Advent Week 2

Family on a Mission

Each day take one of these and as a family complete the task. Some days are easy and some days are a bit more challenging. Check them off and try and only do them once.

1.   Write an “I Love You” note to someone and leave it for them to find

2.   Offer to do something for a stranger

3.   Hold the door open for someone

4.   Bake some cookies and give them to a neighbor

5.   Write an encouragement note to a police officer

6.   Take dinner to another family

7.   Help pick up litter

8.   Give out free hugs

9.   Let someone skip ahead of you in line

10.      Leave some change in a vending machine

11.  Introduce yourself to someone new

12.                  Help an elderly person put up their Christmas decorations

13.  Give your waiter a little extra tip

14. Write a letter to a military personnel

15. Donate money to the Salvation Army red kettle

16. Volunteer to ring the bell for Salvation Army red kettle

17.    Deliver homemade cards, children’s books or puzzles to patients on the children’s ward of a hospital

18.    Clean up a playground

19.     Put together some type of care package for your school bus driver

20.   Call a local nursing home and find out who doesn’t have family and is celebrating their birthday that month.  Take them a cake, balloons and a card.

21.    Ask a local nursing home if you can help decorate their bulletin boards

22.    Make activity bags for children who are in the hospital or their parents are in the hospital

23.    Make pen flowers for the nurses station at the local hospitals

24.    Put together a late night care package for fire fighters working the night shift

25.    Get gifts for a child off the angel tree

26.      Volunteer at a food bank

27.    Host a craft night at a nursing home

28.    Send our college students cards

29.    Put together a shoebox for operation Christmas child

30.    Donate diapers and wipes to local women’s shelter

31. Write a thank you note to the janitor at the local schools

32.     Give the cashier at the store a thank you note

33. Babysit for a family while they go shopping

34. Donate food to the local pet shelter

35. Write notes of encouragement in chalk on a friends sidewalk or driveway

36. Take coffee to a homeless shelter

37.    Send a phone card to a person in the military

38.    Take school supplies to a local school to restock their resource closet

39.     Find a need in the neighborhood and fill it

40.    Donate books to a doctors office or hospital waiting room