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Acts of Kindness- Giving to the World Through Missions

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Toddler Approved is hosting a wonderful project called the 100 Acts of Kindness Project. I love the idea of JDaniel and I doing things for others between Jan. 15th and Valentine’s Day.Each week she puts up a challenge for you to complete as some of your 100 Acts of Kindness.

This week’s challenge was to give to world. Our church is hosting its missions conference this week. How wonderful that it is being held during Toddler Approved’s give to the world challenge.

Giving a Buffet Item to an International Dinner

The missions conference started with an international dinner in the fellowship hall. The Sunday school class my husband and I belong to was to bring something from the Orient. I decided to make something quick and easy from the frozen food section at Aldi. Our dish is shrimp-fried rice that was defrosted and heated up on our very own stove.

Once we got there JDaniel and I had fun checking out all the foods that people had brought to share and deciding what to put on our plates. My husband had volunteered to work the book table and so we saved him a place at the table but, didn’t wait for him to come to dig into the treasures we had found.

I took this picture when we dropped off our food. The table couldn’t be seen after people added their food to the table and started to fill their plates.

Learning About Other Cultures and Crafting

JDaniel loved exploring the tables set up by the various missionaries.

The Sunday school director decided that it would be fun for the children to create cards and gift for the missionaries. I volunteered to be downstairs with JDaniel’s class during the opening session of the missions conference so, I got to help make fun things too.

Acts of Kindness- Giving Others a Heart Attack

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100 Acts of Kindness

Toddler Approved is hosting a wonderful project called the 100 Acts of Kindness Project. I love the idea of JDaniel and I doing things for others between Jan. 15th and Valentine’s Day.Each week she puts up a challenge for you to complete as some of your 100 Acts of Kindness.

This week’s challenge was to give someone a “Heart Attack”. The goal of this challenge is to surprise people you care about. Some people decorated doorways and others crafted special gifts.

What did we do?

We made desserts to take to JDaniel’s grandmas. I am not a baker so each cake went to the oven with a prayer said over it. The surprise for each grandma is that I actually baked something with my cooking helper. (JDaniel)

My mom (JDaniel’s Grandmere) got a chocolate cheery dump cake.

It doesn’t look yummy but, I really was.

Chocolate Dump Cake
Ingredients:
1 box of double chocolate cake mix
2 can of cherry pie topping
2 sticks on butter
Directions:
1. Lightly grease the bottom of a 9 x 13 casserole dish.
2. Spread the cherries evenly on the bottom of the casserole dish.
3. Spread the dry cake mix over the cherries.
4. Cut the two sticks of butter into small pats and spread the over the cake mix.
5. Bake in a 350 degree oven for 45-50 minutes.

My mother in-law (JDaniel’s Nana) got red velvet cake. I didn’t do anything special to make it. I just followed the directions on the box and made butter cream frosting. The cake isn’t really pretty. I think I am going to cut into slices and take the slices on a platter to her house.

 

 

100 Acts of Kindess With Toddler Approved

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100 Acts of Kindness

Toddler Approved is hosting a wonderful project called the 100 Acts of Kindness Project. I love the idea of JDaniel and I doing things for others between Jan. 15th and Valentine’s Day. Each week she puts up a challenge for you to complete as some of your 100 Acts of Kindness.

I decided to try to do the challenges she purposed along with working on acts of kindness I would like JDaniel to master like not having a tantrum when I say it is “Quiet Time” in the afternoon and cleaning his room without fussing. Yes, I am straying from the project, but boy has JDaniel toned down his fussing.

Recording Acts of Kindness

The first thing we were asked to do was come up with a way to record our acts of kindness. I decided we would do three things to keep track of our kindness.

  1. Create a record sheet to write down what we did. I decided that we needed to show kindness to family, our community, and our world.
  2. Mark off a number box on a hundred grid each time we did an act of kindness.
  3. Savor the act of kindness by eating a jelly bean from a bottle labeled with the people group we helped.

This Week’s Challenge

Make 5 “Thank You” cards and give them to people you’ve never thought to thank before.

What did we do? 

JDaniel and I made thank you cards for his Sunday school teachers. We haven’t thanked them for all the work they do each Sunday with him.

100 Acts of Kindness - Using a Salad Spinner
We used watered-down red paint, a ball, and a salad spinner to create these pretty cards.

On Monday Toddler Approved will be posting the next challenge for the week. I will be posting how we met that challenge next Saturday. I hope you will join me in the challenge!

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