Inside: Use these Christmas kindness activities for kids to focus on and spread kindness during the December holidays.
With the Christmas season approaching, it’s easy to get excited and hyped for the lights and the cookies and the Santa presents.
And with the craziness of December and the holidays, it’s easy to get swept away in to do lists and shopping and decorating and forget that December is also the perfect time to show kindness towards others.
We focus on kindness every day, and every month by talking about and practicing kindness. It’s absolutely not reserved for December.
But teaching our kids to be kind can’t be a one-and-done conversation.
So we have to consistently and intentionally teach kindness and give kids specific ways to show kindness to others.
But since kids LOVE Christmas, it’s the perfect time to lean into what they love and connect Christmastime with giving to others and doing for others and helping others.
And to make it easier and more fun, we use the Christmas Kindness Activities for kids in this Christmas Kindness Bundle.
Why Kindness in December for Kids is So Essential:
December is the month of gluttony and busy-ness and receiving all the gifts.
So to balance it all out, it’s essential to slow down and focus on kindness during December. We can help kids practice being kind before the holiday and give them real-life ways to show kindness every day as they count down to Santa’s visit.
Because while they’re receiving, they can also be giving.
While there is definite gluttony, they can also practice gratitude.
And while there is busy-ness, they can also slow down and take the time to do meaningful acts of kindness for the people in their lives.
But kindness doesn’t just always happen.
We have to explicitly and intentionally teach kids how to be kind.
So, we can read Christmas Kindness books like these with them:
Two Lists for Christmas: The Christmas Kindness-List
Secret Santas And The Twelve Days of Christmas Giving
And we can also explicitly teach kindness with this Christmas Kindness Bundle.
Have an interfaith family or Jewish classroom? You’ll love our Hanukkah Kindness Bundle.
Can’t teach only Christmas in your classroom? You’ll love our non-religious Winter Kindness Bundle.
What’s Included in the Christmas Kindness Bundle:
This Christmas Kindness Bundle comes with:
1. Christmas Kindness Emergent Reader in color
2. Christmas Kindness Emergent Reader in black and white
3. Christmas Kindness Discussion Starters
4. Christmas Kindness writing prompts
5. Gingerbread Cookie Kindness Emergent Reader in color
6. Gingerbread Cookie KindnessEmergent Reader in black and white
7. Gingerbread Cookie Kindness Discussion Starters
8. Gingerbread Cookie Kindness Writing prompts
9. Printable Christmas Random Acts of Kindness
10. Christmas Kindness Advent Calendar
11. Christmas Kind or Unkind Sorting Game in color and black and white
12. Christmas Kindness Writing prompts
13. Christmas Kindness Countdown Paper Chain
14. Countdown to Winter Break with Kindness Paper Chain
15. Christmas Kindness Role Playing Cards
16. Christmas Kindness Handprints Crafts
17. Gingerbread Craft and Write
- Small gingerbread cookies in color to draw on
- Small gingerbread cookies in color to write on
- Small gingerbread cookies in black and white to draw on
- Large gingerbread cookies in black and white to draw on
- Large gingerbread cookies in black and white to write on
- 5 different writing sheets to choose from
- Ideas to display kindness craft, publish writing, and connect to listening and speaking skills
How to Use the Christmas Kindness Activities for Kids Bundle:
Purchase the Christmas Kindness Bundle and then print out the resources you want to use first.
You can start by talking about kindness in December and why it’s so essential with the Discussion starters.
Choose which version of Christmas Kindness Emergent Reader you want to use (color, black and white, or the no illustrations version). If you use the black and white version, encourage kids to use these skin color crayons so they can draw their friends and family and teacher.
You can also use the Gingerbread Cookie Kindness Emergent Reader.
Kids can practice spreading kindness as they countdown to Christmas with our Christmas Kindness Advent Calendar, or our Paper Chain Kindness Countdowns. We have one for counting down to Christmas and one for counting down to Winter Break. Every day, kids will rip off one of the paper chains, do the kindness activity, and be one day closer to Christmas Break!
The visual representation of the paper chain will show kids how many days are left without you having to answer!
There are plenty of writing opportunities to connect creative writing and expository writing to kindness in December, including our Gingerbread Craft and Write and our Christmas kindness writing prompts.
Kids can sort kind and unkind actions as a small group or as a whole group game to determine what is kind and what is not.
They can practice different ways they can be kind during December with the Christmas Kindness Role Playing Cards.
Kids can craft some kindness with these Christmas kindness handprints they will make and then give to a local nursing home, retirement home or hospital to decorate their halls and rooms.
Kids can practice being kind with our Christmas Random Acts of Kindness cards they can pass out to their neighbors as they look at Christmas lights and decorations.
Teaching kindness doesn’t have to be a chore, or something boring, or something hard.
We can do it in a meaningful, fun, hands-on way with the resources in the Christmas Kindness Bundle.
Ready to get it and focus on kindness this December with your kids? You need these Christmas Kindness Activities for kids!
Get the Christmas Kindness Bundle in Teachers Pay Teachers now.
Have an interfaith family or Jewish classroom? You’ll love our Hanukkah Kindness Bundle.
Can’t teach only Christmas in your classroom? You’ll love our non-religious Winter Kindness Bundle.
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