We love counting down to Christmas with 24 Random Acts of Christmas Kindness and know you do too!
Doing daily acts of kindness in December has been a wonderful way to celebrate everything that is good about the holiday season. This year we created a free printable Random Acts of Kindness Advent Calendar and couldn’t stop there.
We’ve partnered with Carli of Dimple Prints to create a free printable Random Acts of Kindness Countdown Chain!
For those of you that want to create your own RACK countdown, or would like your kindness to be a little more random, Carli has created a free printable with 40 different acts of kindness chain links you can print and use!
My kids were crazy excited to see the kindness chain links start to come out of the printer! They are so bright and cheery!
Carli included all 24 Random Acts of Christmas Kindness from our RACK advent calendar so the kids have them cut and ready to go for next week.
Random Acts of Christmas Kindness Chain
- Random Acts of Kindness Paperchain
- white cardstock
- scissors or paper cutter
- stapler or double sided tape
- jar (optional)
I think the best part about this printable RACK countdown chain is that you can use it anyway you want!
You can go through and pick out the RACKs you want to do with your family this year and put together the chain yourself. Then each day the kids can take a link off the chain to see which act of kindness they are doing to do.
Or you can let the kids choose which RACKS they want to do this year and put them all in a jar. Then every time your family does an act of kindness you can add a link to the chain. It’s such a fun way to watch your kindness grow!
Or you can cut the chain links apart and put them all in jar or bowl together. Then each day you can randomly pick a strip to do–I know how some of you really like to keep your RACKs random! You may want to have some of the supplies you may need prepped before you start to make random acts easier to do
Regardless of how you are going to organize your Random Acts of Christmas Kindness this year we would love to see what you do!
Each day in December I will be sharing special RACK graphics to go along with my Random Acts of Christmas Kindness Advent Calendar on the Coffee Cups and Crayons Facebook page so people can share them with their friends and show others the fun things their family did that day.
Even if you don’t do 24 or don’t follow along with the ones we are doing that day we would still love you to share what you are doing. It’s a great way to cheer each other on and develop a community of kindness this holiday season!
DOWNLOAD THE CHRISTMAS KINDNESS COUNTDOWN CHAIN NOW!
Here’s a sneak peek of one of the pages…so cute right???
We were having a rough day today. We were supposed to take a Santa Train ride. I had been hyping it up to my almost-2 for weeks now and I had out-of-towns guests that came just for the occasion. Late the previous night we received a phone call that our ride had been canceled and I tried to quickly come up with a back-up plan.
Since was daughter was asking for Santa, hot cocoa, and a choo-choo, I knew our local mall could deliver. I pre-paid fora a Fast Pass so we wouldn’t have to wait in line to see Santa and gathered up our grumbling bunch. We got a quick picture but had to wait 30 minutes until the train opened. My dad suggested letting my daughter ride one of the coin-operated cars in the meantime.
As we were trying to figure out how much it cost, I saw a ziplock bag taped to the slot. There was a note that said we’d been RACK’d, candy, and 3 quarters to pay for my little girl’s ride! I just have to say that the gloomy mood our party had been caring around was immediately lifted and changed our outlooks for the rest of the day.
The note listed the website on the bottom, so I knew I needed to thank you for doing this. And of course, I am going to have my little girl help me do some RACKs in return!
Oh how lovely!!!!! Thank you so much for sharing with us!!!! Isn’t it amazing how a little thing can really change your day! I’m so happy to hear you are going to spread some kindness too!
Yesterday after shopping for groceries in Dexter, MI. I saw a note on my car. Thinking it was just another advertisement, I was shocked when it was a candy cane with a note I’d been “Rack’d” counting down 24 days to Christmas with a random act of kindness. It made my day! THANK YOU, what a lovely thing to do! If only all of us could learn to do random acts of kindness to each other what an amazing world this would be.
Woo hoo!!!!
Thank you so much!!!
………..the chain is a great idea………
So, I have decided to make/print 24 chains for each of my family members and mail it to them around Thanksgiving time so they have it to start on December 1st. I’ll mail them flat and they can have a family time of reading them, taping them, making plans for their RACK-ing.
By the way, every Thanksgiving, we have a ‘Thankful Jar’ with a pen and slips of paper by it… during week before dinner as well as day of, we can write things we are thankful for on slips of paper, fold up, put in jar. We have had some great fun reading these around the dinner table on Thanksgiving day……some are sweet, some are hilarious and it has made the day extra special for our family.
Oh I ADORE that idea Janet! 🙂
What a great thing you are doing. Blessings to you.
I think you have great ideas. I would love to be able to get emails all the time. Keep up the good work 🙂
Hi! We want to make our own acts of kindness. Would you mind sharing the template so we could write our own? My son loves the colorful polka dot pattern!
I tried to print the RACK chain but kept getting “Error. Page not found.” Is it still available?
Oh no! Let me ask her!
Pat stay tuned! We are working on getting it back up for you!!!!!
She has shut down her site but was kind enough to share the printables here on Coffee Cups and Crayons! The links to download are now above in the post. 🙂
Thanks for letting know!
Hello and All Things Joyous to You!
I wanted to reach and let you know the impact of the RAK chain and calendar. My kiddo was born in 2013. I came across your blog in 2016 when I was muddling over the idea of Elf on The Shelf. My child’s birthday is December 13th and I wanted to ensure they grow up with gratitude and grace. I combined the idea of an Elf that appears Dec.1 doing silly things with the beautiful RAK ideas on your site. December 1st, 2016 saw the arrival of Edward the Kindness Elf. Each day, he is in a new hiding spot with a message and 1 RAK to be performed. My human turns 11 this week and Edward is still a part of our traditions. This year, Edward asked my child to come up with 11 ideas and the elf would provide the rest. Thank you! It is a beautiful tradition and it carries through in how my human interacts with the world. It is a gift beyond measure!
Wow! The power of kindness! I love how you are celebrating with kindness, especially having him come up with the first 11. I love it!