Happy Kindness Challenge: Play The Kindness Challenge Game
November 29, 2018
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Last calendar week nosotros kicked off our 7th annual 100 ACTS OF KINDNESS CHALLENGE as well as it has been amazing to come across all of the wonderful acts of kindness that everyone has been doing!
Last week, Megan at Coffee Cups as well as Crayons issued our Week 1 Kindness Challenge as well as shared a exceptional means that nosotros tin serve Senior citizens.
This calendar week I larn to portion our WEEK 2 KINDNESS CHALLENGE amongst you! For our challenge this week, nosotros are encouraging you lot to play the kindness game amongst your families or students!
Scroll downwards to larn our gratis printable Kindness game as well as read to a greater extent than virtually how to play.
I read the most wonderful article this calendar week virtually 5 ways to enhance your kids to move kind. Many of the ideas simply reiterated why this kindness challenge is thus of import to me as well as our family. Two of my favorite ways include beingness a potent role model as well as mentor as well as expanding your child's circle of concern. Teaching kids basic principles similar gratitude as well as caring for others is likewise important!
This week, equally nosotros play our kindness game, you lot volition conduct maintain the mightiness to accommodate the game for your child's historic menstruum as well as abilities.
MATERIALS NEEDED:
- Kindness game board (print on heavy white cardstock)
- Tape
- Scissors
- Game pieces (1 for each player)
- Marker or pen
SET UP
To larn started, you'll bespeak to impress out the game board as well as cutting the pieces to brand them jibe into a game board that looks similar the photograph below.
Next, you'll bespeak to cutting out the game cards as well as kindness challenge cards. I recommend printing 2 sets of each cards. This game was created for us past times Kim over at Life over C's as well as she recommends that you lot impress the cards onto a slice of cardstock that has a designing on i side... thus that you lot won't move able to come across the cards through the cardstock. We kept ours blank... but I volition likely reprint them soon.
Once you lot conduct maintain everything taped as well as printed out, you'll desire to create your Kindness Challenge cards.
These are exceptional cards that players tin select when they province on a pump on the gameboard. You could select to move past times along your board game out all calendar week long as well as brand these challenges harder ones (like donating toys or taking treats to a friend), or you lot could sit down downwards as well as play the game inwards i sitting as well as move on simpler kindness challenges (like giving individual a hug, paying individual a compliment, or going to create a clandestine deed of kindness for a sibling or friend nearby).
Megan at Coffee Cups & Crayons has a fabulous as well as comprehensive listing of big as well as small-scale acts of kindness that you lot could utilization to create sum out your Kindness Challenge cards. We conduct maintain several other examples of elementary acts of kindness on our 100 Acts of Kindness Pinterest board.
Once your cards are written out as well as you've cutting everything out, you lot are create to play!
HOW TO PLAY THE KINDNESS GAME
Grab a few friends as well as fix your markers inwards the top of the left utilization of the game board. If you lot desire to become far actually clear, write START inwards the top left corner of your game board.
Each histrion tin select i menu on their turn. Make certain the pump cards as well as the kindness challenge cards are human face upwardly downwards when you lot larn started.
The number as well as coloring of hearts on your menu determines how many spaces you lot move! If you lot larn 2 royal hearts, you lot motion to the get-go royal infinite as well as thus jump to the second.
Once i histrion goes, it is the side past times side player's turn. I recommend going clockwise unopen to the tabular array as well as letting each histrion conduct maintain a turn.
If a histrion lands on a white heart, they larn to select a Kindness Challenge card. In lodge to continuing playing, they bespeak to laissez passer on the Kindness Challenge.
This is a fun game to play all calendar week long equally a family. You tin move together to assist each other on the Kindness Challenges.
To win the game, a histrion needs to motion across the entire game board as well as goal inwards the top correct bluish location at the goal of the kindness path. If you lot desire to brand that extra clear, write "END" on the bluish location on the board.
This game is thus fun to play together amongst students or your family! By providing kids amongst opportunities to practise caring as well as gratitude, you lot genuinely are helping to enhance sort kids!
If you lot conduct maintain whatever corking ideas that nosotros should add together to our kindness challenge deck, move past times them along inwards the comments!
10 of my favorite tardily kindness challenge ideas include:
- Give individual a hug
- Say 2 squeamish things virtually a player
- Read a mass to individual (or amongst someone)
- Leave a clandestine banknote or process on someone's pillow (or inwards their desk)
- Tell a joke
- Leave happy pasty notes unopen to your solid (or classroom)
- Call a relative to nation hi
- Write chalk messages on the sidewalk
- Take treats to a vecino (or a teacher)
- Make someone's bed (or assist build clean upwardly their desk)
Don't forget to DOWNLOAD THE KINDNESS GAME BOARD & CARDS HERE!!
I can't hold back to listen what elementary acts of kindness you lot create this week!
Make certain you lot bring together our 100 Acts of Kindness Facebook group thus that you lot tin portion your ideas as well as come across what other people are upwardly to equally well!
