MIFFLINBURG -- For some children with cancer, blankets provide needed warmth. For others, comfort.

Kelsey Kuhns was cold when she attended Camp Dost, a pediatric cancer camp in Millville.

She had gone to the weeklong camp since she was first diagnosed at age 5 with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, a terminal form of cancer of the white blood cells, which normally fight infections.

For many years the camp didn't have enough blankets, said her mother, Tina Kuhns, of Mifflinburg.

"When you're a cancer patient, receiving treatments, you sometimes get chilly," she said of her daughter.

Then one day, Kelsey went to her cabin and found extra blankets on the bed.

"This made her very happy, particularly since she was so sick," Tina said. "She loved those blankets. That's why this is such a special program for us. Because we know that Kelsey, and kids like her, really like it."

In the program, Tina and others will sew blankets Wednesday to be given to children attending Camp Dost or receiving a bone marrow transplant at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

The program is a part of Kelsey's Dream, a foundation dedicated to helping children with cancer and other severe illnesses, and in memory of Kelsey, who died in 2005 after an eight-year battle with her disease.

"We did this because we believed this was what Kelsey would have wanted," Tina said of the foundation.

Kylie Kuhns, Kelsey's 10-year-old sister, came up with the blanket idea while talking with Kelsey at Camp Dost, which draws about 100 children each summer.

The goal is to provide every child who attends Camp Dost, or is a bone marrow patient at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, with a blanket from Kelsey's Dream.

A group meets the third Wednesday of every month at Hoover's Bernina, a sewing shop in Mifflinburg, Tina said.

"Last year, our second year doing this, about 12 people showed up and we only did 97 fleece blankets in total for camp and for the hospital in Philadelphia," she said.

That wasn't enough.