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January 25, 2016

Make Your Kids Smile with Morning Love Notes

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Winter mornings are dark and cold, even down here in Florida! It’s hard to force myself out of bed in the morning and the kids are struggling too. As part of the 100 Acts of Kindness Project I decided to try and give them something to smile about when they wake up so I’ve been leaving morning love notes for them on their doors.

Leave a love note for your child each morning! Such a sweet act of kindness for parents!

Morning Love Notes

It’s basically the same idea as “heart attacking” someone where you write sweet things on hearts and put them all over someone’s door when they are not there. Instead of doing it all at once I was inspired by a post a friend shared on Facebook to do one each day.

So every morning until Valentine’s Day when the kids wake up they can check their door to see what new thing I love about them I’ve added. I am doing different ones each day on each of my kids’ doors to make it feel more personal. Even if they are all good friends, I am not sharing that on the same day for all.

Supplies:

  • construction paper
  • scissors
  • markers
  • tape

It’s not too late to start this at your house too! Just cut a heart shape out of construction paper and write something you love about your child (or partner) on it and tape it to their door or wall while they are sleeping. It’s just a sweet way to make your kids smile!

Kindness Challenge #2

This week Kristina from Toddler Approved has a super fun and super cute kindness challenge for you! For those of you new to the 100 Acts of Kindness Challenge each participant/family/class is asked to complete 100 acts of kindness by Valentine’s Day and participate in a weekly kindness challenge each Monday. It’s never to late to join in!

Click here to see this week’s challenge on Toddler Approved –>> Kindness Challenge #2

A sweet Valentine's Day kindness tradition to start with kids!

Don’t forget to join our 100 Acts of Kindness Challenge Facebook group to swap ideas and collaborate with other people!

Also, make sure to follow the hashtag #100actsofkindness on Instagram and check out some of the activities we share over there too. I’m @coffeeandcrayon and Kristina is @kristinatoddlerapproved.

I was sick all last week so didn’t make it to the computer as much as I would have liked. This week I will have lots of fun things to share! I can’t wait to see what acts of kindness you do too!

More Kindness Ideas to Inspire You

  • 100 Acts of Kindness for Kids free printable
  • printable postcards for seniors from Sunny Day Family
  • sweet kindness idea for grandparents from Amy Pessolano
  • mail “winter” to a friend from Kitchen Floor Crafts
  • printable gift boxes kids can color and fill from Moms and Crafters
  • traveling heart crafts from Kids Stuff World

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. Blair says

    January 26, 2016 at 2:44 pm

    So cute! I love this idea! My boys would love it, too. 🙂

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  2. Marnie says

    January 27, 2016 at 1:32 pm

    Love this concept! We do our “I Love You Because” jar in the same spirit but I dig the real time of this idea! 🙂 ~ Marnie

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  3. Lisa says

    March 14, 2016 at 9:09 am

    Ok, I’m reading this in March, so going to do something with easter eggs. Thank you for the idea. It was wonderful. So doing this next year. Already put on my calendar so I do not forget, love Google calendar. Many blessings to you and your family.
    Lisa

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