Christmas Time – The Season Of Goodwill
Children can be very giving, especially when they understand that not everyone has as much as them and giving is also a good thing to learn. Giving can be a part of an Advent Calendar, so here are 12 acts of kindness for kids to do as part of their Christmas Advent Calendar. For some of these, you will need the ingredients ready ahead of time, unless you have the time to go out and source them before starting. For others, you will need to consider safety and caution and you will also have to consider those who may be shielding from coronavirus.
- Make Cookies For The Neighbors.
- Give Someone A Compliment.
- Visit someone who is housebound.
- Make and deliver a card for someone in your area who is lonely.
- Make an elf basket and leave it on someone’s doorstep with an anonymous poem. This is also known as “you’ve been elfed” and is a neighborhood game, as it is a type of “pay it forward” action.
- Older teens could volunteer at a homeless facility or collect for charity.
- leave a Christmas card on someone’s windscreen
- give a blanket or pair of socks or gloves to a homeless person
- leave a card or “beautiful” note in a friend or parent’s bag or pocket or somewhere for them to find
- take toys to a charity
- help out in a foodbank or donate food
- call a distant friend or relative you haven’t contacted for a while.
- leave a treat for the mailman / garbage collector
- pick up litter
- take supplies to an animal shelter or donate money to their vet or food supplier to help out with their finances
- Paint stones or small rocks and dot them round your neighborhood for people o find
- pay it forward in a food queue, pay for the coffee of the person behind you.
- drop some change in a charity box
- write a thank you note
- complete an entry in a gratitude journal
- do a job for someone that they were not expecting
- make a bird feeder
