Good Deeds Calendar
Flip up a flap of this calendar to reveal a random act of kindness. Lend a hand to your family, friends, and neighbors.
1. With Crayola® Erasable Colored Pencils, write a list of things that you can do to help your family, neighborhood, or people around the world. For example, you could carry in groceries or organize a trash pick-up drive. A cozy quilt is a symbol for love and help. Using a straight edge, draw a large rectangle on a file folder. Cut out the quilt with Crayola Scissors.
2. Inside the rectangle, outline quilt pieces: squares, triangles, or other imaginative designs. Fill in outlines with Under Colors of Crayola Overwriter Markers. Then draw patterns with Over Colors. Watch colors emerge into a beautiful design!
3. Cut out around three edges of each quilt patch with Total Tools™ Ultimate Cutter™. Fold up tabs. Place your quilt on brightly colored paper. Trace tab openings on the paper. Remove quilt top. Write one good deed inside each space.
4. Cover edges of the quilt (not tabs) with a Crayola Glue Stick. Set quilt on top of colored paper. Make sure good deeds show through when tabs are open. If you wish, number tabs to correspond to days of your good-deed doing (such as Advent) or leave them blank (for Rosh Hashanah because you have a year to fulfill them).
Adult supervision is required for any arts & crafts project. Observe children closely and intervene as necessary to prevent potential safety problems and ensure appropriate use of arts and crafts materials. Some craft items, particularly beads and buttons, are potential choking hazards for young children. Avoid use of such small parts with children younger than 3 years. Craft items such as scissors, push pins and chenille sticks may have sharp points or edges. Avoid use of materials with sharp points by children younger than 4 years. Read all manufacturers' safety warnings before using arts and craft supplies.
Scissors—ATTENTION: The cutting edges of scissors are sharp and care should be taken whenever cutting or handling. Blunt-tip scissors should be used only by children 4 years and older. Pointed-tip scissors should be used only by children 6 years and older.
- Debate the topic: Are selfless acts really selfish? Who benefits the most from acts of kindness?
- Initiate a school-wide week of random kindness.
- Adopt a project to support for the entire school year.
- Try not telling anyone that you did one of your good deeds. How does it make you feel?
- Assessment: How imaginative and helpful are the good deeds? How creatively were the Overwriters used in making the project?
Night Along the Water
Geometric City
Unknown and Well Known
