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Catholic schools across the country are uniting in a common theme this week: faith, academics, and service.

Students at Holy Spirit in Great Falls focused on the "service" aspect this week by making blankets for Project Linus to help Montana families.

Mary Moore-Wingert explained, "Make blankets and give them to children who need them. They go to Shodair, different hospitals, and some go to the Montana Highway Patrol to keep in the car for kids who are in accidents."

Students work in groups, pairing older students with younger to help coordinate the effort.

Fourth-grader Avery Holden said, "It's all just a group effort, not just you doing it by yourself, and it makes you feel even better when the whole school comes together and does it."

The students created about 50 blankets to donate.

Learn more about Project Linus at the website, including this overview:

As Charles Schulz's Linus character from the PEANUTS® comic strip was comforted by his blanket, Project Linus strives to do the same and more for children who are seriously ill, traumatized, or otherwise in need. The blankets our nearly 400 chapter coordinators collect from thousands of "blanketeers" (volunteers) across the United States and then distributed to these children provide love, a sense of security, warmth, and comfort.