An 8-year-old Florida boy is spreading holiday cheer to his 800 classmates by making them all Christmas stockings.

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Hunter Asbury wanted to make sure every student at Hernando Elementary School had a gift.

"My dream was to let no kid go without Christmas," he told WTVT. "It comes from my heart."

Hunter will sew the stockings himself.

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"The day he came up to me and told me he wanted to make stockings for everybody in his school, I literally started crying," his mother, Belinda Asbury, told WTVT.

Hunter will hand out the gifts Dec. 5 at the school’s Winter Wonderland festival. =

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