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January 11, 2016

Join the 100 Acts of Kindness Challenge!

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Kindness matters. A lot.

It can change your day, make you feel loved, inspire goodness and shift your outlook on life. We do 24 acts of kindness each December and one of our most popular activities is candy cane bombing.

You leave candy canes and little kindness cards on people’s windshields for them to find. It’s super fun for kids because they feel like little kindness ninjas. You can even hide in your car and watch people smile when they find the candy canes. Candy cane bombing makes the kids feel empowered and excited and is tons of fun.

But that’s not the end of the story. Every year throughout the month of December I get emails from people who have found candy canes and notes on their windshields and were hugely impacted. People who were having a bad day or just received terrible news who felt so much less alone in the world after receiving a simple candy cane. Kindness matters.

Join the 100 Acts of Kindness Challenge!!! Do 100 acts of kindness with your family, class, scout group or church. We have tons of resources including free printable RAK'd cards in the post!

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Can you imagine being a kid and knowing your act of kindness meant so much? To someone you don’t even know?It’s deeply empowering and inspiring. It can change your life to view yourself as someone who can make a difference.

That’s why I am just thrilled to be partnering with Toddler Approved again this year for the 100 Acts of Kindness Project!

The 100 Acts of Kindness Challenge

Each year beginning on Martin Luther King Jr. Day we challenge you to do 100 acts of kindness by Valentine’s Day!

Dr. King encouraged peace and love and famously said, “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, What are you doing for others?”

So gather your family, your friends, your class, your church, your scout troop, your neighborhood, your dog and get ready to answer his question!

How does the 100 Acts of Kindness Challenge work?

It’s super duper easy–all you need to do is 100 acts of kindness!

We make it simple for you with fun weekly challenges and LOTS of resources. This year we have even created a private Facebook group for everyone who is participating. Click to join!

Join the 100 Acts of Kindness Challenge today!

Join the 100 Acts of Kindness Challenge

  1. Comment and let us know you are joining in!
  2. Join the Acts of Kindness Challenge Facebook group. We can share ideas and cheer each other on.
  3. Decide how you will keep track of your acts of kindness. Kristina has a printable chart you can use, but anything that gets you excited is awesome too. One year we used balloons to keep track of our kindness then blew them up to play with at our Valentine’s Day celebration!
  4. Complete the four weekly challenges. We will post these on Coffee Cups and Crayons and Toddler Approved each Monday.
  5. Plan a kindness celebration for February 14th. Tell us about it in the group!
  6. Follow the hashtag #100actsofkindness on Instagram and check out some of the activities we share over there too. I’m @coffeeandcrayon and Kristina is @toddlerapproved.

But that’s not all! In addition to the free printable kindness chart on Toddler Approved I’ve also designed free printable RAK’d cards you can use during the project!

Free Printable RAK'd card for the 100 Acts of Kindness Project!

Want to print these to use with your kindness acts? Keep reading to find out how!

Free Printable RAK’d Cards

There are so many ways you can use these cards. You can attach candy and leave for someone to find like in candy cane bombing, you can use them to tape change to and stick on a vending machine, you can stick on someone’s door after you’ve shoveled their driveway, there is no end to the possibilities!

How to print:

  1. Right click on the image above and save to your computer.
  2. Print at home or upload to a photo site and print as a 4×6.
  3. You can even insert the image into a Word document and print a couple at a time on a piece of cardstock.

Ready to join in? YAY! Pin this post or share it to your Facebook page to share the idea with your friends and family. It’s so much more fun to do good with others!

And remember even small acts of kindness can make a big difference! Think about how much getting a candy cane meant to someone if they took the time to look up the website, find my email and write to me.

Holding a door open, letting someone in front of you in line, buying someone’s coffee may not seem like life changers, but knowing there is someone out there who is trying to make the world a better place makes a difference. Join in and spread some kindness with us!

 

About Megan Sheakoski

Megan is the creator of Coffee Cups and Crayons, a blog full of simple fun and learning. She believes that kids’ activities don’t have to be complicated to be fun and that learning is better with play.

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Comments

  1. Suzanne Bowen says

    January 12, 2016 at 10:42 am

    I love your web site. Some retired teachers and myself have been doing Assemblies at our local elementary and Upper Elementary schools. We have based them on the book “Have You Filled A Bucket Today?” Your web site has given us ideas to use with our students. Thank you so much for sharing.

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    • Megan Sheakoski says

      January 12, 2016 at 11:27 am

      How wonderful!!!!! Such a great book for kids!

      Reply
  2. Beverly says

    January 17, 2016 at 5:05 pm

    I’m in!

    Reply
  3. LISA says

    January 19, 2016 at 3:26 am

    Family of 8 are joining. Sounds like fun and something to help teach the kids to be nice to others!

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    • Megan Sheakoski says

      January 19, 2016 at 1:32 pm

      Wooo hoooo!

      Reply
      • Nichola says

        January 21, 2016 at 1:13 pm

        We are in. My class in Bermuda is excited!

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        • Megan Sheakoski says

          January 21, 2016 at 1:31 pm

          YAY!!!!

          Reply
  4. Zoee stephan says

    January 26, 2016 at 12:09 am

    JOINING!!

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    • Megan Sheakoski says

      January 26, 2016 at 4:53 pm

      Yay!

      Reply
    • Ivey says

      May 27, 2016 at 5:09 am

      Joining too, it’s too contagious Megan 🙂

      Reply
  5. Stephany Westfall says

    February 1, 2016 at 7:11 pm

    I know I’m a little behind but I’d love to start this!

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    • Megan Sheakoski says

      February 2, 2016 at 9:19 am

      Yay! It’s never too late to join in!

      Reply
      • Mary says

        May 18, 2017 at 6:05 am

        Did you do it again this year?

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        • Megan Sheakoski says

          May 18, 2017 at 9:41 am

          Yes! Every Martin Luther King Jr Day!

          Reply
  6. CLG says

    December 23, 2016 at 4:12 pm

    Info about “100 Days of Kindness” 2017 yet? Thks!

    Reply
    • Megan Sheakoski says

      December 26, 2016 at 8:34 am

      Not yet! Although every year we kick off the 100 acts on MLK Day which in 2017 is January 16 and end on Valentine’s Day. Everyone is asked to complete 100 acts of kindness by then and we provide 4 weekly kindness challenges you can join in on!

      Reply
  7. gillian nichols says

    January 12, 2017 at 8:57 am

    Signing in for the challenge from Katy, TX!

    Reply

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