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Kind things to do with kids

Concrete enough for a child to understand what happened and why it mattered, which is most of what makes it stick. Nothing here needs a craft supply run or a Pinterest board.

Showing 61–67 of 67 ideas

• Put the courgette glut on the wall

  Anyone who grows vegetables ends up with more than they can eat. Most of it is composted rather than offered.

  5 minutesFreeA neighbor

• Organize two hours of clearing up

  A litter pick is mostly an excuse. Forty neighbors meeting each other is the actual output.

  An afternoonFreeA neighbor

• Teach the phone thing properly, not quickly

  Doing it for them solves today. Teaching it slowly, written down, solves the next two years.

  Half an hourFreeA neighbor

• Put a cold box out in a heatwave

  Delivery drivers, refuse crews and postal workers do forty-degree days on foot with no realistic way to stop.

  5 minutesUnder $10A stranger

• Leave a note for your mail carrier

  The person who walks to your door most days almost never hears from the people who live behind it.

  5 minutesFreeA stranger2 people did this

• Make a hard-day box for a caregiver

  The person looking after someone else is usually the last one anybody looks after.

  An afternoonMore than $10A caregiver

• Bring the trash cans back up

  Sixty seconds of your afternoon, and someone comes home to one less thing.

  5 minutesFreeA neighbor