A moment of kindness can make someone's day. Try out these ideas during random acts of kindness week or any time.
Do these little (but powerful) acts of kindness to bring light and love to your loved ones, your community, and the world.
I decided to put together a free little 30 Day Kindness Challenge to help motivate and inspire you to spread a little kindness and holiday cheer this month!
After my post today about street art buttons/portals, I received a request for places you can leave guerrilla art and random acts of kindness AKA art
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This Random Acts of Kindness Choice Board is the perfect way to foster kindness in your classroom! You can challenge students to complete all the squares in a certain time frame, or challenge them to complete one from each row or column in a week. For a fun twist, see who can get four in a row fir...
Guess what?! Today is World Kindness Day! This may be one of our favorite days of the year as it encourages you to do random acts of kindness throughout the day. We’ve made it super easy for you to spread kindness today! Check out our list below and spread a little cheer! Don’t forget to download …
For 105 of the best random acts of kindness that you can show to others, check out this blog post. Never again will you not have a plan to pay it forward.
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Faith in humanity: restored.
Even though vandalism is a criminal activity, it's not always wrong. Let's face it, creatives really do see beauty and humor in places where us mortals don't, so why not turn a blind eye to some of their shenanigans if they're making cities prettier?
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From this... To this... And this... And this... And this! Four-color Echo seems to be at the top of every weavers "To Do" list these days -- chiefly because of the flowing lines and delightful iridescence. There are lots of drafts out there, certainly, and many gifted weavers creating patterns. But how do they do it? And, more important, how can you do it on your own? It's all through the magic of weaving software -- in my case, Fiberworks Silver for Mac. Here are some basic steps I've learned in preparing to teach a workshop for the New Hampshire Weavers Guild in April. Step 1: Choose your yarn in 4 colors for your warp. This is not as easy as it sounds! I recommend starting with 10/2 cotton (or something similar in grist). To keep it simple, start with two colors that are analogous (next to each other) on the color wheel or close to it -- in my case, that was orange and yellow. Then move across the color wheel and choose two more analogous (or close to it) colors -- in my case, purple and blue. You'll want four colors that give you a broad chromatic range. Step 2: Calculate your sett, width in reed, and number of warp ends. For Echo, choose a sett that is denser than twill but less dense than double weave. So for 10/2 cotton I chose a sett of 36 epi. My warp was 400 ends, giving me a weaving width of about 11 1/6" in the reed. Step 3: Now for the designing. Let's work on 8 shafts, which is what I did for my samples. As always with the curves of Echo, you start with a design line, using the Freehand tool on Fiberworks. Here is a sample design line. (I am showing you a different design from the one I wove for the samples, because I don't want to give away my drafts before the workshop.) Step 4: Create a parallel threading. On the Warp dropdown menu, click on "Parallel Repeat." Then click on "Extended Parallel," then enter the number 4 in the box that says "Shafts Shift By." Make sure all the other boxes are unchecked, and then click "Apply." You'll get something like this. Each warp end in the original design line now has a parallel that is four shafts above it. (Sometimes the parallel appears to bounce around. The reason: For a warp end on shaft 8, the parallel thread that is 4 shafts "above" it is on shaft 1. Because we have only 8 shafts, we have to treat shaft 1 as the "9th" shaft, just as we would with a corkscrew twill.) Step 5: Create a 4-end parallel threading. Fiberworks has instructions on how to do this (which you'll find if you hover your cursor over the "Interleave" command in the drop-down menu under "Warp"). Essentially, it involves opening a second draft and cutting and pasting (really, interleaving) between two drafts. I found that a bit complicated, so I tried to do it another way. And it worked! How I did this: Starting with the parallel threading I created in the image above, I clicked once again on the "Parallel Repeat" option in the Warp dropdown menu. Like before, I clicked on "Extended Parallel" -- BUT this time I entered the number "2" in the box marked "Shafts Shift By." (And of course I made sure the other boxes were unchecked.) Makes sense, doesn't it? For a 4-end parallel threading on 8 shafts, you'll want an interval of 2 between each warp end (interval of 2 x 4-end parallel = 8). So this is how our 4-end parallel threading looks. Step 6: Add your colors. For the PC version, you have to add your colors by hand. For the Mac version, you follow these steps: On the Warp dropdown menu, click on "Fill Warp Colors," then scroll all the way down in the box at the top right to select "ABCD." Four colors will appear in the boxes and, for our demonstration purposes, just click "Replace." (You can play with colors to your heart's content once you've read this tutorial.) Here's how our threading draft looks now. Step 7: But what does the full drawdown look like? That, dear reader, is for you to determine. From this point on, you can follow the instructions for Echo tieups and treadlings that I laid out in my blog post here (on February 17, 2018), giving you steps to begin designing your own extended parallel threading drafts. But just to give you an idea of how our demonstration drawdown might look, here's one version. (I'm using a blue weft -- and don't forget, if you're working with 10/2 cotton for your warp, you'll want to use a 20/2 cotton -- about half the grist -- for your weft. And also don't forget that your weft colors will have a big impact on the overall look of your fabric.) It could use some tweaking for sure -- but not bad for starters. The design possibilities are endless! Thanks for reading.
If you're interested in outreach, real-world extensions of ELA, or character development, then you might be interested in random acts of kindness! {Scroll down for pics.} I first did this project last year, during my unit on A Christmas Carol, when I wanted to talk to students about the importance of NOT being like Scrooge! Students couldn't decide how they felt about it at first, but in their reflections afterward, they were almost unanimously glad that they did it! Though I'm using this to celebrate the holidays, I firmly believe you could use this anytime in the school year, especially with other novels, in bullying units, as homework over a break from school, or as a fun deviation from normal lessons. Here's how the project went (last year) Background research activity: Students learned what RAKs were and what other people around the world have done for them. In-class reflection & brainstorming: Students thought about what kinds of nice things they could do for others and themselves, and then made teacher-approved plans for their RAKs. Complete & reflect: students answered prompted questions in paragraph form and turn in reflections to tell me how their RAKs went. Narratives: Students wrote real or fictional stories about kindness! What I'm doing now (this year) This year, we have a slightly different calendar, and I don't have enough time to do all of the same steps as last year... so I simplified the project a little bit to make sure we could still do the experience. This year's edition is a simple front/back handout with short answer reflection questions (that we will hang in the hallway later). Part of the deal is that they have to list an adult who witnessed them do the RAK, and they have to attach a photograph and/or artifact to prove that they did it. Last year, one of the rules was that students could not spend any money; they were limited to gifts of time or talents, and I suggested a 30-60 minute minimum. (Students could use any supplies or materials that they already had in their homes, such as if they wanted to make cards or letters.) Though I think that went well - a lot of students opted to spend quality time with extended family or younger siblings - I think I might give them a $5 or $10 budget this year. I don't want them to "buy a grade" or compete, BUT I think some crafts and projects could merit a small budget. This year's handouts: Please don't judge my bad drawing skills! :-) This is a picture of me anonymously leaving cookies on my neighbor's porch. (There are more reflection questions on the back side, too.) I also decided that we needed to further define what RAKs were and what would count, so we broke down the term more... ... and we spent more time discussing ideas, with lists like... The Random Acts of Kindness foundation This Buzzfeed article This list from Pop Sugar This list from Good Housekeeping Magazine This list from Lifehack (Pinterest boards! Here's just one of MANY of them.) If you want to do this project with your class (or adapt it to your needs), grab the editable files from my Teachers Pay Teachers store!
You never know, it might be just the thing someone needs to hear.
Ever seen the movie "Pay it Forward"? The one where a boy decides to be paying a favor not back, but forward - repaying good deeds not with payback, but with new good deeds done to three new people. There is something just so powerful about unexpected acts of kindness that even the least emotional people can't stay untouched by such acts. Stories of doing something selfless for strangers are still rare enough to make the headlines or go viral on the Internet. Here are 22 random acts of kindness that left us teary-eyed. Take a look!
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