Social Action Ideas for Families
Ideas from our Faithful Families blog:
Service Projects for Families with Primary-school Aged Children
- Have a look at the video on the LifeVestInside.com website. Show it to your children and ask them what it means to them? Discuss ways you might show kindness to the people around you each day during Lent.
- Have children cut out grocery coupons to give to a local parish or place where food is distributed to those in need.
- Make gift baskets for a nearby nursing home or assisted facility for older adults
- Schedule a time for families to hold and rock babies in a hospital nursery
- Be welcoming attendants as a family at a shelter or drop-in centre.
- As a family, volunteer to stuff envelopes or deliver a bulletin/magazine or a large mailing at your church.
- No electricity night: This is a great idea to help your family think about their dependence on electricity and also how they might be able to reduce their energy consumption to help the environment. It also might help you all to think about how many people live throughout the world. Have a night at home where you cannot use anything that requires electricity. This includes cooking the meal and lights and everything else. Who copes best?
- Visit www.secondbite.org. SecondBite exists to provide access to fresh, nutritious food for people in need across Australia. We do this by rescuing and redistributing surplus fresh food, building community capacity in food skills and nutrition and advocating for an end to food insecurity.
- One really interesting way to get your family involved in service is to go on a volunteering holiday. By doing this your family can go somewhere different, meet new people and get involved in making a difference in the world. Organisations such as http://www.volunteerholiday.com.au arrange and oversee the trips and provide guides and other necessary information.