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How to Use this Monthly Kindness Challenge to Make Kindness a Habit

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Inside: Challenge and encourage kids to speak and act with kindness on a daily basis with this Monthly Kindness Challenge activity. 


100 day of kindness activities for schools to help kids be kind at school, at home and in their community more often. Make kindness a habit by assigning acts of kindness each day.

As summer was about to come to a close, I decided to pack the kids up and do a last-minute trip to the lake. 

The kids were excited for the surprise trip and I was excited for the extra family time… and for a change of scenery. 

My youngest gets car sick easily, so I had to get creative as to what would occupy her during the drive.

My oldest suggest that we play “categories,” where one person selects a category and everyone takes a turn saying something that belongs in that category until someone is stumped and unable to come up with an answer.

When is was my son’s turn, he picked his favorite topic, “Superheroes.” 

After we went through the most common superheroes, like Batman, Superman, and Captain America, my youngest said, “brave.” 

We were able to keep ourselves occupied, as we continued to shout out all of the amazing attributes we associate with Superheroes, from the characteristics that define them to the superpowers they possess.

We all have the ability to be a superhero every day by being kind to others.

When we acknowledge and reward kids for daily acts of kindness, we encourage these behaviors to continue. With positive reinforcement and repetition, kindness becomes a habit both in and out of the classroom.

And we can use our Monthly Kindness Challenge to encourage and challenge our kids to speak and act with kindness more often, both at school and at home.

Use this monthly kindness challenge to encourage students to speak and act with kindness more often so kindness becomes a habit

Why It’s Necessary to Teach SEL

Social Emotional Learning, or SEL, is just as crucial as reading, writing, or math.

SEL helps children to understand and manage emotions. In addition, social emotional learning creates and helps maintain healthy friendships, empathy, goal-setting, and self-regulation skills.

When students have limited social-emotional skills, they are more likely to struggle when faced with new challenges or conflict both in and out of our classrooms.

So, children must be taught how to be kind because it is a learned skill.

To do that, we can use kindness games to show them how to be kind like our Kindness Fidget Spinner, our Kind or Trash Game, and our Tic Tac Toe Kindness Game. 

We also use social emotional curriculum activities like our Kindness Emergent Reader Bundle, our Kindness Zoo, and our 100 Days of Kindness. 

Related: 10 Easy Ways to Teach SEL

Here are some of our favorite kindness books:

Kindness Snippet Jar

 Kindness Starts with You – At School

The Jelly Donut Difference: Sharing Kindness with the World 

Related: Even More Kindness Books for Your Kids 

Use this monthly kindness challenge to encourage students to speak and act with kindness more often so kindness becomes a habit

How to Use the Monthly Kindness Challenge Pages

1. Print out a copy of the record sheet for each child (download below).

Use this monthly kindness challenge to encourage students to speak and act with kindness more often so kindness becomes a habit

2. Go over the ideas for each day of the week and make sure they understand what each one means.

Use this monthly kindness challenge to encourage students to speak and act with kindness more often so kindness becomes a habit

3. Encourage kids to do at least one kind thing a day, following the record sheet. So on the Monday of the first week, they’ll use their manners with a classmate or friend. On Tuesday of the second week, they’ll be helpful to someone younger than them, and so on.

A great idea for parents to modify the Monthly Kindness Challenge pages to use at home, would be to change it to, “Neighbor or Teammate” for Week 1 and “Sibling or Relative” for Week 2. For Week 3, you could use “Parent” or another adult that your child regularly interacts with like a coach, grandparent or music instructor.

4. Once they’ve been kind for the day at least once, they can color in the box, put a stamp in it, or a sticker. Remind them they can always do more acts of kindness if they’d like. 

Monthly Kindness challenge printables

At the end of each day or week, we can ask students to share their acts of kindness with the class.

We can praise the act and praise the student by using our Caught Being Kind Cards or our Interactive Kindness Bulletin Boards. 

5. When the month is up, and they’ve filled in their kindness boxes, print out another recording sheet and start again because building a kind act a day will make kindness a habit.

When our students act with more kindness and activate their superpowers, it’s a win for everyone.

Download the Monthly Kindness Challenge here.

Use this monthly kindness challenge to encourage students to speak and act with kindness more often so kindness becomes a habit


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I’m Nicole and I am a recovering elementary school teacher, a mom to three super busy kids, and I mostly survive on strong coffee.

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