This Spring Kindness Challenge is a fun and simple way to encourage our kids to spread kindness this spring. There are 4 activities for March, April, and May.
Spring is a time for renewal. Of freshness and fresh air and fresh new rainboots.
So it’s the perfect time to spread kindness in the world.
We can spread kindness to our neighbors, to safe strangers and in our own homes.
Our kids can go looking for rainbows and leprechauns and Easter eggs and look for ways to spread kindness.
These Spring Kindness Activities for kids will help you find easy ways to speak and act with kindness more often.
Why should we have a kindness challenge?
We are raising our kids to be kind.
But we can’t just cross our fingers and hope it happens.
We have to intentionally make it happen.
We talk about kindness, model kindness and praise kindness.
Related: 60 Kindness Discussion Starters
We remind them to speak and act with kindness by making it one of our only two family rules.
We can volunteer with them to show them how easy it is to give.
In our family, we encourage both big and small acts of kindness.
We brought Kindness Elves into our home to inspire more acts of kindness.
We read books about kindness like these:
And we play Tic Tac Toe Kindness and Fidget Spinner Kindness.
But each season, we also do a Kindness Challenge like this Summer Kindness Challenge, Fall Kindness Challenge, and Winter Kindness Challenge.
So now that it’s spring, we’re changing it up to kindness activities perfect for March, April, and May.
Want More Spring Kindness Activities?
Countdown to Spring Break with this Kindness Countdown to Spring Break Paper Chain
Spring Kindness Social Emotional Learning
Spring Kindness Challenge
Every month, we challenge our kids to do 4 kind things for others as they spread kindness to:
- Siblings
- Parents
- Classmates
- Teammates
- Friends
- Teachers
- Neighbors
- Community helpers
For spring, you can print out this Challenge Checklist to post on your fridge as a reminder and as a challenge to complete it all by the end of fall. You can download it below.
Kindness Activities for April:
- Tell your family members why you’re lucky they’re in your family
Related: Lucky Notes Printables for Family
- Invite a student who is alone to sit with you
Related: How to encourage kids to be includers
- Donate books you don’t read any more to a donation center
- Make some friendship cookies and drop them off to a friend
Related: Friendship Cookies Recipe
Kindness Activities for April:
- Compliment an opponent or hi-five an opposing team member
- Leave a kind note in a library book
- Host a bake sale and donate the money to a cause that’s important to you
- Call your grandparents just to say “hi” to them
BONUS Activity: 15 Easter Kindness Activities
Kindness Activities for May:
- Draw a card for your teacher and tell them why you like them
Related: How to thank our teachers
- Give a compliment to your mom and ask her how her day was
Related: Write this My Mommy Is Poem
- Say “yes” when a classmate asks to play or partner up with you
- Hold the door open for someone behind you
Then, when they’re done with each months’ challenges, encourage your kids to focus on our next seasonal challenge: our Summer Kindness Challenge.
Get the Spring Kindness Printable here.
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