National Honor Society is inviting clubs, classes, and groups to participate in the Mix 94.7 Valentine’s Day Cards for Kids drive.

“This will be our fifth year to do this,” NHS sponsor Karol Giblin said. “I was actually driving to school and I was listening to Mix 94.7. I went, ‘wow, that’s a great idea,’ and the NHS meeting was a couple of days after that so I went to Party City and just bought a bunch of stuff. We made, I think, 200 to 250 cards just in the space of the meeting.”

The members had fun being creative and making the cards. Each year the number of cards the club made went up; last year, Giblin decided to invite other groups to participate, and estimates that there were more than 1,000 cards total.

“We kind of lost track,” Giblin said. “We’re hoping to get that many this year to take out.”

Giblin or one of the NHS officers will take the cards to the radio station or the restaurant co-sponsor, Mama Fu’s. From there, they will be delivered to hospitals with children’s wards in the Austin area, including the Ronald McDonald House and the Dell Children’s Hospital, the largest recipient. They also sometimes go to family members of children in the hospitals, and to children whose parents are incarcerated.

The cards must be handmade, in either English or Spanish, and appropriate for children 4 to 10 years of age. Spanish Honor Society, the special education classes, and volleyball and soccer coach Samantha McLane’s sociology class are a few of the groups who have helped make cards.

“A couple years ago I was taking pictures of the kids making the cards and I tweeted them out and tagged the radio station,” Giblin said. “We actually ended up in their little blurb about it on their website.”

The deadline to bring cards to room B110 for delivery is Feb. 3.