A family companion to Kindness Week — one small kind act a day, from World Kindness Day (Friday, November 13) to Thanksgiving. Your child's class may be doing a kindness challenge at school. This is the home half: the same ten values, the same ten days, each one sized for a family evening — about 15 minutes, almost all of them free, every one ending with a story. From Coryverse — stories for all ages, especially young children.
Kindness is a skill. Like reading, kids get better at it with practice — and they learn it best by watching you do it and by doing one small, named act at a time.
The tracker: Print this page and put the 10 days on the fridge. Each day has a heart to colour in. Do the day's act together, talk about it for one minute at dinner — What did you do? How did they react? How did it feel? — then colour the heart.
The jar: Put a clean jar and a pad of slips on the counter on November 9. Every time anyone spots a kind act — given, received, or witnessed — it goes on a slip in the jar. Do NOT read them as you go. The jar is read aloud at the Thanksgiving table on November 26. That reading is the finish line of the whole challenge.
The story: Every day ends with a 5-minute story moment — any book from your shelf where somebody is kind, brave, sorry, or grateful. A picture book is the shortcut to the conversation: kids connect with a character long before they connect with a concept.
Running late? Start wherever you are. Miss a day? Do two hearts on Saturday, or skip it and keep going — a challenge with eight kind days in it still worked. Never let the tracker become homework.
Before Day 1 (Nov 9–12): the warm-up gets the jar started and the first card made, so Friday the 13th — World Kindness Day — arrives with momentum instead of a cold start.
One act a day — each ≤15 minutes. The dinner question is the same every day: "What did you do? How did they react? How did it feel?" Colour one heart each day; the jar does the remembering, the hearts do the showing.
A kindness I gave / got / saw — and how it felt. Keep a notebook by the jar with three story boxes a day: what happened, and how it felt. A few minutes a day is the whole habit — this is how one Kindness Day becomes a kind month.
KINDNESS CHAMPIONS — AT HOME
This certifies that the ____________________ family completed 10 Days of Kindness at Home — one kind act a day from World Kindness Day to Thanksgiving — filled a kindness jar, and read it together at the Thanksgiving table.
The one kindness we're keeping in December: ____________________
November 26, 2026 · Signed: Everybody at the table ____________
Print this page, fill the certificate in together on Thanksgiving, and put it on the fridge door.
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