World Kindness Day Activities for Kids: 9 Fun Ideas

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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:

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.