MiaLisa Millares
Belonging Activity with Author Laura Purdie ...

Originally recorded on October 19, 2024. In this session, author Laura Purdie Salas leads an interactive activity designed to foster a sense of belonging and community.

Belonging Activity with Author Laura Purdie Salas
MiaLisa Millares
Family Art Session with Anti-Racist Art Teachers

Originally recorded on October 19, 2024, this empathy-filled art session is designed for the whole family.

MiaLisa Millares
6-Day Summer Kindness Camp

Carve out a week to focus on kindness this summer! This 6-day at-home summer camp will help your family build valuable life skills while doing kind acts for others.

MiaLisa Millares
Tips and Tools for Kindness with Tweens and ...

Originally recorded on April 30, 2024, this was a conversation filled with ways to inspire youth to make small but meaningful ways to inspire and support teens and tweens as they share kindness in their communities.

Tips and Tools for Kindness with Tweens and Teens with Natalie Silverstein
MiaLisa Millares
Celebrating Caregivers with Projects for ...

Use this ebook to talk about and recognize the wonderful people who show your family how to care for others.

Celebrating Caregivers with Projects for Big-Hearted Families

Raise an Upstander with Creative Anti-Bullying Projects

This toolkit will help your whole family practice being "upstanders." This e-book includes:

  • Our Family of Upstanders, a series of creative prompts for discussing, drawing, and writing about your strategy to stand up to bullies.

  •  “Be an Upstander,” a 12-Week Kindness Challenge designed to help you make a difference

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Read The Giant Hug by Sandra Horning

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Follow a hug on its heart-warming adventure through the postal system all the way to Granny’s house.

  • Print and cut your conversation starters.

  • Let kids take the lead and ask their favorite questions.

  • Keep cards with the book for next time with these self-adhesive library pockets.

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Read Lend a Hand by John Frank

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So much good is captured in the pages of this book. Kind acts of children are captured in the thoughtful, observant way only poetry can accomplish. 

  • Print and cut your conversation starters.

  • Let kids take the lead and ask their favorite questions.

  • Keep cards with the book for next time with these self-adhesive library pockets.

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Read Each Kindness by Jacquiline Woodson

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When Chloe and her friends reject new girl Maya, she learns a valuable lesson about accepting people. And the regret of missing an opportunity to share kindness.

  • Print and cut both pages of conversation starters.

  • Let kids take the lead and ask their favorite question.

  • Keep cards with the book for next time with these self-adhesive library pockets.

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Read The Kindness Quilt by Nancy Elizabeth Wallace

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Children are universally inspired to mimic the classroom activity featured in this book. As soon as reading time ends, check out, DGT’s a special project printable to pair with this book.

  • Print and cut both pages of conversation starters.

  • Let kids take the lead and ask their favorite question.

  • Keep cards with the book for next time with these self-adhesive library pockets.

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Read The Forgiveness Garden

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We’ve all felt hurt and angry at times. We have all been tempted to strike back. This parable helps us see how reconciliation saves everyone.

  • Print and cut both pages of conversation starters.

  • Let kids take the lead and ask their favorite question.

  • Keep cards with the book for next time with these self-adhesive library pockets.

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Read Ordinary Mary's Extraordinary Day by Emily Pearson

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Mary, as ordinary as any other kid, starts a ripple of kindness with one special delivery. Kids will be inspired as they watch kindness circle the globe.

  • Print and cut both pages of conversation starters.

  • Let kids take the lead and ask their favorite question.

  • Keep cards with the book for next time with these self-adhesive library pockets.

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Read The Three Questions by Jon J Muth

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Based on a short story by Leo Tolstoy, The Three Questions invites you along on one boy’s quest to discover the secret to being a good person. Read more about the amazing message of this story in DGT’s popular post: 6 Ways to Work for a More Compassionate Community.

  • Print and cut both pages of conversation starters.

  • Let kids take the lead and ask their favorite question.

  • Keep cards with the book for next time with these self-adhesive library pockets.

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Read The Money Tree by Sarah Stewart

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This curious story is sure to launch some interesting conversations with your family. Miss McGillicuddy’s has a very unusual tree growing in her yard.

  • Print and cut both pages of conversation starters.

  • Let kids take the lead and ask their favorite questions.

  • Keep cards with the book for next time with these self-adhesive library pockets.

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Explore Nature with Creative, Compassion-Building Activities

The more we know about the natural world, the more we are inspired to care for it. With this in mind, we’ve created tools to bring your family together to observe nature, enjoy the outdoors, and protect natural resources.

This book-based toolkit has been designed to accompany The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry, a story that elegantly demonstrates this point. A napping tree-cutter is visited by the wondrous creatures of the Amazon rainforest.  Readers, along with the woodcutter, learn much from the animals as they explain the great importance of the forest.

  • Big-Hearted Cut & Keep Conversation Cards to enrich your conversation about The Great Kapok Tree by Lynne Cherry

  • My Nature Journal, a one-of-a-kind collection of 17 activities including creative writing, drawing, and mindfulness prompts

  • "Heal the Earth,” a 12-Week Kindness Challenge designed to help you make a difference




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Get Creative Outside with DGT's Nature Journal

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Click here to print our one-of-a-kind nature journal. This exclusive member download is designed to bring mindfulness to your next family hike. It features 12 pages of prompts and games to encourage exploration.

TALK about it!

  • Ask each member of your family: what is your favorite place to enjoy nature? Why?

  • Parents, where did you feel most connected to nature when you were a child? What made it special?

READ about it!

When you head out on your next hike, bring along Fun with Nature and More Fun with Nature (Take Along Guides) both by Mel Boring, Diane Burns, and Leslie Dendy. Kids will love learning about the most common creatures, tracks, and trees they're likely to encounter in North America. These books will turn every trip to the park into a scavenger hunt!

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Create a More Welcoming Community with Special Projects for National Night Out™

Doing Good Together™ has created three community-centered projects perfect for any National Night Out™ celebration. Each of the three featured projects has been designed to inspire neighbors, young and old, to become ambassadors for good in their community.

This E-Book (a NEW freebie for members) tells you how!

TALK about it!

Why is it important for neighbors to build relationships with one another?

READ about it!

Track down a copy of Communities in My World by Ella Cane to learn about how communities vary across the world. This book is filled with beautiful photographs and interesting facts.

Find Communities in My World and other community-minded titles in our collection of books about strengthening neighborhoods.

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Try This Fun, Book-Based Kindness Project

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Whether your family is celebrating Valentine's day or just shining a spotlight on compassion, this activity will make some fun memories! This download gives you everything you need to host a fun, book-based Valentine party for your family.

You'll receive a one-of-a-kind activity, conversation cards based on the book The Giant Hug by Sandra Horning, and a wonderful, vegetarian recipe.

The book-based conversation cards included in your download are designed for The Giant Hug by Sandra Horning  - not included but available via Amazon or at your local library.

TALK about it!

How can our family reach out and share kindness with others today?

Featuring fun conversation cards.

Featuring a creative random act of kindness project.

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