Kindness Calendar for Kids

Help encourage your children to be kind this holiday season with this customizable printable kindness calendar for kids & lots of family friendly RAK ideas!

If you’ve been here for awhile, you know that before I turned 30, I completed 30 Random Acts of Kindness. It was such a rewarding experience completing each random act of kindness (RAK) as well as sharing it with my readers- many of which were inspired to do their own RAKs!

I didn’t want spreading kindness to stop with my 30th birthday, so when my friend Jenna, at There’s a Shoe for That, asked me to partner up to create a Kindness Calendar for Kids, I was SO excited.

We decided to complete acts of kindness for the month of December, as a different twist on a traditional advent calendar! It is our hope to teach our little ones at a young age to be kind and serve others, especially during the holiday season when it can sometimes be easy to get wrapped up in the consumerism aspect of it all. We have included TONS of kindness ideas that are family friendly, as well as ideas that vary in length of time, preparation and cost (many are free!)

We hope that you will join us! We have all the printables that you need AND the best part is, it is completely customizable!! You can pick and choose which acts of kindness work best for your family AND pick the days that you complete them. If completing a RAK every single day seems like too much, try completing one every other day, or once a week! If December is completely packed for you…do them in the new year instead! The point is–make it work for you and your family and have fun with it!

Kindness Calendar for Kids Printables

We have several different free printables available to help you spread kindness! The first is a customizable calendar with a list of kindness ideas. You can pick and choose which RAKs to complete, as well as which days to complete them.

Click here to head over to There’s a Shoe for That and snag the Kindness Calendar!

Another option is to print these individual kindness cards! These can be used SO many different ways. I chose to hang them on this picture display frame that I already had. You could also tuck these in an advent calendar, have your Elf on the Shelf bring them, pull a random card each day–the ideas are endless! There is a color version, as well as a black and white version that can be printed on any color paper (that is what you see in the pictures below!)

Click here to download the kindness cards!

If you download the kindness cards, you will see that I also included printable numbers if you want to assign the tasks to a specific day, or complete them in a specific order.

Again, we would love to complete this TOGETHER- so please join us! If you decide to post any pictures on Instagram, please tag us at @letsliveandlearn and @theresashoeforthat and use the hashtag #kindnessforkids. We can’t wait to see the kindness that you spread!

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