Our students and teachers have shared their best daily gives that were used in the classrooms and communities. Use these successes to inspire your daily give of the day, or let the success of these student gives trigger a useful community or personal give today. 365give makes giving easy with small, meaningful acts. Learn from others and complete your give today.

Daily Gives Completed by Elementary Students

• Local Beach/Park Garbage Clean Up
• Low-impact Day: Living without electricity for a day in class and encouraging the rest of the school to do the same.
• Volunteer School Ground Clean Up
• Animal Awareness videos created to support wildlife and endangered species.
• Healthy biscuit made for dogs in need and donated to your local rescue shelter.
• Fundraising: Students do jobs around the house to raise money for their favourite local charity
• Meat Free Day: Support the environment and animal rights!
• Make cookies and deliver them as a special thank you to your local Fire Hall or Police Station.
• Fundraising Event: Popcorn and school supplies sale for a favourite charity.
• Cards for Seniors:  Students prepared handmade cards and delivered them to the local Senior Centre.
• Laughter Class: Students entertain seniors with a class filled with laughter.
• Freerice Game: Students donat food by answering trivia questions online.
• Bake Sale: Students raise funds for their favourite charity with an always popular bake sale.
• Handmade Bird feeders for wildlife in the winter.
• Notes of Gratitude for support staff and volunteer parents at the school.
• Daily Give Goes Home: Help parents at home with chores as a volunteer.
• Grow A Garden: Students plant seeds in class to grow their own food.
• Book Swap: Students bring a book and swap with other students

Suggested Gives That Benefit the Environment

• Turn off the lights when leaving a room or sit in class with no lights for one day.
• Pick up garbage in the schoolyard, around the neighbourhood and/or in the park.
• Use both sides of the paper to draw or write.
• Unplug electronic appliances when not in use (at home and in classroom).
• Make toys or games from items found around the house and classroom.
• Walk don’t drive to school – track how much carbon footprint you save.
• Reuse toilet paper rolls as plant pots for new seeds for a garden. Eco Friendly Kids will supply you with great ideas to support the environment every day.
• Recycle – save juice boxes and other recyclable materials and take them to the recycling depot at the end of the week. Collect the money you get from the depot and donate it to charity.
• Find 10 items in the school ground and create an eco-friendly art project.
• Be Straw Free! Collect any straws you use at home or at school. Reuse them at school for a math (learning to count), science or art project.
• Calculate your Carbon Footprint and discover ways you can help the environment by reducing your footprint. Visit http://www.davidsuzuki.org for other great ideas to help the environment.

Suggested Gives That Benefit Animals and Other Living Creatures

• Collect food, treats and blankets for a local animal shelter. Have a volunteer parent and a few students from the class deliver the items to the shelter.
• Have a fundraising event or visit the Vancouver Aquarium and support ocean education and rescue.
• Go to Click to Give and just “click to give” to support animals in need. See how many bowls of food have been donated Animal Rescue Site.
• Search Care2and discover how your click can support animals globally.
• Become an animal activist and use your voice to create change. Make a video, right a letter to share with your community, sign a petition about an animal cause you believe in. The Blackfish site lists many ways you can take action to help organizations protect animals around the world.