Edgewood Elementary School students set goal to make 1,000 sandwiches for homeless shelter

OAK CREEK, Wis. (CBS 58) -- The kids at Edgewood Elementary School in Greenfield took on an ambitious project on Friday, March 27. They made sandwiches to deliver to the Guest House homeless shelter. The goal was to make 1,000 sandwiches in one hour. 

The kids did a lot of legwork in advance by collecting the peanut butter, jelly, deli meat and bread. 

This was all after a month-long class project on empathy. 

"Kids are pumped," said Meg Boyd, Edgewood Elementary School. "Today I was outside at recess and kids were just, 'We're gonna do over 1,000 right?' And then I ran into a parent at Meijer when I was buying extra supplies and he said my kids are making 400 and I was like whoa we'll see, we might run out of bread for that but they're excited."