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You are never too young to make an impact. If you are a child who wants to give back to your community, trying to fulfill volunteer hours, or want to be a part of something bigger than yourself, and you don't know where to start here are some amazing organizations geared towards youth. Let them help YOU turn your passion into ACTION!
Bucket Filling for the K-5 Student
Bucket Filling for the K-5 Student
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Give families or patients at your local hospital something small to carry in their pockets and rub when they feel anxious. Worry stones are a simple way to bring great comfort! You can find smooth stones to paint or use polymer clay to make your own. Worry Stone Craft Link
Bon Bon's Worry Stones Classroom Activity
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Bon Bon's Worry Stones Classroom Activity
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These Painted Heart Worry Stones are easy to make, and a wonderful coping tool for kids who experience separation anxiety at daycare, school, or any time they’re away from their parents. With a heart on the front and a message on the back, they can be carried in a pocket to provide comfort whenever a child feels lonely or anxious.​ Worry Stone Craft Link
No Sew Sleep Masks
No Sew Sleep Masks
Sleep Masks provide relief for tired families on unusual sleeping schedules. DIY Sleep Mask Link
Jars of Joy
Jars of Joy
Fill regular-sized mason jars or plastic jars with small items that will make families who have to stay at the hospital, young patients, or patients at local Assisted Living Homes smile. Decorate your jars or create themes for each jar!
Pack the Pantry
Pack the Pantry
Support your local Ronald McDonald House, Food Pantry, Salvation Army Shelter, or any local shelter in need. ​
Cardz For Kidz
Cardz For Kidz
Provide support, smiles, and encouragement to children, families, seniors, and veterans in hospitals, schools, senior living, and rehabilitation centers is our number one priority.​ ​Cardz for Kidz Website
Project Linus
Project Linus
At Project Linus, a non-profit organization, we provide new handmade blankets to children in need. Our blankets are lovingly made by adults and children from all walks of life and many different sources. Project Linus Website
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation
Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation
Our mission is to change the lives of children with cancer through funding impactful research, raising awareness, supporting families, and empowering everyone to help cure childhood cancer. Here, you can learn about Alex and her lemonade stand and check out the things that other kids are doing to raise money to help find cures for cancer. We hope that you'll want to get involved too!
Send Letters to the Troops
Send Letters to the Troops
We collect and distribute millions of letters of thanks and support and send them directly to our active, reserve, and veteran military. A Million Thanks Website
Create Blessing Bags
Create Blessing Bags
Blessing Bags are ziplock bags filled with food and other items that are then given out to people living on the streets or in shelters. Blessing Bag Examples
Coat Collection
Coat Collection
Hold a coat collection for children who are in need of warm coats during the winter. JuJu's Jackets Facebook
Pick Up Trash on the Side of the Road
Pick Up Trash on the Side of the Road
Pick up litter in your neighborhood or wildlife area. Put each piece of trash in a box or garbage bag, then recycle or throw it away when you’re done.
Help a Neighbor
Help a Neighbor
Walk dogs, collect mail, shovel snow, or rake leaves for someone in your neighborhood who needs the help.
No-Se​w Scarfs
No-Se​w Scarfs
Homemade Scarfs can help to provide warmth for lots of people from underprivileged kids overseas to adults in shelters. No-Sew Scarf Example
10 Simple Ways Kids Can Volunteer In Their Communities And Make A Difference
10 Simple Ways Kids Can Volunteer In Their Communities And Make A Difference
These days, so many of us are feeling like we want to do something to address the inequalities, injustice, and heartbreak we see in the world and our communities. We are looking for concrete ways to make an impact, to do something — anything — for those who are in need or struggling. Article Website
16 Ways Kids Can Give Back without Leaving the House
16 Ways Kids Can Give Back without Leaving the House
It’s so important to give back to our community, and this is a lesson we especially want to teach our kids now more than ever. Even though there’s not a lot of in-person volunteering going on right now, kids can still give back to their community through volunteering projects they can do at home. Whether they choose to befriend an elderly neighbor, send thank you notes to the military or support their local animal shelter, kids will learn that helping others makes them feel good, too!Article Website
No-Sew Dog Toys
No-Sew Dog Toys
Do you have a stack of old t-shirts? Then turn them into something useful and make these 5 different T-shirt dog toys that your pup will love or make some no-sew dog toys for animals in shelters using inexpensive fleece remnants or old torn jeans. Examples!
20 Volunteer Ideas for Kids: An Age-by-Age Guide to Doing Good
20 Volunteer Ideas for Kids: An Age-by-Age Guide to Doing Good
From sorting recyclables to taking part in a rally for a good cause, these community service ideas for kids will make giving back second nature. Article Website