Complimentary Breakfast (Idea for an activity to create unity)



Mini Candy Bar Wrappers - "Sweetness is never out of season"



Coloring Page on Kindness from Christy's Clipart



Family Home Evening Lesson on Kindness Begins with Me
I printed up a sheet with a quote about kindness and a New Testament scripture about being like Jesus. Then below it I typed up the days of the week all in a row with space between them. The goal was to take 5 seconds every day to change someone's day by smiling, complimenting them, saying thank you or please, etc. The idea came from Merilee Boyacks' Time Out for Women talk. She said we can serve in tiny ways and change people's day in a few seconds a day. Our children LOVED drawing tally marks under each day of the week; they also loved thinking and verbalizing at breakfast what kinds of things they would do or say that day--and to whom. We all did it for several weeks and it was a blessing to our family and to each of us individually.  (by Robyn Buckwalter / ga05182008)

Kindness and Love Family Home Evening (Dora Theme) by Margaret Hammond 

Kindness Family Home Evening from Deseret Book

Showing Kindness Family Home Evening from Latter-Day Village



Kindness Bouquet - from May 1999 Friend - color and cut out the flowers and leaves, and glue each to a straw, an ice-cream-bar stick, or a pencil. (Use the flowers as patterns to make several of each. Or make your own.) Then, every time you see someone in your family do a kind deed, give him or her a flower and put one into a vase.



Lesson on Kindness



You May Have to Eat Your Words - Make sure they are sweet and tender.



Using popcorn kernels, demonstrate how we can be hard when we do not serve others, but when "popped" or filled with air, we are light and fluffy.
 

One Liners

A glass of milk 
Abiding Love 
Everyday Heroes (Article from the Salt Lake Tribune Newspaper, April 6, 1998)
Looking for Nice
Nail in the Fence
The Dart Test
The Legend of the King and the Water
The Night Watch
The Parable of the Bucket & The Dipper
This might be for a little older child but I have a 5 year old and a 2 year old and the 5 year old really learned from the story "Do As I'm Doing". It's about an older brother who's tired of his little brother always hanging around and copying him and the mother teaches him that he has an older brother who wants us to copy him, Jesus. In the story they're making car shaped pancakes so I sometimes tell the story while I make pancakes on Sunday and he's proud to have his little brother want to be like him. (Idea by Alyson Mansfield / ga04222008)



A Need for Greater Kindness by Gordon B. Hinckley from October 2006 Priesthood Session