This is our third year counting down to Christmas with 24 Random Acts of Christmas and I cannot wait for December to get here!
It has been such a great way for our family to stop in the midst of the crazy holiday season and intentionally do good in our family, our community and our world. To say that it’s been a success for us is an understatement. We highly recommend a kindness advent calendar as a way to slowdown, connect, and do good this Christmas.
So many people joined in with our 24 days of Random Acts of Christmas Kindness that I wanted to create something that would make it even easier do to one act of kindness a day and came up with a free printable Random Acts of Christmas Kindness Advent Calendar!
DOWNLOAD HERE–>> Random Acts of Christmas Kindness Printable Calendar for Kids!
Looking for the 2017 version? The link is below!
Random Acts of Christmas Kindness
Some of the acts of kindness on the calendar are self-explanatory but some you may have never heard of before–like candy cane bombing! I want to make this as simple as possible so here are links and information that may be helpful!
- Make a Card for a Soldier
- Send a Hug to someone you love
- Give a Hug Coupon
- Leave a Happy Note or Kindness Stone for someone to find
- Do Yard Work for a Neighbor
- Candy Cane Bomb a Parking Lot
- Leave a Popcorn Surprise on a DVD rental machine
Be Part of the Kindness Community
But wait! There’s more!!!!
After you download and print the Random Acts of Christmas Kindness Calendar and gather whatever supplies you need you can also follow along with daily reminders on Facebook!
I’ve created daily graphics for each of the acts of kindness on the calendar and will be sharing them on the Coffee Cups and Crayons Facebook page each morning!
I’d love for you to follow along, share with your friends and comment or post a photo to show what you have done for that day’s RACK. Let’s cheer each other on and create a community celebrating kindness this holiday season.
There is no pressure to do all 24 if that doesn’t work for you this year, even a couple is enough for a start!
I cannot wait to see the kindness we will spread this year!
2015 Kindness Calendar
The new 2015 calendar is now out and there are two calendars to choose from! I will still be sharing the daily acts of kindness on Facebook and can’t wait to see what everyone does!
Go get the 2015 version now —>> 2015 Random Acts of Christmas Kindness Calendar
Here is the 2016 version—->> 2016 Random Acts of Kindness Calendar
Here is the 2017 version—>> 2017 Random Acts of Christmas Kindness Calendar
We also have a free printable RACK countdown chain you can download and use with your kids–doing acts of kindness has never been easier!
What a wonderful idea! I can’t wait to follow along!
Thanks Jodie!!!! I can’t wait to see what you do!
We’ve made ours already, it only needs to be filled in. I’m soooo happy there are more of us! Good luck 🙂
Yay!!!!! The first year we did it we decided what to be day by day too. Have fun!!!
Brilliant! I love this idea for an advent calendar!
Thanks Ana!!!
Love this! I’ll print it out and put it on my fridge- I can’t wait until candy cane bombing day!
YAY!!! Make sure to wear your best ninja outfit!
Awesome!! You saved my life. LOL! My son has to do RACK for a grade every week and I was running out of ideas. Thanks!!!
HA! I have to say I ADORE the idea of that as an assignment!!! What cool teachers! We are kindness obsessed here so tell him to ask if he gets stuck, although he is such a sweetie I bet he does hundreds without even noticing. 🙂
This is such a great idea that I shared it on Facebook. My pastor saw it and she’d like me to make copies to pass out at church on November 30. Is that all right?
Absolutely!!!!! The more people doing acts of kindness the better!!! I can’t wait to see what you all do!
My book, “Embracing a Spirit of Giving,” chronicles my own family’s adventures when I designed a 25-day giving countdown 5 years ago. Based on the concept of an advent calendar, we daily shared love in simple ways as we counted down to Christmas morning. Your post made me so happy when a friend shared the calendar via Facebook! We’re gearing up for our countdown too! Thank you for sharing kindness! Blessings! ~Kelly
Oh how wonderful Kelly!!!!!! It was a very profound experience for our family the first year we did it too and we’ve looked forward to it every year.
{Kathy} This is just fantastic. Sharing it on our wall!!!!
I love this idea. Thank you so much for sharing!
YEAH! Can’t wait to do this with my kids!!! Thank you for sharing!
THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS … IT IS SUCH A BEAUTIFUL WAY TO TELL THE WORLD THAT THEY ARE LOVED…. AM GONNA DO THIS WITH MY 3 YEAR OLD.. BE BLESSED …
I just stumbled across your blog and love it. I plan to use your RACK with my own girls and my behavioral Sped class. Kindness can change lives, I can not find your link to print out your RACK’d cards. Is this something you would be willing to share?
Thank you! Keep spreading the love.
Hilary I wasn’t as fancy to make a download back then! You can absolutely print them. People were just right clicking on them and saving to their computer and printing out. If you have trouble email me megan.sheakoski@gmail.com and I’ll send it to you as an attachment!
LOVE THIS! Just this fall I was considering how my kids have “outgrown” some of our traditions and are so busy with their teen lives. I see some things in this calendar that might refresh some old traditions and bring a little desire to participate back in!
YAY!!!! I’m excited you like it!
Awesome!!!
Love this idea!!! I will sending your link out to my Live Daily Gratitude subscribers on Dec 1st. Thanks for this amazing idea!!!
Thank you Julie!!!!!!
Hi Megan – LOVE your list! I’ve shared it on my What’s Under Your Cape? FB page and tweeted it out! Cape up and crusade on!! Barbara
Thanks so much Barbara!!!
I have posted on my blog about this wonderful idea! Thank you for sharing. I hope lots of others join as well! 🙂
YAY! Thanks Stephanie!
Love this! I’ll print it out and put it on my board- I can’t wait until candy cane bombing day!
Lovely,
Helena
Do you have a version of the Random Acts of Christmas Kindness that you are able to edit?
We love this Random Acts of Kindness advent calendar and everyone in the family will be participating this year. If I can figure it out we plan to add a link on our sidebar to help spread the word! Thanks for the awesome idea and the calendar!
I’m so happy to hear you love it!!!! Thank you and have fun!!!
This is really awesome I can’t wait to give it a try but I’m Hanna make my own calendar filled with service projects this will be amazing
Awesome!!!
OH MY WORD!! I love this!!!! I love the giving idea, everyday. What a great way to truly capture the spirit of the this season! I have gone and followed you personally on FB, and am doing a blog post about this as well. Awesome job! This will become our new December tradition.
YAY!!!! You are going to love it!!!!
LOVE this post! Had to share it on my FB page and it went viral. Most interaction I’ve had in a while. Thank you so much for the great post! I LOVE RACK!
Woo hoo!!!!!!
i can not get the calendar to print?
Do you have Adobe Acrobat downloaded on your computer? It’s a PDF so you need to open it in Adobe first. Let me know if that helps!
Hi Megan, this is a wonderful post! My church participates in Outrageous Christmas every year where we are encouraged to live outrageously with kindness through the month of December. I love the idea of teaching our children the value of kindness during this season that is typically so full of wants of our own. On my blog I am writing a round-up of my top ten advent activities, and plan to link back to your post. I would love to include your picture, if it is alright with you! Again, thank you so much for sharing, I love this!
Great ideas, I decided to write a post about random acts of kindness and I put a link in the post to this page.
I love the idea of making it into a chain so the kids can better visualize the count down but also see what good deeds they have coming up.
Me too Trish!
I already do some of these things thruout the year. Don’t know if I can do all of them in one month. whew…that’s a lot of kindness to spread around! lol. when i go to walmart, i drop a few handfulls of rice on the ground for the birds. i give hugs, i make lunch or coffee for someone, i call someone that needs cheering up…etc. it always makes me feel good to do something nice for someone else.
Love this!! Thank you so much 🙂
Thanks for this list! I printed off the chain printables, but instead of making a chain, our elf is bringing one of the slips of paper, plus the “supplies” needed for that task every day. For example, today’s task is “Feed the Birds”. Our elf set up some bird seed in a bowl in front of a bunch of stuffed Angry Birds, with the slip of paper in front. So when the kids get home from school, they can take the bowl outside and feed the birds! Yesterday the elf left paper, crayons, and markers to make letters to soldiers. This way I (I mean, the elf!) can decide which task will be easiest that day depending on what we have going on!
Oh Kylie I LOVE that so much!!!!!!!!!!!
Do you have a picture you’d let me share of your set-up on FB?
Just posted a picture to your FB page! Share away!
Thank YOU!!!!!!
Our family loves to do RACK’s! Thanks for sharing your calender! Great ideas! Merry Christmas!
A great idea… even though my ‘boys’ are 40 and 35 respectively they have kids of their own and I can ‘randomly’ surprise them with some of the things on here. I applaud you for coming up with the whole bundle of ideas and fun, thanks for the sharing!
Paul
That’s wonderful! Thank you!!!
Hi Megan! We made our Random Acts of Kindness Advent Tree Calendar and my boys (age 5 and 3) are really into it! It’s so much fun already and we’re only on Day 4!! Thank you for the awesome idea! I’ll post a picture on my RainbowRice (a product I make and sell) FB page so you can check it out!
Thank you so much for your Random Acts of Christmas Kindness!! On Day 2 we giggled at the possibility of someone finding one dollar in quarters in the drink refrigerator at a local grocery store. We did Day 4 yesterday due to a timing issue and my 10 year old daughter decided that after Christmas we are going to continue with RAK. She said that each week we should always pick up garbage in the neighborhood and decide on another RAK to do for the week. Thank you for the inspiration and child appropriate ideas that cause them to look outside of themselves!!
That’s awesome!!!!
I love your calendar! I am dong RAKS with my boys and students. I wrote a blog post about it and started a linky party. I would love if you would link up!
http://www.learningahoy.com/2014/12/random-acts-of-kindness.html
Caitlin
Hello,
My daughter and I love the calendar and card for Random Acts of Kindness. We would like to ask your permission to promote this in our community using facebook as well as my daughter’s Junior Miss Title. We believe in giving back to our community and overall kindness to everyone. We would include your blog link with any promotion we do. Thank you for your consideration.
Hi Katie! Could you email me? It makes it easier to chat! megan.sheakoski(at)gmail(dot)com
Thank you so much for creating this! What a perfect thing for the season of giving! Looking forward to next year’s calendar 🙂
This year’s is already up!!!! If you click on the link for the 2015 calendar you can print it and get started. 🙂
Will you have one up for 2016???
Yes! I do! https://www.coffeecupsandcrayons.com/random-acts-of-christmas-kindness-advent-calendar/ I need to add it to this post too!
Do you have a 2018 version of the calendar?
Yes! Click on the 2017 link. I have been updating that post to make it easier. I’ll add it to this one later!
Will there be a 2019 Random Acts of Kindness calendar?
Thank you! I love this idea and used it with my kids in 2017!
Found the 2019 page..thank you!!
YAY!!!!!!!
There are no words that can express my thanks to you. If words could be hugs I would send you pages. Thank you for this amazing post. We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives. Once Again Thank You So Much!
SO happy you joined in!
OH MY WORD!! I love this!!!! I love the giving idea, everyday. What a great way to truly capture the spirit of the this season! I have gone and followed you personally on FB, and am doing a blog post about this as well. Awesome job! This will become our new December tradition.