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    Home » Resources » Volunteering

    Kind Days: For kids that are too young to volunteer in Houston... How can we still teach compassion?

    Modified: Dec 20, 2014 by Jill Jarvis · This post may contain affiliate links · This blog generates income via ads · #sponsoredpost · Leave a Comment

    James Helping the Police Man
    My littlest little kids are too young to volunteer around Houston. At the Houston Food Bank, for example, kids must be 6 years old to volunteer. Even so, I want even my youngest kids to know what it feels like to be compassionate and to help others. To help design our own "kind days", I asked the BigKidSmallCity community for ideas... and this is what Houston parents suggested!

    • 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?

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