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Random Acts of Christmas Kindness Printable Advent Calendar

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!

Free Printable RACK Advent Calendar for Kids! Spread some kindness this Christmas!

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!

Free Printable Random Acts of Christmas Kindness Calendar for Kids!

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!

Day 1 Random Acts of Christmas Kindness Advent Calendar

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!Free Printable Random Acts of Christmas Kindness Countdown Chain for Kids!

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.

Comments

    • Megan Sheakoski says

      November 18, 2014 at 8:58 pm

      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. 🙂

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  6. Nancy says

    November 18, 2014 at 5:07 pm

    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?

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  7. Kelly says

    November 19, 2014 at 5:03 am

    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

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  11. rEBECCA FERNANDES says

    November 19, 2014 at 9:50 am

    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 …

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  12. Hilary says

    November 20, 2014 at 7:58 am

    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.

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  13. Michelle says

    November 20, 2014 at 10:11 am

    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!

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  20. Kristina and Millie says

    November 26, 2014 at 11:10 pm

    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!

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  21. Treasure wood says

    November 28, 2014 at 10:08 pm

    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

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  22. HomeschoolingMama says

    November 28, 2014 at 10:58 pm

    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.

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  23. Cyndie says

    November 28, 2014 at 11:58 pm

    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!

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  25. Kaylene says

    November 30, 2014 at 10:53 pm

    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!

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  28. Mimi says

    December 1, 2014 at 2:25 pm

    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.

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  30. Kylie says

    December 2, 2014 at 10:06 am

    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!

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  32. Paul Reynolds says

    December 4, 2014 at 8:37 am

    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

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  33. Elise says

    December 4, 2014 at 10:19 am

    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!

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  34. Hillary Allion says

    December 4, 2014 at 7:26 pm

    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!!

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  36. Katie Jo Berna says

    November 23, 2015 at 12:24 am

    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.

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  37. Lauren Kapusta says

    December 2, 2015 at 1:00 am

    Thank you so much for creating this! What a perfect thing for the season of giving! Looking forward to next year’s calendar 🙂

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