Start a Family Giving Jar
One thing we love about kindness is that it can often be done as a family. In the lead up to one or more of your family’s celebrated holidays, consider how kindness could become a family tradition. First, find an empty jar–it can be a pickle jar, a peanut butter jar, a Mason jar, or any other jar you have lying around. That’s your Giving Jar.
For the entire month leading up to your family’s holiday, make it a tradition to place a few pennies or a few dollars—anything considered spare change—in the jar at the end of each day. Then, the week before your big holiday, select someone who’s going through a tough time financially and work as a family to give the jar to them anonymously.
Supplies:
An empty, clean jar
Spare change
Approximate time to complete this adventure: 30 days, though this activity could continue all year long,
Cost: $-$$$
