BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- Although it's still warm, local students are making sure sick children and adults stay warm this winter.

It's a class project that's going beyond the walls of east high and into the laps and hearts of sick children and their families.

Forty to 50 East Bakersfield High students are sewing, knitting, and crocheting their way into the hearts of sick hospital patients.

In the past five years, students from Mary Newman's class have donated nearly 650 blankets to those in need. This year, the quilts and blankets will go to the Ronald McDonald house at Memorial Hospital.

The Ronald McDonald house is a homelike facility where family members of long-term patients can stay so as to be near their loved one.

"So many kids are suffering from leukemia and they take that blanket to the hospital. They're allowed one item, we get letter that blankets what they take," said Newman.

"Just to give them a smile on their face for hope they see people do care about them. That's what I did it for," said student Destanie Cobarrubias.

All the quilts are made solely out of supplies donated from the community.

The class is running low on those supplies and desperately need your help in replenishing.

If you'd like to give, please call Mary Newman at 661-431-6770.