Valentine’s Day Kindness Project 2025
Spread Love with the 2025 Valentine’s Day Kindness Project!
The month of love is here, and what better way to celebrate than by showing kindness to those in our community? This Valentine’s Day, get your kids involved in a heartwarming project that spreads cheer and teaches the importance of giving back.
How You Can Help:
Create Valentine’s Day cards for local hospitals to brighten the days of patients and staff. Want to expand the love? This year, we’re adding the option to make cards for firefighters! If you choose this option, be prepared to deliver your cards directly to an assigned station or mail them to a non-local station.
Important Dates:
Cards must be delivered by Monday, February 10 to ensure they reach their destinations in time.
Sign up: Valentine’s Day Kindness Project
Let’s work together to make this Valentine’s Day extra special for our community!
Thank you to our 2025 Valentine’s Day Kindness Partner
How to Participate in the Valentine’s Day Kindness Project
This fun and meaningful project can be completed with your family, friends, school, Boy or Girl Scout troop, sports team, or any group that loves to spread kindness!
Step 1: Register
Parents, please register here to help us estimate how many cards will be created.
Step 2: Gather Supplies
Pull together arts and crafts materials such as construction paper, markers, crayons, stickers, stamps, and more. Need ideas? Check out our DIY Valentine Card ideas.
Important: Please do not include any candy with your cards.
Step 3: Create Cards
This project can be done with friends, in a classroom, at a troop meeting, or simply at home with your family. Encourage kids to get creative and have fun—this is a great way to teach the joy of giving back!
Tips for Making Cards:
- Include your child’s first name and age.
- Use general good wishes suitable for a diverse patient population. Avoid religious or sectarian references and “get well” phrases.
- Great examples: “Best Wishes,” “Thinking of you today,” “Sending sunny wishes your way,” or “Happy Valentine’s Day!”
- Cards don’t need envelopes, but if you include them, leave them unsealed.
Step 4: Teach the Value of Kindness
While creating cards, talk to your kids about the impact of their kindness. Use these conversation starters from Abby Withee, MFT:
- “We’re making these cards for people in the hospital who are sick. How do you think they’ll feel when they receive a special card?”
- “What would make you feel happy if you weren’t feeling well?”
- “How does it make you feel to know your cards will bring joy to others?”
- “What else can we do to be kind and spread happiness?”
Discuss the idea of being a “bucket filler.” Explain that kind acts fill up an invisible bucket inside each of us with good feelings, both when we give and when we receive kindness.
For more inspiration, check out Abby Withee’s post: Growing Your Heart With Gratitude by Abby Withee, MFT.
Let’s work together to spread love and joy this Valentine’s Day!
Drop your cards off at these locations by Monday, Feb 10, 2025
South Bay Credit Union Locations
PCH Branch
312 N. Pacific Coast Highway. Redondo Beach, CA 90277
Lobby Hours
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 9a.m. – 5p.m.
Wednesday: 10a.m. – 5p.m.
Artesia Branch
2023 Artesia Blvd. Redondo Beach, CA 90278
Lobby Hours
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 9a.m. – 5p.m.
Wednesday: 10a.m. – 5p.m.
Lomita Branch
24520 Narbonne Avenue. Lomita, CA 90717
Lobby Hours
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 9a.m. – 5p.m.
Wednesday: 10a.m. – 5p.m.
“Although we appear so connected through social media, the kind of meaningful connection we need as human beings has diminished greatly in today’s world. Research by Kristin Neff and others shows that the key to happiness is self-compassion, and self compassion comes from a combination of mindfulness and connectedness. We need to feel connected to know we are not alone and others experience the same ups and downs that we do. So how do we increase connectedness for ourselves and our children?
Acts of kindness are a great way to start and easy for kids to understand and join in on. Doing something for another without expecting something in return is a valuable lesson for children and opens up the opportunity for conversations about gratitude, helping, and other family values you may have. In addition, an act of kindness can give us an endorphin, the”feel good” neurotransmitters, greater than getting something. That can make kindness habit forming!” – Abby Withee, MFT, www.thatthingisaidinsession.com
Click here to pre-register
All cards must be received by Monday, Feb 10, 2025.
Cards will be delivered to Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center Torrance and Torrance Memorial Medical Center. If you work for a local hospital and would like cards, please email us info@localanchor.com
