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World Kindness Day Activities for Kids: 9 Fun Ideas

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Inside: Use these 9 ideas for World Kindness Day Activities for Kids to spread more kindness to your community. 


Every November 13th is World Kindness Day. 

Around the world, communities focus on acts of kindness they can do to improve the world around them. 

Now if we are intentionally raising kind kids, every day has to be kindness day…one day a year won’t cut it. 

Just like Kindness Week Doesn’t Work as a stand-alone.

If we want kind kids, and we are kind ourselves, we need to make kindness a habit and speak and act with kindness every day.  

But…if we celebrate and honor World Kindness Day to encourage and inspire others to speak and act with kindness more often, then it’s a great day to celebrate. 

And there are tons of kid-friendly and family-friendly World Kindness Day Activities for Kids you can do this November.

Use these 9 ideas for World Kindness Day Activities for Kids to spread more kindness to your community on November 13th each year. 

World Kindness Day Activities for Kids:

1. World Kindness Day Activities: Volunteer

Finding kid-friendly ways to volunteer can be hard because most organizations want teenagers or adults. 

But here are 12 family-friendly, kid-friendly volunteering activities that you can do any time of the year. 

Here is our November Volunteering Idea for Kids that is perfect for World Kindness Day. 

Here are even more ideas for Monthly Volunteering for Families.

Family-friendly volunteer opportunities that allow your kids to spread kindness and give back through community service projects. #coffeeandcarpool #volunteer #serviceproject#giveback #volunteering

2. Thank Someone

Thank Essential Workers– thanking people who are important to you is a great way to show kindness and gratitude. You can thank any essential worker: medical personnel, delivery drivers, grocery workers, educators, firefighters, and garbage/recycling collectors. 

As an added bonus, put snacks and/or drinks on your porch for delivery drivers who are hard at work delivering holiday packages. 

These free kindness activities for kids has over 20 printable sheets and coloring pages. They are a perfect way to help kids thank essential workers during the Covid-19 quarantine. Spread kindness and thank our essential workers who make our every day lives easier and safer. #kindness #covid19kindness #thankessentialworkers #essentialworkers #thankessentialworkers #thankyouessentialworkers #essentialworkersappreciation

Thank your Teacher– there’s no need to wait until Teacher Appreciation Week in May to thank our teacher. You can write a sweet note to the educators at your school on World Kindness Day. with these Thank a Teacher Notes.

Show teachers and school staff appreciation with these kindness appreciation thank you notes for educators

3. Compliment Someone

Giving compliments is a sweet way to spread kindness to others. We can of course give verbal compliments or we can write down a quick compliment to lift up others. Print and use these Compliment Cards to make it easier.

Help kids give compliments to others as a way to spread kindness. If we want kids to speak and act with kindness more often, we need to show them how easy it is to give compliments to others.

4. Help Someone

Helping someone in a small or big way is a great way to show kindness. 

We can bring food to someone who is hungry or donate money to someone asking for it. 

But for our kids, we can also teach them to be helpers in smaller ways that don’t require money. 

Here’s a list of ways kids can be helpers any day of the year, but especially on World Kindness Day:

How kids can be helpers and learn to love to help #raisekindkids #raisingkindkids #chorecharts #raisekindkids #raisehelpers #raisekidstohelp #helpers #kidscanhelp #goldenrule #coffeeandcarpool

5. Cheer Up Someone

Cheer up someone in your life who needs a little pick me up with our Lift Up Others Balloon note cards. Maybe someone needs a little kind note or a sweet word to get them through a hard day or bad week. 

Use these lift up others kindness balloons when someone needs cheering up or cheering on.

6. World Kindness Day Activities: Make a New Friend

Making a new friend is a great way to show kindness on World Kindness Day. 

Learn how to make a new friend with our Meet New Friends Role Playing.

7. Include Someone 

Including others to make sure they feel seen, heard, welcomed, and wanted is such an impactful way to be a kind person. 

Teach kids to be includers and use this Includer Bingo to encourage kids to be includers more often.

Includer Bingo Game is a way to encourage kids to be kind to other kids, include classmates, invite kids they don't know well to sit with them or play with them or partner with them. It's an easy kindness activity for kids that gives them practice being kind. #kindnessactivities #kindnessactivity #kindnessactivitiesforkids #kindkids #includer #bingogamesforkids #classroomkindness #teachkindnessinschools #schoolkindness #teacherresources #sel #coffeeandcarpool #raisekindkids

8. Give Someone a Small Gift/Note

Gifting someone a small little gift or a note is a sweet way to let them know you’re thinking of them. 

You can bake these Friendship Cookies and give them to a neighbor or your local fire station. 

Deliver friendship cookies on this friendship plate to friends or neighbors.

9. Do a Random Act of Kindness for Someone

Random acts of kindness are fun ways for kids to spread kindness. 

You can encourage your kids to Hide a Dollar. 

Use this hide a dollar random act of kindness for kids that only costs one dollar to spread kindness.

Or kids may love our Hide a Toy RAK. 

Random acts of kindness for kids perfect for a summer activity for kids. These free printables and dollar store toys will spread kindness this summer when you hide them at your local park. #raks #randomactsofkindnessforkids #summer #kindness #summeractivities #summeractivity #kindkids #coffeeandcarpool #freeprintable #kids

Which of these World Kindness Day Activities for kids are you going to do on November 13th?

 

Use these 9 ideas for World Kindness Day Activities for Kids to spread more kindness to your community on November 13th each year. 

Use these 9 ideas for World Kindness Day Activities for Kids to spread more kindness to your community on November 13th each year. 

Use these 9 ideas for World Kindness Day Activities for Kids to spread more kindness to your community on November 13th each year. 

Use these 9 ideas for World Kindness Day Activities for Kids to spread more kindness to your community on November 13th each year. 

Use these 9 ideas for World Kindness Day Activities for Kids to spread more kindness to your community on November 13th each year. 

Use these 9 ideas for World Kindness Day Activities for Kids to spread more kindness to your community on November 13th each year. 


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I’m Nicole and am a recovering elementary school teacher, a mom to three super busy kids, and the founder of The Raising Kind Kids Club where we share strategies and resources with busy parents and educators to intentionally focus on kindness, family connection, and bullying prevention.

We have hundreds of paid and free done-for-you resources to make teaching kindness and social emotional learning to kids easy, fun, and hands-on. Email me at nicole@coffeeandcarpool.com if there’s a resource that you wish you had.

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