Kindness

See if you can get a BINGO! by completing small acts of kindness.

• 17 Activities for Kids to Practice Kindness and Compassion (Nature's Path)
  Activities that encourage having a kindness mindset.
  
  
• 31 Kindness Activities for Kids (Big Life Journal)
  
  
• Arts and Crafts Activities to Teach Kids About Kindness and Compassion (A Fine Parent)
  Features five activities you can do with your children to encourage kindness. 
  
  
• I Can Show Kindness (Pathway to Success)
  
  
• Kindness Booklet
  Ten things parents and caregivers can do to promote emotional understanding and kindness in young children.
  
  
• Kindness Challenge
  This booklet from randomactsofkindness.org includes a kindness challenge, as well as colouring pages, writing prompts, and other kindness activities for you and your family to complete.
  
  
• Kindness Yoga for Kids (Kids Yoga Fun)
  Links yoga poses to acts of kindness.
  
  
• Loving-Kindness Meditation
  Strengthen feelings of kindness and connection towards others with this 15 minute daily guided meditation exercise from Greater Good in Action.
  
  
• Random Acts of Kindness Foundation
  Check out the Get Inspired section for Kindness ideas, posters, calendars, quotes, videos and stories!
  
  
• School Kindness Calendar (Random Acts of Kindness Foundation)
  Daily suggestions of things you can do to show kindness to others and yourself.
  
  
• School Holiday Kindness Challenge (Spectrum Education)

• bKindly
  A social media app that allows you to share messages of kindness and encouragement with the people around you.

• 6 Ways to Teach Kids to Be Kind (parents)
  Tips for creating a culture of kindness in your home.
  
  
• Encouraging Kindness in Kids (Greater Good in Action)
  How to praise kids in ways that make them more kind.
  
  
• How to be a Kindness Role Model for Your Kids (Greater Good Magazine)
  Provides suggestions for activities and conversations you can have with your children that will foster kindness and encourage empathy.
  
  
• Kindness & Empathy (PBS Kids)
  Full of articles and activities to help you build kindness and empathy with your children.

• Books About Kindness (Imagination Soup)
  42 story books for early elementary children with a kindness theme.
  
  
• Books that Teach Compassion for Upper Elementary and Middle School (Literacy in Focus)
  
  

• Kindness - Self-Compassion Meditation
  Kindness meditation by Dr. Vo from BC Children’s Hospital
   

• Love and Kindness for Your Child
  Meditation for caregivers by Dr. McDermid - BC Children’s Hospital
  

• Loving-Kindness Meditation
  Mediation by Dr. McDermid - BC Children's Hospital
  
  
  

• Top 30 Kindness and Friendship Movies for Families (Big Life Journal)
  
  
• Life Vest Inside - Kindness Boomerang - "One Day" 
  Watch as the camera tracks an act of kindness as its passed from one individual to the next and manages to boomerang back to the person who set it into motion.
  
  
  
  
• Meditating with Kids (Greater Good Science Center)
  A loving-kindness meditation you can do with your kids to help them feel more connected to and positive about the people around them.
  
  
  
  
• TED Talk - Kindness
  Orly Wahba, founder of Life Vest Inside, discusses the power of kindness.
  
  
  
  
• Train Your Brain to be Kind (Greater Good Science Centre)
  Children provide strategies and tips for practising kindness.