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Easy Ways to Serve During the Holidays

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Easy and fun ideas for serving with kids during the holiday

The end of the year for many families is especially busy.  With a schedule packed full of events, extended family visiting, and other details to attend to, it can be unfortunately easy to forget that there are still those in great need around us.

Serving others does not have to be difficult or complicated.  Integrating kindness into your regular routine can be meaningful and fun.  Here are five simple ways to serve during the holidays – great for kids to participate in, too!

1. When cooking for your family, make a few extra portions to give to an elderly neighbor or a mother who recently had a baby.

2. If you are going on a family outing to some place special (for example, music in the park), invite a student or other single person living far from home to come with you.  For those who do not have funds to go home, it can be lonely during the holiday season when everyone else is celebrating with family.

3. Decide to not spend money on something you deem nice but unnecessary (extra decorations? more gifts?) and give it to charity instead.  You may even decide to have a gift-free celebration, and do some fundraising instead.  Visit this post for 15 fun ways to do this.

4. Take a moment to send a message or card to a friend who recently lost a relative.  For many, the holiday following a loss can be very, very hard, so having some extra support can be extremely helpful to these friends.

5. Go out of your way to make some friendly chit chat with someone you know who does not celebrate Christmas.  It can be very isolating for families (especially children) in this situation – when the whole world seems to be revolving around a holiday not everyone observes.  Taking time to ask them how they are and what their plans are, maybe even about the holidays that they celebrate, is a kind gesture and usually much appreciated.

Do you have plans to serve others this holiday season?  What service has your family enjoyed in the past?

For more ideas to serve year round, check out this list of 52 acts of kindness for families.



Five Easy Ways for Families to Serve During a Busy Holiday Season

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Filed Under: Acts of Kindness, Blog Tagged With: Kindness, Service

About Chelsea Lee Smith

Author, certified parent educator, and mother of three with a background in Communications and Counselling, Chelsea provides resources to parents and teachers who want to incorporate personal growth into everyday moments. Follow her @momentsaday on Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram.

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  1. katepickle

    December 10, 2013 at 12:16 pm

    I love that all your suggestions are always so doable! It makes it easy when you can say ‘oh I can do that!’

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  2. Rachel | Racheous - Lovable Learning

    December 11, 2013 at 4:43 pm

    I love that you included those who don’t celebrate Christmas! Thanks for the practical ideas 🙂

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  3. Caz

    December 11, 2013 at 6:19 pm

    Great suggestions, it can be so easy to forget these kinds of things at the busiest time of the year, but it’s more important now than ever I think. Our eldest daughters school is doing an excursion to a nursing home to visit the residents next week before they break for holidays, I love the idea!

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  4. Penny

    December 14, 2013 at 7:14 am

    Beautiful ideas. We just gave the postie a pressie and he loved it, we got a nice little note back. Then we made brownies for the neighbors and for the family that have spectacular Christmas lights down the road. Serving others serves us too. We are getting so much joy out of this!

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  5. Nathalie Brown

    December 14, 2013 at 3:30 pm

    Such an important message to get across to our children

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  6. Kelly

    December 14, 2013 at 3:52 pm

    What a gorgeous post! Beautiful.

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  7. Kate Lloyd

    December 15, 2013 at 9:49 pm

    You have just such lovely suggestions. Yesterday I sent a Christmas basket of goodies to my dear uncle who suffers from terrible shyness. He chooses to always have such a quiet Christmas alone, however, I’m sure he’ll like what I sent him. Thanks for your continued inspiration.

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