Classroom Kindness Mailbox
Your class elf opened a mailbox for kind words, and it takes deliveries all day.
A 10-minute idea for The Elf on the Shelf® or any elf doll.
What you need
- an empty tissue box
- paper strips and a marker
- a cup
How to set it up
- Label an empty tissue box Kindness Mail, using its opening as the mail slot.
- Sit your elf on one side of the box, and set paper strips and a cup with one name slip per student on the other.
- Have each student pick a name and mail one kind thing about that classmate, written or drawn, to hand out at day's end.
Safety check
Read the notes before handing them out so each one lands kindly, and write one yourself for any name left in the cup. How we check
Note from your elf: Now accepting kind words, all day. Every one counts.
Nice to have, never needed. a mini tin mailbox (Amazon): if you want to reuse it every December
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