30 Holiday Kindness Ideas for Kids

30 Holiday Kindness Ideas for Kids

1. Leave a kind note or drawing on a family member’s pillow.
2. Make a thank you card for an essential worker.
3. Draw pictures or write encouraging words on the sidewalk.
4. Paint a kindness rock to place in a park or on someone’s doorstep.
5. Draw pictures and mail them to family or friends.
6. Make cards to send to a senior center or veteran’s home.
7. Help rake a neighbor’s leaves or shovel snow.
8. Pick up trash around the neighborhood.
9. Make a family member’s bed.
10. Leave a family member an encouraging note on the bathroom mirror.
11. Clean and beautify a spot in the house without being asked.
12. Create bookmarks to give to book-lovers.
13. Collect items or money to drop off at a local food pantry or animal shelter.
14. Leave a surprise — flowers, homemade cookies, a nice note — on a neighbor’s doorstep.
15. Read a story to someone.
16. Clean-out a dresser drawer and donate gently-used clothing.
17. Send a kind email message to a teacher.
18. Make encouraging signs to post in your window.
19. Tell someone that you love them.
20. Send a postcard to a community helper, thanking them.
21. Make a birdfeeder.
22. Plant bulbs for spring flowers.
23. Pay a friend a compliment.
24. Get to know your neighbors’ names.
25. Pick out and donate a toy for a holiday gift drive.
26. Help your mom or dad make dinner.
27. Make a get well card for someone.
28. Record a happy song or dance and send it to friends or family who need a pick-me-up.
29. Write a poem for someone.
30. Clean up a mess you didn’t make.

PBS KIDS Kindness Resources

• Play Kindness Bingo.
• Watch Daniel Tiger’s “Thank You Day” episode and think of ways to show thanks to people in your life.
• Learn the Daniel Tiger songs, “It's Great to Be Kind” and “You Can Choose to be Kind.”
• Create a Kindness Tree.
• Read one of these 10 picture books that encourage kindness.
• Watch “PBS KIDS Talk About Kindness.”