What to Expect at Meetings
At each meeting, we will discuss with the students what they think it means to be kind and how they can show kindness in their every day lives. After that, the students will take these ideas and what we discuss about kindness and use them to complete a project or play a game. There will be a new project or game at each meeting. After each meeting, the students will have a mission to complete: do as many random acts of kindness as possible. Then, at the next meeting, they will come back and report on those random acts and we will discuss how each act demonstrated kindness. Below is a list of some of the projects the students have already completed or are going to complete at their next meeting.
Kindness Bookmarks
At the first meeting, students colored bookmarks that had kind quotes on them. Then, they went around the school and placed them on desks so that students would have something to brighten their day the next morning. In some schools, every single desk got a bookmark. In others, third through fourth got bookmarks and more will be made to fill the rest of the desks.
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Partnering with the KLamath Purple Hands Project
The Kindness Clubs have recently partnered with the wonderful Klamath Purple Hands Project to complete several projects and activities. Michael Kaibel, director of the project, accompanied the Kindness Clubs to their second trip to the Humane Society where children got to read to the animals. Then, he brought “Pet Valentine’s” to a Stearns Kindness Club meeting. The kids had fun pasting pictures of pets from the Humane Society onto purple pieces of paper to be hung up at the local library. Hopefully, these "Pet Valentine's" will help the animals get adopted. Members at the Stearns meetings also got to meet Xander the Wonder Dog, who has a very inspirational story.
The Klamath Purple Hands Project is an inspirational and wonderful organization and we are very pleased to be working with them. We can’t wait to see what we accomplish together in the future!
Kindness Murals
At the second meeting, students started creating a "kindness mural" that will be hung up in the schools when they are completed. Each student took one of their random acts of kindness that they did and drew a picture of it. Then, the words "What Kindness Looks Like To Me" were colored as well, and will be in the center of all the students' drawings when they are hung up on the wall.
Kindness Bags
A member of Henley's Kindness Club suggested that "kindness bags" be made to give out to people who looked like they needed something warm to wear during the winter weather. Students brought in personal hygiene items such as tooth brushes and soap, along with the winter clothes, and put them together in bags. Students also made uplifting notes to put in the bags. Then, they took these bags to keep in their cars to hand out to people they pass by that look like they could use a pick-me-up.
