Read Have You Filled a Bucket Today by Caro McCloud

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Explore this beloved classic with your family!

• Print and cut your conversation starters.

• Let kids take the lead and ask their favorite questions.

• Keep cards with the book for next time with these self-adhesive library pockets.

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Read Stone Soup by Jon J Muth

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• Print and cut your conversation starters.

• Let kids take the lead and ask their favorite questions.

• Keep cards with the book for next time with these self-adhesive library pockets.

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Read Rabbit & Squirrel: A Tale of War and Peas

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• Print and cut your conversation starters.

• Let kids take the lead and ask their favorite questions.

• Keep cards with the book for next time with these self-adhesive library pockets.

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Read The Empty Pot by Demi

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• Print and cut your conversation starters.

• Let kids take the lead and ask their favorite questions.

• Keep cards with the book for next time with these self-adhesive library pockets.

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Read Two Old Potatoes and Me by Cynthia DeFelice

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• Print and cut your conversation starters.

• Let kids take the lead and ask their favorite questions.

• Keep cards with the book for next time with these self-adhesive library pockets.

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Read Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge by Mem Fox

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• Print and cut your conversation starters.

• Let kids take the lead and ask their favorite questions.

• Keep cards with the book for next time with these self-adhesive library pockets.

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Stone Soup by Jon J Muth

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There are many different ways to make the world a better place. Get inspired with this simple, lyrical book. Then get started!

• Print and cut your conversation starters.

• Let kids take the lead and ask their favorite questions.

• Keep cards with the book for next time with these self-adhesive library pockets.

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Raising an Anti-Racist Generation: a DGT Toolkit

Doing Good Together™ is proud to offer this simple resource guide to help your family work in meaningful ways to create a stronger, more equitable community.

Download your copy here!

As always, DGT is focused on spreading compassion and kindness. We believe that as parents, families, and members of communities, who seek to raise one another up, we must point out and condemn racism, brutality, and indifference to suffering wherever we see it.

We must also examine our own racism and the limits to our own compassion.

We encourage families to discuss these issues honestly and openly at every age. This toolkit may be a helpful jumping-off point, offering opportunities to think deeply and talk openly about justice, inequity, and humanity from a young age.

Together, we can build a better world.

What’s Included?

• Give thoughtfully!

  • Create a Social Impact Giving Jar. Instructions included.

  • Play Live Generously Bingo to fill your Giving Jar. Bingo card included.

• Get curious with one of three unique Anti-Racism Learning Challenges, featuring:

  • a 12-week Learning Challenge for Adults, with videos, articles, and podcasts,

  • a 12-week Growing Up Anti-Racist Challenge with books, games, and videos for families, and

  • a 12-week Read with Empathy picture book challenge.

• Advocate for change.

  • Try our Social Justice Advocacy Template.

  • Reach out to elected officials with a letter template for adults and older kids.

  • Fill out the "My Elected Official" address poster and reach out regularly.

• Connect with expert resources with a list of ideas to deepen your learning.

Plan Your DIY "Summer of Kindness" Camp

We’re excited to share our newest e-book designed to walk your family through a one-of-a-kind, compassion-building summer, full of crafty fun, bookish conversations, epic movie nights, and thoughtful activities. Download our Summer of Kindness: DGT’s 6-Week Big-Hearted Family Camp.

Let’s make the most of the flexible schedules and extra time together. All of us at Doing Good Together have put our heads together and created six weeks of meaningful, memory-making activities. Feel free to reach out with any questions as you adapt these resources to your family’s interests and abilities.

Simply e-mail me at Sarah@DoingGoodTogether.org.

And share your experiences with us on Instagram and in our Facebook Group with #summerofkndness.

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Say Something by Peter H. Reynolds

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There are many different ways to make the world a better place. Get inspired with this simple, lyrical book. Then get started!

• Print and cut your conversation starters.

• Let kids take the lead and ask their favorite questions.

• Keep cards with the book for next time with these self-adhesive library pockets.

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Take the DGT Family Pledge

Celebrate your commitment to sharing kindness and kickstart a big-hearted conversation about your family’s goals with this simple pledge.

Take the DGT Read with Empathy Challenge

Work through this collection of some of DGT’s favorite books, each with one simple conversation starter to get your family talking!

Print Your Food Pantry Donation Label

Is your family kicking-off a habit of helping the hungry? Follow these instructions to Adopt a Food Shelf, and use this fun printable to get started!

Share Creative Acts of Bookmark Kindness

Bibliophiles everywhere will enjoy this crafty, big-hearted celebration of stories.  These DIY bookmarks will help you bring smiles and big-hearted ideas to your community. Here are just a few ways you may want to enjoy this project:

• With your family at your kitchen table, at a coffee shop, or anywhere you can connect and color.

• With a youth group (classmates, teammates, scouts, youth group, etc.) as a bookish kindness activity.

• Leave copies to share with your local library or in little free libraries for other book lovers to complete.

If you enjoyed the Bookmark Kindness in your Welcome Kit, try it again! This time invite friends!

Recipients

Hide them in library books. Give them to friends, teachers, neighbors. Leave them in Little Free Libraries.

What You’ll Need

• DGT’s Member Exclusive Printable

• Crayons or colored pencils

• Scissors

• Clear packing tape or laminating paper

• Hole punch

• Yarn or ribbon

Instructions

• Decorate your bookmarks.

• Read (and discuss) the recommended books on your bookmarks.

• Try one (or more) of the recommended kindness ideas on your bookmarks.

• Cut around the outside of the book marks (leaving the front and back adjoined).

• Fold in half (so the front and back face outward).

• Seal with packing tape or laminate.

• Use a hole punch where indicated and add yarn or ribbon.

Hide your decorated bookmarks in library books you love or in Little Free Libraries. Give them to teachers or neighbors or folks who may be lonely or ill.

Resources

These books grow kindness:

• The Day You Begin by Jacqueline Woodson: This book is a beautiful reminder to take pride in our own stories, watch for what we have in common with others, and delight in our fabulous differences.

• Doña Flor: A Tall Tale about a Giant Woman with a Great Big Heart by Pat Mora: This heartwarming and humorous original tall tale is peppered with Spanish words and phrases. Readers will fall in love with Doña Flor, a giant lady with a great big heart.

• Have you Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud: The bucket provides a perfect metaphor for the way our words and actions can make others overflow with happy feelings, or the way we may lash out at others when we’re feeling depleted and empty. Even the youngest readers will set out to fill a bucket!

• I Walk with Vanessa: A Story about a Simple Act of Kindness by Kerascoët: Winner of Parents Magazine's "Best Book that Champions Kindness" of 2018! This wonderful, wordless book is a must-have for any big-hearted library. t

• Peace is an Offering by Annette LeBox: A group of neighborhood kids discover peace in the beautiful world around them. This poetic book will open  your eyes to the world around you. 

These books inspire changemakers:

• The Big Umbrella by June Bates: This is a beautiful, open-ended book helps kids see that there’s always room to include others. Young readers may enjoying knowing that this book was co-written by a mother-daughter team that imagined the story on their way to school in the rain.

• The Quiltmaker's Gift by Jeff Brumbeau: In this bewitching fairy-tale, a very talented seamstress makes beautiful quilts for the poor and the homeless When the king who has everything decides he must have one of her creations, she tells him he must give away everything; then she will give him a quilt. In the process of shedding his many possessions, the king finds true happiness.

• Lend a Hand: Poems about Giving by John Frank: So much good is captured in the pages of this book. Kind acts of children are captured in the thoughtful, observant way only poetry can accomplish. 

• Maddi's Fridge by Lois Brandt: This book is both a joyful story of friendship and an emotional tale of hidden need. Children will be inspired to learn more – and do more – about local issues of hunger after hearing Sofia’s desire to help her friend.

• The Three Questions: Based on a Story by Leo Tolstoy by Jon J Muth: Follow Nikolai on his quest to answer three important questions: Who is the most important one? What is the most important thing? When is the most important time? Amid all of this food for thought, your family will cheer for Nikolai as he rescues someone in need.

• What Can a Citizen Do? by Dave Eggers: The remarkable Dave Eggers, author of the inspiring book Her Right Foot, is at it again. In his engaging, beautifully-written style, Eggers inspires kids to consider what it takes to be an active citizen.

Take it Further

• Restock a Little Free Library.

• Leave encouraging sticky notes - along with bookmarks - in your favorite library books.

• Donate favorite books to a shelter.

• Host a book drive for a shelter or organization in need.

• Volunteer to read to seniors at a nearby nursing home.

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Raise an Upstander with Creative Anti-Bullying Projects

This toolkit will help your whole family practice being "upstanders." This e-book includes:

• Big-Hearted Cut & Keep Conversation Cards to pair with your favorite book about bullying.

• Our Family of Upstanders, a series of creative prompts for discussing, drawing, and writing about your strategy to stand up to bullies.

•  “Be an Upstander,” a 12-Week Kindness Challenge designed to help you make a difference

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Read The Giant Hug by Sandra Horning

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Follow a hug on its heart-warming adventure through the postal system all the way to Granny’s house.

• Print and cut your conversation starters.

• Let kids take the lead and ask their favorite questions.

• Keep cards with the book for next time with these self-adhesive library pockets.

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