I love the classrooms that look cozy with Christmas decorations. As I scroll through Pinterest, I decided that I wanted my classroom to have a cozy Christmas feel, but with decorations made by our class. The man issue was TIME. I can barely find the time to teach the main subjects, how was I going to mix in a craft? Well just like working out, we make time for what we want.
I whipped up these light bulb note cards. Print on colored paper, or black and white and have students decorate themselves.
I recommend cutting the paper in fourths and when kids write on it, they can cut out the outline of the lightbulbs.
The goal is for students to write an act of kindness that another student did. I love highlighting good deeds, especially when the kids are the ones highlighting it! Keep a stack of the bulbs in a basket so the kids can just get up on their own and write a good deed if they need to. My class does year round “kindness links“. Read the blog post where I explained how I organized and manage the links which will help you for this activity also. Click {HERE} to read more about it.
To make it easier to place on yarn. Keep a hole punch near the basket that contains the lightbulbs (or nearby wherever you plan to keep the stack of papers). Just tell kids to make one punch on each side of the light bulb (thing) haha—I have NO IDEA WHAT IT IS CALLED 😉
To really celebrate kindness, I have the kid that wrote the note about the other student GIVE the note to that kid. The child that did the kind act can read it, feel warm and fuzzy, then go hang the lightbulb on the yarn (or fishing wire for a prettier display).
Place strings of light around the classroom to really brighten up the room! To snag this template for free {CLICK HERE}
Deb Hanson
December 5, 2015 at 2:43 pmI LOVE this, Amber! Thank you!!
Jennifer Harper CT FAC
December 5, 2015 at 3:14 pmThis is wonderful!! Exactly what my class needs right now. Thank you for sharing!
Christina Innis
December 6, 2015 at 6:50 pmLOVE this! Just downloaded! Thank you!
Cassandra
December 16, 2016 at 4:06 amHello!
How do I download this? I’m new to the site just trying it figure it out. Thank you!
Angela S
December 6, 2015 at 9:19 pmAmber, this is SO stinkin' cute. I just pinned it AND I am going to turn this into a hallway display. Thanks so much for sharing and for linking up with us. You rock!
Angela
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Kristen
November 9, 2016 at 11:45 pmLOVE THIS!!!
Jen L.
November 10, 2016 at 6:21 pmThis is not only cute but a wonderful way to bring in positivity to the classroom especially around the holidays! Kids of all ages can enjoy this and I can’t wait to use it in my classroom!
Jodene
November 10, 2016 at 10:32 pmSuch a great idea! Thank you for sharing I am going to use this!
Elizabeth
November 14, 2016 at 7:49 pmWhat a great idea! Thank you!
Lori
November 17, 2016 at 2:18 pmThank you for posting this and it’s …… FREE! These will look great in our classroom and hallways at our Catholic School. Thank you again, Amber!
Carolyn
November 21, 2016 at 3:01 pmExcellent idea! My class needs this right now to encourage the kind acts.
Sally
November 22, 2016 at 1:22 pmThanks so much!! My kiddos are going to love this (me too)!!
Debbie
November 22, 2016 at 1:37 pmSuch a great idea. Thanks
Heather
December 4, 2016 at 1:06 amI am starting this activity on Monday. I cannot wait to see the students in my classroom complimenting each other. The the lighting up begin! It’s going to be so bright we are going to need shades. Thank you.
Ashley Wiilliams
November 28, 2016 at 11:40 pmThank you so much for this idea! I started this today with my class. Our whole 1st grade (11 classes) are going to do this and string it down the hallway!
Andrea
December 6, 2016 at 6:49 pmI absolutely love your light bulbs. I’m going to implement your kindness idea into my Sunday School and allow my children to list ways that they have been kind to others. I’ll make the connection by teaching about the kind acts God did for mankind…..the greatest of which was sacrificing his only son, Jesus. Once again, thanks!
Heidi
December 12, 2016 at 1:08 amCan’t wait to introduce these to my 3rd graders!
Kat
February 4, 2017 at 7:46 pmI love this so much! We used it at the holidays, and now we are keeping it going with regular lightbulbs to light our classroom with kindness throughout the year! Thanks for the great idea and template!
Teacher
February 24, 2017 at 9:36 pmWow that was unusual. I just wrote an really long
comment but after I clicked submit my comment didn’t show
up. Grrrr… well I’m not writing all that over again. Anyway, just wanted to say excellent blog!