Kindness Activities for Kids

Kindness activities for kids are fun and a wonderful way to teach them one of life’s most important lessons. Teaching your children to be kind is so important. Every act of kindness you show can make a meaningful difference in the lives of others. It is so important that we actively encourage our children to be Kind and to treat others ioe they would want to be treated.

“No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.”― Aesop

In this blog we have put together a few kindness activities for kids as well as suggesting a few kindness workshops which are listed on the Club Hub directory.

Create a Book of Kindnesses

This is a really lovely kindness activity for kids to promote little acts if kindness. Buy a blank notebook for your child and encourage them to write down acts of kindness. Things that other people have done for them, and kind things that they have done for others. The book may also have pictures, drawings or just have little kindness quotes in.

This can be a working project and something you can encourage your child to do each day to reflect on their day. If you have younger children then they may just want to draw, or you could print out photos.

Create a Kindness Mandala

Kindness mandalas combine creativity with meditation. Each ring in the mandala represents each step of a loving kindness meditation. This is a great kindness activity for kids as making this meditation into an art project helps make the more abstract concept of kindness “real”.

You can either draw the mandala on a piece of paper or make it with natural things you may find in your garden or a walk in the woods or even on the beach. You could make rainbows, leaf hands to represent hugs and of flowers or pebbles that look like hearts at the centre.

Instructions of making the Kindness Mandala:

Mediate

• Starting with yourself, represented by the centre of the mandala, send yourself a loving, kind wish
• Send out kind wishes to people you love, like your family and friends
• Next, send loving-kindness to people you may find a little harder to get on with in your life
• Finally, send kindness out to the entire world and even the universe

Mandala

• Within each circle, draw and/or colour what best represents each loving-kindness wish for each group
• You may want to do this activity with some mindfulness music on

Mindful Tuneups – Kindness Activities for Kids

Mindful tuneups is a fantastic web app which blends music and mindfulness together. It is so important that we are kind to ourselves. Kindness to ourselves includes self care and promoting positive self- wellbeing. Encouraging children to take that time out for themselves from an early age is vital.

Mindful tuneups allows your child to spin a fun wheel on the web app and then the child can either:

• Close your eyes and visualise – choose a soundscape then the child can close their eyes and begin to visualise what they imagine. A focus activity using our listening and visualisation skills
• Close your eyes and breathe – Your child can choose a drone sound then close their eyes and begin to focus on breathing
• Musical doodles – focus on doodling whilst listening to a piece of music created by a composer. Your child will need paper and something to draw with.
• Playful percussion – Focus on the pulse/beat of the music by either clapping hands, tapping feet, dancing, using percussion instruments – or all of the above. Or, for older children or you could simply just listen to the track and focus on the pulse of the song without any movement.
• Mindful writing – Listen to a soundscape and write a story or lyrics inspired by what you hear. A new soundscape will be released every Monday morning.

Mindful tuneups are used by schools and groups across the UK, however you can use the web app individually for your child too!

MiniMe Mindfulness – Kindness Activities for Kids

Following on from this, this is a great workshop running in Uttoxeter in July by MiniMe mindfulness and Colour Revealing. MiniMe mindfulness will work with your children teaching them about their internal superpower of kindness. They will experience a guided meditation, games, stories and a craft activity to take home. This is suitable for children aged 4-11.

Colour Revealing will work with the adults in your family to explore kindness to the body: using mindful movement and colour to support you in cultivating kindness towards yourself.

Bloom Toddler Classes – Kindness Activities for Kids

One of Blooms new and unique songs they do weekly with this group is our ‘I am Me’ activity, bringing all the children and their adults together in a circle as they listen and sing about Self Love, Diversity, Acceptance and Kindness with the use of Makaton.

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