Acts of Kindness!!

So for My dad and Step-mom's Christmas Present to them this year they sent us some money and asked that we would take the money and use it towards acts of kindness! (they said that they didn't want anything they just wanted us to do nice things for other people) So Mimaw e-mailed me some ideas of different acts of kindness and I read them to my family and asked them to think of something that they wanted to do to use the money to do nice things for others. Shawn came up with his own idea (I will share that in a later post) and the boys wanted to go and purchase gift cards at the store and then attach them onto various items around the store. So here is what we did throughout the store!

Well first before we went into the store the three of us brought in 2 shopping carts each back into the store. (now I realize that 2 shopping carts is not much but those things are hard to maneuver) That was a fun thing to do!

OK back to my story!!

So the first thing we did when we got into the store was purchase the gift cards. (Kode was being a little grumpy and did not want his picture taken well at least not right then. I got lots of pictures of him throughout the store)

Then we were off to find the perfect places to attach the gift cards to. On each gift card I wrote (from) Acts of Kindness! Enjoy! and then $ amount

(just so no one thought that the card was a blank one)

Bry choose to attach one to the back of a pack of Hot Wheels cars

Then Kode wanted to attach one to a Nintendo DS Lite.

(He thought that someone is going to be surprised when they go to purchase this electronic and see the gift card there)

Then Kode saw a flat screen TV and wanted to attach one to it.

Then Bry decided he wanted to attach a gift card to a movie

and they attached one to some ink for a printer!

We all got a laugh out of this one! Bry wanted to attach one on some toilet paper.

(who doesn't use that)

and then Kode wanted to attach one to the back of a fish tank!

We all had fun going through the store attaching the gift cards to whatever we wanted to. We hope that those gift cards will put a smile on someones face when they realize what it is.

Thanks Mimaw for sharing such a wonderful activity with us. I have always told my boys that Christmas is not what you get its what you give and this activity was a very prime example. I hope that they are excited enough to do more acts of kindness throughout the coming year!!