Congratulations to the winners of our November Kindness Challenge Give-A-Way! @FairviewElement, and the students, staff, and teachers at Fairview Elementary School in Richmond, IN. We are excited to have you bring the 21 Day Kindness Challenge: School Edition to your campus. Also, a BIG thank you to all of you who participated in November's Kindness Give-A-Way! Thank you for continually supporting and encouraging our efforts to empower youth to change their world through kindness. 

Pushing Pause on Our Kindness Give-A-Way Prize!
Considering December and January are extremely busy for everyone, our team has decided to push pause on our monthly give-a-way prizes. We will resume our awards on February 1, 2019. That said,  we are still going to continue our daily social media posts and challenges you to keep spread kindness at your school and in your local community. 

Sneak-Peek Into Your Kindness Week!
Start your week off by connecting to your crafty side and end the week by giving love to your school library!  Below you will find a daily list of kind things to do, and I list of positive words for you to use when creating your kindness rock. 

Are you stuffed to the brim with turkey, stuffing, and pumpkin pie? We hope you are enjoying your much needed holiday break. And we hope you were able to show your gratitude to your family, friends, and community. We'd love to hear about some of the things you did, post some of your gratitude activities to our blog or on Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram - use #iChoose2BeKind!

Perhaps you are taking advantage of your time off and you are doing some recruiting to help your school win the 21 Day Kindness Challenge November prize?!? :) There isn't much time left but, nothing is impossible - it can happen!

Below you will find activities for the upcoming Kindness Give-A-Way Challenge week of 11.26 - 11.30. You will start the week off with creating kindness cutie catchers/paper kindness fortune tellers and complete the week by donating shoes to a wonderful organization called soles4soles.com. 

Instructions for Monday's Kindness Activity:
For creating your kindness cutie catcher/fortune teller, you can either follow the directions on the Vintage Toy Blog, download a template, or make your own! This activity is super easy, fun, and interactive. Your students will really have fun sharing kindness. 

Ideas on what to write inside:

• Acts of kindness someone has to do
• Kind words 
• Kindness quotes 
• Names of famous kind people 

How-To Image from Vintage Toy Blog

​​Oh my goodness! Thanksgiving is already next week. We know that some schools take the entire week off while others just take a few days off. And because of this, we've put together a week full of delicious fun and simple kind acts that you can do at school, with your family, or in your community. Be sure to still tag your school and use the #iChoose2BeKind hashtag to earn your kindness points. 

​Below you will find our kindness challenge activities for you and your school community to complete for the week of 11.19-11.23. Have fun spreading kindness! 

How can we start each day with a grateful heart? How do we teach our students, children, and ourselves to be grateful for what we have? Having an attitude of gratitude shifts our focus from what we lack in life to appreciating what we presently have in our lives. 

Make showing gratitude extra special, by offering extra credit points for doing one or more of the following over the Thanksgiving break (for credit, ask them to take a picture of themselves doing "the act" and ask them to email it to you before returning to school). 

1. Clean up after Thanksgiving dinner.
   
2. Bake a pie and bring it to a neighbor with a note that says we are so grateful you're our neighbor.
   
3. Put hidden notes of gratitude under each place setting.
   
4. Put together a powerpoint presentation of what they appreciate about their family and ask them to show it at their Thanksgiving dinner.
   
5. Write in a daily gratitude journal - you can download a printable copy here.
   
6. Volunteer at local a homeless shelter or soup kitchen on Thanksgiving Day.
   
7. Encourage them to brainstorm a list of people in their neighborhood that are having a hard time making ends meet. Ask them to put together a bag of food and anonymously deliver it to them.
   
8. Create a video presentation on what they are grateful for and present it to the class.
   
9. Host a Friendsgiving lunch or dinner.  
   
10. Bring a pie or plate of cookies to a local hospital, fire station, police station, or elderly home. 

As you may know, tomorrow is World Kindness Day. We've put together a few resources and activities to help you spread kindness. 
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A Simple Way to Generate Kindness
For easy quick ideas, you can refer to our guest blog post by Shari's Berries, Random Acts of Kindness Generator. This is a fun and easy tool that will give you ideas for any situation. 

10 Simple Acts of Kindness You Can Do Tomorrow 

1. Bring a fresh batch of cookies to school and randomly pass them out
2. Write thank you cards for the bus drivers, custodian, front office staff, etc. 
3. Bring someone their favorite latte 
4. Take time out of your day to clean up the school grounds 
5. Pass out letters of gratitude with a treat to parents in the drop-off/pick-up car line
6. Tell someone how much you appreciate them
7. Let others go before you in line (lunch, bus, entering the class, etc.)
8. Give away your favorite book to someone at school  
9. Bring a bouquet of flowers or balloons and randomly give them away
10. Volunteer to help clean up a classroom after school 

Three Kindness Projects that Will Inspire Your Entire School 

1. How do you make kindness go viral on your campus?
2. {Printable Poster} Promote Kindness on Your Campus
3. ​Do This Kindness Activity With Your Entire School Community

It is such a big month for appreciation and gratitude! Dominica kicks the month off with Community Service Day. The United States honors its Veterans on November 11 and follows that up with a Thanksgiving celebration. On November 13, 2018, the world celebrates World Kindness Day followed by Giving Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2018. That is just the tip of the iceberg.

What does all this kindness and gratitude inspire you to do? Well, spread more kindness of course! Don't hold anything back this month, go for the gold! Look beyond the obvious and really see situations and the people around you. Listen with your eyes and hear with your heart. Everyone deserves a little kindness. Be Intentional! Be a Warrior! Be Kind! 

Below you will find your Kindness Give-A-Way challenge assignments for the week of November 12- 16. Have fun, play along, tell us about it and good luck! 

Can you believe it is November already?!? We are so excited about starting a new Kindness Give-A-Way this month! Our October Kindness Give-A-Way was so amazing! We are pumped about spreading more kindness via social media for the month of November. 

As you may know, November 1 is the start of a NEW Kindness Give-A-Away. Find out more details about our November Kindness prize. We hope you, your students, your school community, and your larger community join us in spreading kindness this month. You can follow our Kindness Give-A-Way using our hashtag #iChoose2BeKind.

Below you will find an info-graph for this week's upcoming kindness challenges. Let us know if you have any questions. We are grateful for ALL of your continual support and encouragement.