AGE GROUP 14-18 YEARS OLD
- What are your favorite historic or literature characters that could be described as kind?
- Comment on the quote and give examples in writing, drawing, or video, “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.” (Dalai Lama)
- If there were The Kindness Award, who would you give it to?
- If there were a Kindness Week in your school, who would you send a message to and what would you say in the note?
- This is your best friend’s B-day. Compose a greeting, use the term “kindness” and explain why you think they are kind.
- Comment on the quote and give examples in writing, drawing, or video, “The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people” (Leo Tolstoy)
- How could kindness bring you friends? Give examples.
- I remember my grandmother/K-8 teacher/care provider who was especially kind. Describe them.
- Draw, photograph, create video examples of kind people.
- Imagine a Kindness Week, how would you celebrate it?
- If you had access to all children worldwide, what would be your message about kindness to them?
- Describe a time when you went out of your way to be kind to a stranger.
- Describe how you feel when you consciously choose to be kind instead of responding in your current mood.
- For the most part I do not go out of my way to be kind or to say kind things; I plan to become more kind by…
- For me, the phrase ‘Kindness Matters’ means . . .
- If you could create a Kindness Time capsule of people highlighted in the news from this past year, who and what acts of kindness would you put into the time capsule?