Holiday Volunteering Ideas For Families

Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Kwanzaa

- Deliver holiday meals

- Collect food for a holiday dinner and give to Food Bank

- Help elderly in neighborhood decorate for holiday

- Go caroling in neighborhoods

- Donate decorations not used anymore

- Adopt a family (often through a school or place of worship)

- Ring bells for Salvation Army

- Send holiday cards to military personnel

- Drive seniors to holiday parties

- Spend part of the holiday with someone who is alone.

Martin Luther King Jr. Day

- Choose any one-day service project

- Take part in a celebration planned by the community

Valentine’s Day

- Make and deliver valentines, balloons and/or flowers to a hospital or nursing home

- Send valentines to people in the military

- Take cookies or other treats to a homeless shelter

Easter

- Deliver Easter baskets to homeless shelters. Consider including food, personal hygiene items, or small toys and candy for children.
- Deliver an Easter meal to a homebound person.
- Set up, cook, and serve an Easter meal (breakfast or dinner) at your place of worship.
- Organize an Easter egg hunt for your neighborhood.

Halloween

- Collect money for UNICEF (visit: www.unicef.org/trickortreat)
- Collect food for Food Bank while trick or treating
- Plan party for children at homeless shelter
- Coordinate a community party as an alternative to trick or treating
- Collect used costumes to donate to those who need costumes. Give to a school or local agency.
- Read Halloween stories to kids at the library.