Heartwarming moment Santa visits girl, 8, to give her gift wrapped in paper she designed to help other sick kids
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BIG-HEARTED Daisy Tullett poses with Father Christmas as he hands her a gift wrapped in the paper SHE created to help other sick children. The brave eight-year-old came up with a Santa design as part of The Sun on Sunday’s Christmas Wrapping For Kids campaign to raise money to buy presents for youngsters in hospital.
![[Daisy Tullett receives her present from Santa – in the paper she designed for our fundraiser in aid of sick children]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2024-daisy-tullett-santa-mrs-954993365.jpg?strip=all&w=834)
In an extraordinary twist, she was on a ward at Birmingham Children’s Hospital when Santa brought the gifts — purchased with the proceeds of her winning artwork. So by sheer coincidence she has become one of the beneficiaries too. Earlier this year we asked our young readers to draw Christmas pictures to be turned into limited-edition wrapping for our great charity push.
![[Daisy was crowned the winner of The Suns wrapping paper competition]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/daisy-tullett-photographed-birmingham-children-936931308.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
As well as Daisy’s creation, two other winning designs were chosen — reindeer heads by Quinn Jenkinson, 12, from Colchester, Essex, and a drawing of a gingerbread man, Father Christmas and a snowman, by Cassius Greenhalgh, five, from Leigh, Gtr Manchester.
![[Santa with his helper Safiyya Vorajee]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/2024-tamini-owdfedhllah-santa-mrs-954993929.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
The giftwrap was sold in The Works stores nationwide with proceeds going towards presents and funding childhood cancer research via our charity partner The Azaylia Foundation. Wearing fun “antlers” and a red Rudolph nose, Daisy, who has been battling a blood cancer called acute lymphoblastic leukaemia since March, beamed from ear to ear as she opened her Lego set gift.
![[Also visited by Santa was Matvii Liakh]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/santa-visits-proton-beam-therapy-954505709.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
She said: “I can’t believe I am getting a present in the paper I designed. Yes, I am proud. It means a lot.”. Daisy lives in Ross-on-Wye, Herefordshire, with brothers Jacob, ten, and Rory, six, dad Richard, 33, who works for a renewable energy firm, and mum Holly, 31.
![[Esmai Wright-Stanford receives her gift from Father Christmas]](https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/santa-visits-proton-beam-therapy-954505583.jpg?strip=all&w=960)
