9-year-old crafts bracelets for Broncos team

She has spent hours, even giving up time at recess, to twist and wind the green and yellow Rainbow Loom bands into bracelets.

“I started making them with my friend ‘cause she came over for a play date on Monday,” she said. “And then my mom looked in my backpack and then she saw the Rainbow Loom and then she thought it was really cool.”

“Initially she was talking about just giving them away to her classmates for the Broncos and I kind of just made a comment, ‘well, you know, this might be a great thing to sell’ and she’s like ‘that’s awesome!’,” her mom said.

Her goal was to make 50 and sell them for $2 each.

Any of the money raised is going to the Broncos GoFundMe page, which has already raised more than $10.8 million.

“I just thought it would just be nice for the Broncos and it can help them raise money,” Jayden said.

Her mom posted about the bracelets on her Facebook page, and the post has brought in numerous orders.

The family said they’ve lost count of how many bracelets her little fingers have made.

They’ve already raised more than $350.

“She says she’s up for the challenge and she’ll continue making them,” Alisha said. “I’m willing to help, she’s got help from her sister and a friend.”

Jayden first heard about what happened to Humboldt Broncos on Saturday morning.

“My dad’s just like, ‘Jayden, you need to look at this story’,” she said.

“It was somewhat hard,” said Shawn, her dad. “I’m, like, thinking ‘how am I going to explain this to her’, you know, and she’s a smart girl so she figured it out right away.”

The story broke the heart of the hockey-loving family.

“We’ve said it as parents and with our coach that we were wanting to send our kid to a provincial game this year,” said Alisha, as she wiped a tear from her cheek. “We made a comment that ‘oh, we should take a bus’. It was winter and stormy and we said ‘buses are safer’.”

Jayden knew, being a hockey player herself, that her teammates needed her.

“Someone’s hurt, someone’s down. You want to pick them up by helping them and I think that that just comes naturally to a hockey player,” Shawn said.

“Since I’m making these, it makes me feel happy and it makes me feel good that I’m helping someone,” Jayden added.

Jayden said she’ll continue to support her teammates, as long as she doesn’t run out of rubber bands.

“We’re thinking until I run out of looms but if we can, we’re trying to see if we can do it for the rest of the month,” she said.

by Ashley Wiebe

9-year-old crafts bracelets for Broncos team

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