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Family Love: Activities to Inspire Generosity in Kids

Family Love: Activities to Inspire Generosity in Kids

Teaching kids about generosity is not only fun but can also hold so much meaning. It can teach kids how to be compassionate, considerate, kind, and helpful. Family love leads to kids feeling a sense of pride when they share in the generosity of doing something for someone else or for a specific cause.

Activities to Inspire Generosity in Kids

1. Kindness Jar

Have your children write down kindness acts that they do and once a week or once every two weeks, review their efforts. This creates a feeling of accomplishment and pride in performing an act of kindness.

2.  Toy and Clothes Donation

Have the kids sort through their own toys and clothing and choose items that they can give away to children that are less fortunate or donate to a charity, for example: Salvation Army.

3. Neighbourhood Cleanup

Go spend some time outside as a family and clean up garbage on the streets or in a park. Learn more about organizing a neighbourhood clean up day.  This can be a family and community engagement activity.

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4. Hand-made Thank You Notes

Write notes and then decorate them and give them to teachers, firefighters, police officers, your elderly neighbour, a friend who is struggling, or a family member.

5. The Giving Bank

Have three different jars – one for spending, one for saving and one for giving. Allow your child to decide how they want to divide the money amongst the three jars. Family love and sharing how to save and give money to the less fortunate teaches kids responsibility and how to budget based on where money is going.

6. Allowance Sharing

When your child receives an allowance, maybe it could be suggested to them to give some of their allowance to a charity.

7. Adopt-a-Grandparent

Visit the elderly in nursing homes and play board games with them, read a book together, sing, or write a letter for them. This is a family and community engagement activity. You can visit the elderly with family or with a group of friends.

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8. Babysit for Free

If the child is older, they can babysit a family member’s child(ren) or if they have younger siblings, allow the parents to go on a date night as they babysit for the evening. This is about family love.

9. Help a Friend Day

Set aside a day for your child to help a friend or family member in need. Sometimes, just lending a helping hand can provide so much generosity to the person being helped even though we don’t think we are doing too much.

10. Create a Kindness Club

If you want to do acts of kindness with others, and activities that inspire generosity, start a club with your friends so that you can do these generous acts of kindness together as a group. This creates a sense of community engagement.

11. Chalk Messages

Write inspirational, positive, and uplifting messages on sidewalks and driveways to make people smile and spread kindness

12. Surprise Encouragement Notes

Leave notes in books, desks, and mailboxes to spread kindness and positivity but make sure to keep it anonymous so that it’s a surprise.

Teaching kids activities that inspire generosity in them creates a sense of accomplishment, happiness, joy, and fulfillment. It’s not just about the people who receive the generous acts of kindness and love, but it’s also about the children who are providing the kindness acts that create generosity and teach kids what it means to be generous and help others, in both big and small acts of generosity.

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Tammy Lawrence
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Tammy was born and raised on the North Shore of Vancouver and has always believed in supporting the community. She spent years in non-profit work advocating for girls and women in sport and physical activity and then moved on to fundraising for Big Sisters. She currently works from home as a freelance writer while raising her kids. Always passionate about children and youth and giving back to the community, Tammy found a perfect fit with 365give.

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