Spread poetry and smiles!
Tap into your family’s creativity and share simple messages of inspiration, hope, and joy.
Potential Recipients
Tuck your poetry under the car window wipers wherever you happen to be.
What you’ll need
This template from our friends at Car Window Poetry, available here (or create your own!)
Art supplies: Crayons or colored pencils, scissors, clear packing, and tape or laminating paper
Instructions
Hear one family’s story of this project in action here.
Create short, heart-warming poems, jokes, or artwork. You may want to use the free Car Window Poetry cards available here.
Place your poems on car windows outside your school, playground, library, a busy grocery store, or wherever you happen to be. Note: if it's raining or remarkably windy, postpone this step a bit.
Post your poems on Instagram with the #CarWindowPoetry. While you're at it, kindly add #DoingGoodTogether as well!
Reflection
What kind of words, pictures, and ideas make us smile? Feel hopeful? Feel brave?
What can we share that might cheer up other people if they’re having a hard day?
How would you feel if you found a note like this in our car?
Can we target this project? Who in our community could use some extra encouragement? Can we think of any organizations we might want to support (nurses at a local clinic, teachers at a local school)?
Resources
Browse the lists in Doing Good Together’s picturebook poetry collection for your next family favorite!
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.Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z by Irene Latham and Charles Waters
This collection of poetry overflows with opportunities to launch big-hearted conversations.
Take it further
Write poems to share with friends or neighbors in need of cheering up.
Use poetry to inspire big-hearted conversations and critical thinking with these tools for educators from the National Poetry Foundation.
Browse the projects in our Big-Hearted Families Tookit!
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