Daily Idea #68: Visual Kindness

During the year, many of us are used to writing mitzvah notes (notes for the teacher to know what good deeds our children have done at home) to give accolades and promote kindness. Just because we are at home doesn’t mean this should stop. Helping children learn to incorporate kindness into their daily activities can be a very simple step we can take at home; make your mitzvah notes into a paper chain to decorate the playroom, or the bedroom, or even a hallway.

To start, have your children cut strips of paper from various colors of construction paper. Have them write, if they are old enough, or help them write down on individual strips some good deeds they have done over the last few days.

Then to make your paper chain, start with one strip. Connect the ends of the paper together forming a circle and secure with a few staples or tape. Take the next strip and put it through the hole you have created in the first strip and connect the ends again making your first link in the chain.

Add the rest of the strips for that day and hang them where everyone can see. Every day make it a point to write on a new strip a good deed that each child did and add it to the chain.