- Visit DoSomething.org’s website. Click on “what’s your thing” and search out the causes you care about. They have a lot of great project ideas. You can start your own group and get access to great resources.
- Make snack bags. Put water bottles, crackers, and a wet nap in a paper bag. Decorate the bags with fun art – a 4 year old suggested we add the artwork. Distribute them to those in need. Makes for a fun craft project with great rewards.
- Share the love AND the allowance. Make separate piggy banks for allowance money. Ask your kids what seems like a fair percentage to donate. Let them choose what organization and a goal amount. If appropriate, let them experience the reward of presenting it to the organization when the goal is met.
- Allocate bins for donated clothes and toys. Again, keep the kids part of the decision-making and presentation process.
- Review Friends for Life project ideas for teachers, some of these projects would be fun to do as a family. For instance you can promote pets awaiting a permanent home visit www.adoptfriends4life.org (click on kidzone) with your kids. Use recycled materials in craft projects.
- Plant trees, tend to a community garden, adopt a section of street, highway, or promenade as a family.
- Adopt a grandparent. Contact a local age restricted assisted or independent living center.
- Coordinate a donation drive as part of your social group gatherings.
- Recycle as a family. Enlist little smashers and sorters, explain how the materials will be recycled and identify materials in your home that have a percentage of recycled content.
- Hold a family brainstorming meeting. Ask your kids for some other ideas. At the launch of this website, eighty-five percent of the ideas on itscool2care.org originated in brainstorming sessions with kids 15 and under! Please email us your ideas to be shared with other families.
- Each month write a thank you card from the family. Choose the recipient as a family, make sure everyone makes their mark on the card. Make your thank you cards from recycled materials!
- Do you have an idea? Click on our Contact Form on the right bar and let us know what you’ve come up with so that we can share it here!
- If you or someone you know wants to support a teacher's project, have your children help decide which project to contribute to at www.donorschoose.org