Family Activities
Simple ways to practice caring and giving through everyday actions at home.
Elementary
Grades K–5
Kindness Detective
Look for someone who may need help or encouragement. Let your child choose one caring action, such as making a card, sharing a kind word, or helping at home.
Give Your Time
Choose one way to give time this week—read to a younger child, help with a family task, call someone who may feel lonely, or spend time helping a neighbor.
Family Giving Basket
Invite each family member to contribute one gently used book, toy, coat, or household item. Choose a local organization and donate the items together.
Middle School
Grades 6–8
Needs Around Us
Notice one need at home, school, or in the community. Discuss a safe, realistic way your family can help and choose one action to complete together.
Share a Strength
Identify something each person does well. Use one of those strengths to help someone else through tutoring, organizing, creating, listening, or encouragement.
Kindness Without Credit
Complete one caring action without expecting attention or praise. Later, talk about how the action may have helped someone and how it made you feel.
High School
Grades 9–12
Cause to Action
Choose a person, issue, or community need you care about. Learn more about it and identify one realistic action you can take this month.
Skills That Serve
Use a personal skill to benefit someone else. Consider tutoring, mentoring, helping with technology, volunteering, creating something useful, or sharing encouragement.
Make a Giving Plan
Decide whether you can give time, attention, skills, resources, or your voice. Schedule one specific action and reflect afterward on the difference it made.