We’ve all heard the saying “No Act of Kindness No Matter How Small Is Ever Wasted,” and we truly believe that! At Kids Can Give Too, the importance of kindness has always been in the
forefront. Creating a kinder, more giving generation of kids is part of our mission, but how can you as a parent inspire your kids to be more giving? Through Random Acts of Kindness!
February 17th is National Random Acts of Kindness Day and we’d like to encourage everyone to participate! Not only for the day, or this week, but throughout the year! If you are looking for ways to teach your children to be kinder and more giving, here are ideas to inspire your family to pay it forward….
For the Kids:
- Make a new friend, sit with them at lunch
- Share with a friend (a snack, a new toy, a story)
- Make holiday cards for a nursing home or children’s hospital.
- Clean up litter at a park
- Sing Happy Birthday to someone
- Share a smile
- Give a compliment
- Tell someone a joke
- Put money in the vending machine or parking meter
- Help another family member with a chore
- Write a thank you note for someone who helped them (school nurse, teacher, post man)
- Help a younger kid with a task (homework, learning a game or tying shoes)
- Donate books to a library
- Hold the door for a stranger
- Help clean up in the classroom
- Let someone in front of them in the lunch line
- Help a someone carry their groceries
- Donate toys to a kid in need
- Give an unexpected gift
- Plant a tree
- Offer to babysit
- Write a letter to a family member
- Partner with someone who normally is left out
- Offer to pet sit when neighbors are out of town/ water the plants too 🙂
- Write a letter to someone in the military
- Give someone a flower
- Make someone smile
- Offer to help
- Shovel a sidewalk
- Help a friend, neighbor, family member wash their car
For the Family:
- Deliver dinner or treats to a neighbor
- Visit an animal shelter and help walk dogs
- Make gifts for teachers
- Plant flowers at a park
- Volunteer with a charity
- Recycle
- Send dessert to a family at a restaurant
- Leave inspiring chalk messages around town
- Plan a fundraiser for your favorite charity
- Leave a treat (few bottles of bubbles or hula hoops) at a local park
- Invite another family to dinner
- Help a family in need
- Make bags of personal items, keep them in the car and pass out to homeless.
- Donate unwanted clothes, coats, shoes, toys and household items.
- Set a Reminder to Host a charity birthday party with Kids Can Give Too. The birthday child will help a charity by sharing 1/2 of the gifts with a charity and still get a gift card for a really great gift! Here’s how it works.
