot of stuff that they can call their own,” Hawley said. “Having a comfort toy can help them so much during a trial like this.”

It takes her 2-3 hours to create one sock monkey and so far she has eleven in the works.

Hawley has recruited the Young Women in the Powell Third Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints to help assist with creating the sock monkeys.

Hawley is continuously in search for anyone who would like to donate colorful socks or their time to help make them.

Currently, she is doing her research to find where the sock monkeys should be sent in order to get them to the foster homes.

In addition, Hawley is trying to gather donations to finish making the ones that have been started and to begin a new set of sock monkeys.

While this is still a work in progress, Hawley is continuously working to meet the needs of the children in foster homes in small but effective ways.