Inside: Use these kindness notecards to easily spread kindness and create happiness for friends, neighbors, and classmates.
We just recently found out that one of our neighbors has cancer.
And of course, we feel awful because it’s been a long battle and while she’s fighting hard, she still has a ways to go.
There’s so little we can do except be there and offer to help when we can and drop off small tokens to let her know we’re thinking of her.
The other day we made her a plate of cookies and sometimes we stick little notes in her mailbox she gets them when her hubby brings in the mail. My daughter just put a kindness rock on her mailbox the other day.
In the grand scheme of life, these small kind gestures are infinitesimal compared to cancer. But they do help. Because small gestures let people know we’re thinking of them, that they matter, and we’re giving them a small piece of “normal” during a ridiculously hard time.
And it teaches my kids that small notes of kindness, small gestures, and kind words make a difference.
So to make it easier to remember to hand out kindness notes, we made these printable kindness notecards we can use to pass out to neighbors and friends, whether they need a little pick me up because of a bad day, or they need a gigantic pick me up like our neighbor.
Why We Teach Our Kids to Be Kind
We intentionally teach our kids to be kind by making it one of our only two family rules.
When we pick our battles in our home, unkindness, cruelty and bullying behaviors are always battles we choose.
Why? Because we expecting our kids to be kind is how we create a calm, happier, more peaceful home.
Raising kind kids also makes them happier people because science has proven that people who speak and act with kindness are happier people.
And raising my kids to be kind is one of my most favorite ways to change the world for the better. My kids will go out and spread kindness to others and improve the world around them, one kind act at a kind.
So to encourage kindness, we read books about kindness and talk about kindness with this Skittles Game and play this Sibling Kindness Game.
We also perform random acts of kindness like these and make kindness a habit with our 365 Days of Kindness Family Calendar.
And now we can add an easy way for our kids to spread kindness with these kindness notecards.
How to Use These Kindness Notecards
1. Download and print these kindness cards on cardstock paper. (download them below)
2. Cut the cards apart.
3. Your kids can color or decorated the cards. And they can sign their name to the card or keep it anonymous.
4. Kids can give these kindness notes to friends, neighbors, or anyone they see having a bad day.
Or they can hide the cards in library books or mailboxes or in a friend’s desk or locker.
Because sometimes, even just a simple note can mean the world to someone who is having a bad day or feeling self-conscious or anxious.
Download the Kindness Cards here.
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