Kindness in schools around the world!
Being kind at school is super important because kindness makes it a nice place to learn and make friends.
Lots of schools have students who are good at showing kindness. Some even have kindness clubs! Take a look at some of the things some schools have done and think if you might be able to do something similar at your school.


Students knit with love at Westwood Elementary and Zue Bales Intermediate - Texas, USA
“A clique (or two) a day keeps boredom at bay,” say the third graders in the Bales Knit Club. In its 15th year, the Club has seventy-plus knitters. The group meets bright and early on Tuesday mornings to add stitches to their bookmarks, scarves, blanket patches, or baby hats. Volunteers from the community and mentors from 4th & 5th grades assist by teaching the knit stitch, unknotting unruly yarn, and encouraging the students to keep on keepin’ on. One stitch at a time, rows turn in to finished products, bringing smiles to the knitters as well as to the recipients of this service-learning opportunity.
The club has knitted thousands of baby hats which they took to local hospitals and sent to Columbia, Ethiopia, Bangladesh, India, and Africa through Save the Children and missionaries. Their bookmarks and blankets go to local nursing home residents.
















Today, a community member was crossing Portage Avenue on her way to the school at the end of the day. She told me she heard a student say "there's only 15 seconds left - we don't have time to cross" and saw him put out his arms to keep everyone behind him from crossing. The kids waited behind him and safely crossed the street when the light turned. She was impressed that the student took it upon himself to look out for his friends and other students.
- from a teacher at George Waters Middle School


Students at Landolt Elementary started a kindness club. Click the picture to see how to start one!




Kindness given by students are Waverley Meadows Primary School - Victoria, Australia


A bulletin board displaying student's acts of kindness displayed at Waverley Meadows Primary School in Victoria, Australia


An amazing Peace Garden constructed by the school community at Zue Bales Intermediate - Texas, USA
Students in grades 3-5 at Bales Intermediate worked in partnership with the Kindness Team at Kids For Peace to create this Peace Garden, a serenity spot next to their Playful Hearts Playground where students can sit to get quiet, be mindful, and heal.
Every child was invited to paint an inspirational message of kindness and compassion onto a rock as a part of their Art class. Teachers did the same at a faculty meeting; families and community members were included at a special Saturday Paint for Peace gathering. Kids for Peace also added rocks from school families around the globe who donated to the 2017-2018 #KindCoins campaign for Hurricane Relief.














Kind ideas from students at Butler Elementary - Illinois, USA


Mow someone's lawn when they're at work. - Merissa


Straighten up the class library for your teacher. - Jimal


Make friends with the new kid at school. - Bryce


Pick up a book that someone drops. - Meghan


Help your mom with the groceries. - Gregory


Give your mom a hug. Take out the trash for your dad. - Alicia


Help your friends by taking out the trash. - Marcus
Anjelique is a fifth-grader who brought me this bag filled with origami Post Its, all with a beautiful message about kindness and joy tucked inside. She brought them with this request: To please send them to Puerto Rico to comfort the kids who went through hurricane Maria just after we went through hurricane Harvey.




So ... I did. I have a friend at Colegio Radians in Puerto Rico and off they went in two separate envelopes to the US territory across the Gulf.






A month or so later, Anjelique received Priority Mail from the island ... this note and some newly-folded origami for her, with love. Her kindness was appreciated and returned.
- Barbara Gruener, Counselor, Texas, USA
Kindness kids reported at their school

