This year we wanted to try something different for Christmas. Random Acts of Kindness. I heard about this idea from a friend and thought it would be a great thing to do with our friends and family. Our hope in doing this was to take the focus off of ourselves - off of what we're going to get and what we want - and to put our focus on other people and addressing their needs. These things didn't have to be expensive or monumental. Sometimes it's the small, quiet acts of kindness that mean the most. So we made our list of 12 things we wanted to do before Christmas.
Here's our list for this year:
Shovel someones walk anonymously.
Bake treats for neighbor & Ding Dong Ditch them.
Collect all the change in the house and put it in a Salvation Army red bucket.
Buy something fun for the school secretary.
Deliver dinner anonymously to someone.
Give hot drinks to Construction workers.
Deliver stuffed animals/toys to a Domestic Abuse Shelter.
Bake cookies and deliver to local Fire & Police Stations.
Make ornaments for Grandparents.
Send a card to someone just letting them know you're thinking of them.
Donate books to a library/school.
Buy some Helium balloons and hand them out to random kids.
We left cards like this every time we completed one of the acts.
I didn't take pictures every time we went out but here are a few...Making cookies with friends to bring to the fire fighters and police officers...
delivering the goods...
Here we are passing out balloons with invites to our Christmas Eve service.
Also new this year, we also did a countdown to Christmas...we took the Luke 2 passage and broke it up into 19 different verses to read each night. Along with the verse was a fun little activity that helped you remember what the verse was about. I think the kids really enjoyed this and it helped keep our focus on what was really important at Christmas.
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