Once a month, the 11 members of the Boulder Kids Care Club who are mostly from Foothills Elementary School, in Boulder, Colorado, gather together to help their community.

Recently, the 3rd graders of set up a small lemonade stand, a toy cash register and a batch of warm cookies at North Boulder Park to raise money to help the Humane Society of Boulder Valley. "I just feel good to help everything," said 8-year-old Daisy Booker, who was yelling at cars to get them to stop and buy lemonade and cookies.

Daisy's mother, Ricki Booker said that she and Mara Fleishman started the Boulder chapter of the national Kids Care Clubs in February. They were looking to start a volunteer organization to help kids give back on a regular basis.

"We started it here in Boulder because we really felt like we wanted our kids to be involved in giving back to the community," Booker said. "So, we kept trying to get our friends together to volunteer and it kept falling through. So, finally we took the bull by the horns."

The group's first project was in February. The kids made 85 Valentine's Day Cards and sent them to the Boulder Shelter for the Homeless. Next month, they plan on doing a recycling project. Fleishman said Kids Care Clubs helps kids understand the importance of giving back. "We wanted to do things that help kids understand what volunteering means," she said.

Wendy Dray, the education coordinator at the Humane Society, stopped by the lemonade stand on Friday. She said the group came by earlier in March to see what needed to be done to help. "It's really moving," Dray said. "These guys really do their homework too. They called us before and told us what they were thinking about doing and asked the best ways they can help." Dray also said, it was a great experience for the kids to learn how to help out and give back to the community. "It's a great confidence booster for the kids to get out there and get involved and do things," she said. "It gets them used to interacting with people. And, then any time they are doing something good for people, they are boosting their self-esteem, too."