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April 19, 2015

Printable Random Acts of Kindness Calendars

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In our family we believe that acts of kindness are important. A couple years ago we started counting down to Christmas with 24 random acts of kindness and I was blown away by just how good the experience was. Since then kindness has been a big focus and if you ask my kids they will tell you that our family is kindness-y!

I’ve found that focusing on kindness and intentionally doing random acts of kindness as a family teaches the kids more than just to be nice. Viewing yourself as a kind person is empowering and helps kids believe that they are problem solvers and can make a difference.

Free Printable Summer Kindness Calendars for Kids!

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We’ve created a summer’s worth of kindness for you and your kids to do this year using these free printable random acts of kindness calendars. Some of the acts of kindness are super simple and some are more involved, but all are intended to make kindness a habit in your home, classroom, or camp.

That being said unless you plan ahead it may be difficult to do each of the acts of kindness on the assigned day. Don’t let that stop you! No one says you have to go in order (even me and I wrote them!) You can hang them up and use stickers or Do A Dot Art Markers to mark them off as you complete them.

Random Acts of Kindness Calendars for Summer

Download your free printable summer kindness calendars!

  • June 2015 Kindness Calendar
  • July 2015 Kindness Calendar
  • August 2015 Kindness Calendar

Before you start doing daily acts of kindness print out the calendars and talk about what you are going to do with your kids. Ask them what being kind means and talk about why it’s important.

Then talk it up! Getting ready to do a kindness challenge is fun. Point out acts of kindness you see and ask them which kindness acts they want to do. Kindness itself is very motivating, but if you want to offer rewards for the month go for it!

RAKs for Kids! Free Printable Summer Kindness Calendars...one for each month!

There are no rules when it comes to being more kind so make sure being kind adds to your life, not stresses you out. I think you’ll find as you start being more intentional about it that there are more daily kindness opportunities than you realize. Sometimes a hug or a kind word make a big difference.

All of the acts of kindness on the RAK calendars are on our 100 Acts of Kindness for Kids list. If you have a question about what one of the acts of kindness is or want more ideas click on the photo below for the whole list with links to further instructions!

100 Acts of Kindness for Kids!!! Free printable in post!

So who’s in??? Comment below with how you plan to use the summer kindness calendars with your kids. Let’s share ideas with each other!

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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  1. LEanne says

    April 20, 2015 at 10:44 am

    Love this! I’ll be joining when my Little is older!

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    • Megan Sheakoski says

      April 20, 2015 at 11:16 am

      YAY!

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  2. Susan Buck says

    November 10, 2015 at 11:56 am

    I am a school counselor in a rural, public K-8 school in Chester, NH. I just stumbled upon your Blog and the 24 days of kindness calendar you created last year. I would LOVE to promote this in our school this holiday season. Will you be creating a calendar for 2015?

    Thank you,
    Susan Buck
    Chester Academy
    22 Murphy Drive
    Chester, NH 03036
    603-887-3621 x147

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    • Megan Sheakoski says

      November 11, 2015 at 10:02 am

      I am finishing writing the post RIGHT NOW!!!! I’m so excited to share–it will be live as soon as I finish! 🙂 🙂 🙂

      Reply
  3. Carrie Zollman says

    May 5, 2016 at 10:34 am

    Hello….love the Kindness Calendars and would like to give them to my Cadettes (middle schoolers in Girl Scouts), will you be doing 2016 calendars by chance?

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    • Megan Sheakoski says

      May 11, 2016 at 2:57 pm

      Yes! Definitely before June starts–working on them now! 🙂

      Reply

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