While most kids her age are content to play videogames and ride their bikes, 10-year-old Ta’myra Freeman is collecting blankets for the homeless.

Last winter was really cold, Ta’myra said, and she noticed a lot of homeless people, who had no choice but to weather it outdoors as best as they could.

Ta’myra thought on it a little, and saw a good opportunity to give back to the community.

Partnering with her grandmother Dianette Ferguson’s sorority, Sigma Gamma Rho, which mentors girls, the Kilby Shores Elementary School fifth-grader — she’ll be attending Forest Glen Middle School in the fall — began approaching churches about appealing to their members to donate blankets.

“Then I went out to homeless shelters and I gave my blankets to the homeless during the winter,” Ta’myra.

With temperatures currently tipping 90 degrees, the biting cold of the winter just gone might be a distant memory for many. But Ta’myra hasn’t forgotten: she’s still appealing for blankets to distribute in time for next winter.

Anyone who wants to donate can email her at tamyramonkey@gmail.com, or call her grandmother at 757-676-7733.

“I want to give them blankets because they need it, and I don’t see a lot of people giving them blankets,” Ta’myra said, adding she has collected and handed out over 100 of them.

“I want them to feel loved and cared about — like they are important.”

Ta’myra is cooking up another idea to help the vulnerable, too. She said she’s working on starting a nonprofit to help senior citizens.

The idea, she said, is to make little gift bags with toiletry items to hand out at hospitals and nursing homes.

“I’ve written stuff down, and I think I’m going to start maybe in July, doing fundraising and collecting to start buying the stuff,” she said.

Dad Chris Freeman is proud of his daughter. “The effort she’s putting forth for the project is all her,” he said.

“That’s just phenomenal.”