Kids Care Clubs
12 Days of Caring
The joy of giving! The season of caring! That is what the holidays are about. Your club can create your own themes for days of caring in your community or club members can take the ideas home to share with their families.
The 12 days of caring can be done in any order you wish. You can do them for 12 straight days or every other day.
1st- SECRET ELF- Leave a special poem, a small gift, plant or holiday story at a homebound neighbor or someone in need. You can continue this daily or weekly throughout the month!
2nd- CARING COOKIES - Make your favorite cookies for someone special in your life. You could give them to a teacher, a relative, a neighbor, or a friend. Check the recipe below.
3rd- BIRD EXTRAVAGANZA- Decorate a tree for the birds. Cover pinecones with peanut butter and dip them in birdseed. String popcorn and cranberries. Cut up apples, oranges, and other fruits to hang pieces on the tree.
4th- HOLIDAY KITS- Create a holiday project for a child that cannot afford to buy a present for someone he or she loves. Put together everything a child would need to make a present for a loved one. Contact a family or domestic violence homeless shelter to distribute the kits.
5th- TABLE DECORATIONS- Make a holiday centerpiece or place mats for a local senior center or deliver some to Meals on Wheels.
6th- CARING CALENDAR- Interview an elderly neighbor or a relative and find out the important dates in their lives. Create a calendar with handmade pictures or photos and fill in the special dates. This can be done on the computer, by hand or with a calendar kit.
7th- HOLIDAY HOPE CHEST - Fill a shoebox with small gifts and a card for a homeless child or someone that will be spending the holidays in the hospital. See Kids Care Clubs Holiday Hope Chests
8th- KITTY AND PUPPY LOVE - Bring cat and dog food, clean old towels and clean blankets, newspapers and paper towels to your local animal rescue shelter along with some extra kitty and puppy "treats" or animal toy.
9th- SOUP TO SHARE- Make a container of homemade soup and give it to someone that is very stressed out or depressed and needs to know that someone really cares for them.
10th- DECK THE HALLS - Decorate a shelter, senior center, community center or an elderly person's home in your neighborhood. Find out which holiday they celebrate and make some bright decorations that they can hang up in their windows. You could also make BIRDFEEDERS for them to hang right outside their window. 11th-FUDGE DELIVERY-member your garbage man, postman, bus driver and any other deliveryman that may stop at your home on a regular basis. Make some homemade fudge and a special holiday card.
12th- CARING FAMILY MEAL - This can be made for your own family, a relative a neighbor or all of the above! The hope is that everyone in your family participates in the planning and the preparation of a special meal. You can use your own family favorites or check out our recipe area.
Sugar Cookie Recipe
Ingredients:
How to:
Using your electric mixer, combine the sugar and butter until fluffy. Add the eggs and then the vanilla. In a separate bowl, combine the dry ingredients. Slowly add the dry ingredients to the butter mixture. If it seems too dry, add a little milk. Chill for at least 1 hour.
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Roll the dough out on a floured surface. Use a variety of cookie cutters to make your favorite shaped cookies. Decorate them with sprinkles and place them on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake for 7-8 minutes.
Makes about 4 dozen.
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