I believe gratitude can bring joy to life in nearly every situation. Here are some simple ways to add the study of this important value into your family time any time of the year. 1. Share what you are grateful for over candlelight at dinner. Dinner is a great time to encourage gratitude/sharing about things… {read more}
Craft Activities
5 Activities to Learn about Kindness (Bucket Filler Resources)
Have You Filled a Bucket Today? A Guide to Daily Happiness for Kids is a fun and effective introduction to what kindness is. Our family loves it so much that we use it at home and share it with friends all the time. A few months ago, my husband and I visited our sons’ classrooms (preschool and Grade… {read more}
Creating a Wall of Kindness (Bucket Filler Activities!)
After thoroughly enjoying our new Circle of Light CD over the past couple weeks (read my review of this awesome CD that teaches kids to live a lifestyle of kindness here!), I decided to do a simple activity with the kids to further discuss the message of bucket filling. The idea was that we would dedicate a wall in… {read more}
DIY Letter Writing Kit
My kids recently started a pen pal relationship with two children who live across the ocean. A friend I met when I did volunteer work in Israel (who is actually originally from the Philippines and now lives in Ireland) has children of the same age and, after discussing the possibility of our kids becoming pen pals via Facebook, we just received our first… {read more}
10+ Simple Handmade Gifts from Children
Making and giving handmade presents has several character building benefits for children: They have an opportunity to demonstrate empathy by thinking about what another person would like and creativity by choosing a unique gift to make for them. They have the chance to think about friendship by looking for ways to make their friends happy and thoughtfulness by making someone else feel loved and appreciated. They will… {read more}
10 Hands-On Activities to Teach Children about Love
Love is a wonderful character trait to begin learning about if you are starting the journey of building character education into your family’s rhythm. Because kids have been hearing “I love you” for so long, they can begin to understand the feeling and the actions that go along with this character trait quite easily. This… {read more}
5 Activities to Teach Children About Unity
We are all different. I believe teaching our children to appreciate difference – and recognize that everyone is the same on the inside – is very important. When we learn to accept others as they are, and find beauty in diversity, we are going to get along well with others. We will get to know… {read more}
100 Kids Activities To Build Character
Looking for kids activities to build character? You have come to the right place! My website is dedicated to activities, ideas and resources for families to build character. In this post I have put together a big list of 100 ideas from my own site and from other awesome blogs around the web. Be sure… {read more}
