Activities
SPREADING KINDNESS
Kids understand the importance of feeling encour-
aged by their peers, teachers, and parents. One way
to spread kindness is to write affirming notes or Scrip-
ture verses on Post-its or pieces of paper and place
them anywhere: the school bathroom, hallways, or on a
teacher's desk.
SERVICE
Kids can participate in many different activities to learn
how to serve their neighbors while also connecting
them to church: serving dinner at an Advent meal,
learning how to be an usher or acolyte in church, or
joining the choir.
TIE BLANKETS
Make fleece tie blankets in groups of four or five. You
can also partner with the Lutheran Church Charities
K-9 Comfort Dog Ministry to deliver the blankets to a
nursing home with the dogs.
PEN PALS
Assign each child in your class a shut-in or elder in
your church. Ask them to write back and forth to each
other for the year, and then host a meet-and-greet time
at the end of the year. This will help foster relation-
ships with the elderly members of your congregation,
give kids perspective about someone in a different life
stage, and encourage their letter-writing skills.
Monica Kegley is a wife, teacher, and photographer. Although
she grew up in San Francisco, California, she is a Concordia
University Wisconsin alumni and now lives in Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, with her husband, Noah, who is a pastor. She
enjoys photography, calligraphy, trying new coffee places
around Milwaukee, and walking their dog, Cali.
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