- Take cookies, cards, or goody bags to a senior living facility. They love young guests!
- Sing carols for your elderly neighbors or get a list of home bound people from your church and make a special trip to sing for them.
- Organize a neighborhood food drive and drop off the food at a donation center.
- Bake something for the firehouse or the police station and deliver it.
- Send Christmas cards to those serving in the armed forces over seas.
- Make homemade Christmas cards with words of hope and inspiration to give to those who need cheering during the holidays!
- Most churches will deliver meals on holidays. Take the family and deliver a meal.
- Take toys to the Operation Stocking Stuffer at the fire stations.
- See what kind of items are needed at the a women’s and children’s shelter, then collect those.
- Make a Christmas tree for the birds with popcorn garland and birdseed ornaments.
- Candy cane bomb a school parking lot where the teachers park.
- Donate cookie decorating bags to a food pantry to distribute (include cookie dough mix, icing, sprinkles, a few cookie cutters, and a small gift card to a grocery store to cover perishable items).
- Little Lights is an organization for young kids.
- Put quarters on machines at laundromat.
- Assemble blessing bags and make a trip to deliver them.
- The Food Bank has family night once per month. Kids as young as 6 can volunteer, and siblings as young as 4 can come and work on crafts.
- Sponsor a pet at a local shelter. Help with food and perhaps take the pet for a walk if the shelter allows.
- Clean up parks with the kids.
What other ideas do you have?