Random Acts of Christmas Kindness

Ages: 3 years and up

Materials Required: A positive attitude!

Time duration: Depends on each activity

Christmas is a great time to focus on the joy of giving rather than just receiving this holiday season. It’s the perfect time to inculcate the value of kindness in your little ones – and it helps in banishing many of the I wants that often come around at this time of the year.

Below is a list of kindness activities that you can use with your child in the days that lead up to Christmas, and right into the New Year. Try and complete one activity a day and inculcate the positive attitude of GIVING & GRATITUDE as you lead up to the New Year.

What better way to ring in the New Year?, right!

1.Create and give out a compliment card for any person that is important to you

2.Donate food/ books/ clothes to a local charity/underprivileged children

3.Donate food to an animal shelter

4.Pick up litter on a beach or garden

5.Make a Thank you note for your teacher

6.Let someone go ahead of you in line

7.Smile at everyone you see

8.Make a card/send food to your neighbor

9.Feed the birds in your neighborhood

10.Teach your help at home something new!

11. Share your food/snack with your friend in school

12.Help your mom out with chores in the house

13.Spend quality time with your grandparents/any other relatives

14.Eat dinner with dad and ask him about his day

15.Say a prayer for someone else

16.Hold the door for someone

17.Help a stranger in any way you can

18.Call a faraway friend or relative to say hello

19.Bake cookies for your neighbor/friend with the help of mom

20. Donate your old & unused toys to a charity

Once you are done with all these acts of kindness, discuss with your child how it made them feel. Make them promise to keep this attitude of giving a constant and to keep finding new ways to give.