An Advent of Kindness

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We totally indulge in chocolate advent calendars at our house – in fact, this year each of our 3 girls has her own chocolate calendar to open each morning plus the decadent truffle filled Aldi calendar that my husband purchased on a whim – but several years ago I scored a fabric advent calendar with pockets at an after-Christmas sale. At first I wrote advent activities to do around the holidays for each pocket such as bake cookies, drive around the neighborhood and see holiday lights, watch a holiday movie – but after several nights when we simply couldn’t get to that particular advent activity, I decided to change it up a bit and make a list of advent kindness activities. My whole family loves it and I feel like it epitomizes the season of advent too.

I shared the calendar on Instagram recently and several people asked me about it – so today I’m sharing our advent kindness activities if you’d like to use them…or create your own with these as inspiration. In true mom-of-three-style, I simply leave the small notes in the calendar when I store it after the holidays and re-use them year after year. The girls love reading the new activity each morning and talking about if they succeeded at dinner each night! Be sure to check out #13 – it is my favorite!

Happy Holidays and cheers to kindness!

1. Compliment someone today
2. Write a thank you note to someone who helps you
3. Hug someone
4. Make a list of things you’re thankful for
5. Make someone laugh
6. Pick up a piece of litter today
7. Ask your teacher how you can help today
8. Collect loose change and donate it
9. Make a card for a school staff member
10. Introduce yourself to someone new
11. Let someone get in line ahead of you
12. Tell someone all the reasons you like them
13. Clean up a mess you didn’t make
14. Make a card for the mail person
15. Perform a random act of kindness today
16. Pick a few of your toys to donate to a charity
17. Hold the door open for someone
18. Do an extra chore at home
19. Tape a kind & bright note to a car window for everyone to see
20. Donate books to your school or local library
21. Write a nice sidewalk message with chalk (or in the snow)
22. Smile at everyone you see today
23. Tell a stranger to have a nice day
24. Compliment one of your siblings
25. Call a long-distance relative

Here’s a printable of “An Advent of Kindness” with a couple of blank lines too. You can put them in envelopes, pockets or just fold them and put them in a bowl to open each morning in December!