24 tiny kind acts, one for each day from 1 to 24 December. Print it, stick it on the fridge and tick a box a day. For ages 4 to 8.
From the book Aiza and the Kindest Gift
Aiza and the Kindest Gift is a Christmas picture book for ages 5 to 8. Aiza wants the biggest present under the tree, until she notices her elderly neighbour spending Christmas alone and makes him a gift by hand. The calendar is one of the activity pages at the back of the book, along with a Nope-or-Yet quiz, a paper star garland craft and colouring pages.
Paperback on AmazonKindle editionSmall, concrete acts work best for ages 4 to 8: make someone a card, help bake cookies for a neighbour, call a relative who lives far away, feed the birds, leave a kind note, give away a toy you no longer use and visit someone who is alone. This calendar gives one for each day from 1 to 24 December.
Instead of a chocolate or a toy behind each door, every day from 1 to 24 December has one small kind act. Your child does the act, ticks the box and, at bedtime, you talk about how it felt and how the other person might have felt.
It was written for children aged 4 to 8. Younger children can do the acts with a grown-up, and 7 and 8 year olds can choose and plan their own.
Yes. Print this page at home on A4 or US Letter paper. It comes from the picture book Aiza and the Kindest Gift by Imran Munawar.
Let them experience it: have your child make one gift by hand and hand it over themselves, then talk about the other person's reaction. Name feelings like jealousy without judging them, and keep the acts small and daily so kindness becomes a habit, not a one-off.