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Acts of Kindness: Library Goodies

February 6, 2015 • 9 Comments

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Our most favorite place to visit in the community is the library!  Each week we check out our limit of 50 books for kids in the blink of an eye.

The library that we frequent the most often has the kindest librarians.  My kids were recently impressed when one of the librarians referred to them by their names.

I’m always seeking opportunities for my kids to show kindness. Kristina at Toddler Approved and Megan at Coffee Cups and Crayons have a great series that features 100 acts of kindness that you and your kids can do leading up to Valentine’s Day.  I’m excited to be participating in that series today to share our library goodies project.

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Library Goodies

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Acts of Kindness:  Librarians

We decided to make sweet treats for the librarians.  I wanted my little ones to be able to help with most of the project so we came up with these easy “Dipping Rectangles” to make.  Cooking with kids is a wonderful way to build language skills.

Dipping Rectangles

These yummy dipping rectangles are a perfect gift to give to show an act of kindness!

Ingredients: 1 box of graham crakers, 1 package of white chocolate chips, 1 container of sprinkles

1.  Break each graham cracker into four rectangles.  We talked about breaking each one in half which formed a square and then breaking again to form rectangles.

2.  Let your child empty the bag of chocolate chips into a microwave safe bowl.  The adult should melt the chips in the microwave for about 35 seconds and then stir.

The kids get to be a part of cookie making for our random acts of kindness activity.

3.  The kids can now dip one end of the graham cracker into the chocolate.  Have them scrape the excess chocolate on the edge of the bowl.  Then, dip the cracker in the sprinkles.  Place on a piece of parchment paper to dry.

We packaged the goodies in small treat bags and placed them all in a decorative bag to deliver.

Acts of Kindness: Library Patrons

We also made book donation bags to leave at the library.  We picked four new books to have the librarians randomly give to families with children.

acts of kindness giving books

We placed each book in a gallon sized plastic bag that the kids decorated with stickers.

Give a reading book for a random act of kindness!

Bookmarks were also made to accompany each book in the bag.

When we delivered the bags, we asked the librarians to hand them out to the next four families that checked out books.

We had so much fun brightening the day of the librarians and the library patrons.  Best of all, we were sharing our love of reading!

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About Jodie Rodriguez

Jodie Rodriguez is a mom of two young boys and an early childhood/elementary educator with over 20 years of experience. Jodie's passion is helping parents, teachers, librarians and anyone else interested in nurturing and reaching ALL of our youngest growing readers.

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  1. Marg says

    February 16, 2015 at 7:48 am

    What beautiful ideas!

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  2. Rhonda Chapman says

    February 8, 2015 at 7:02 pm

    Nice way to get kids involved. Very creative idea!

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  3. Bonnie says

    February 6, 2015 at 11:48 am

    These are such cool ideas! I especially love the dipping rectangles.

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  4. Tammy says

    February 6, 2015 at 11:48 am

    What a wonderful idea for our librarians. They work so hard. Sharing

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    • Jodie Rodriguez says

      February 6, 2015 at 11:49 am

      Thank you so much Tammy! They do work so hard and we are so fortunate to have outstanding librarians.

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  5. Sharla Orren says

    February 6, 2015 at 11:42 am

    What a great idea!!!! I am on our county library board. I need to get my kids to do this for our library!!! Thanks for the idea!

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    • Jodie Rodriguez says

      February 6, 2015 at 11:49 am

      Great idea Sharla!

      Reply

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