Simple Safe Service Projects

Simple Safe Service

These simple and safe service project guides provide a starting point for individuals or groups of young people looking to make a difference with their time and talent. 

Environmental Themes:

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1. Pet Toys from Recycled T-Shirts: Make comfort toys and blankets for the animals who are waiting to be adopted.
2. Grow Something to Give: Grow a plant from seeds and give the plant to cheer someone's day.
3. Earth Day Scavenger Hunt: Look for items in nature from a shared list, then connect with others to compare what you found and share ideas about the joy of nature.
4. Bird Feeder from Recycled Materials: Make and decorate a bird feeder and enjoy the visitors from the window.
5. Bee and Butterfly Garden: Create a welcome environment for bees and beneficial insects by providing water and flowering plants.
6. Reduce Plastic - Drink from Reusable Water Bottles! Conduct research on the quality of water in your community or home. Tell your friends and community members to stop buying bottled water and carry a reusable water bottle. 

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Creative Arts

1. Neighborhood Ladybug Hunt: Make a game of decorating and hiding treasures for younger neighbors to find. 
2. Boost Happiness with Art: Lift others’ spirits with kind messages and art in windows and on sidewalks.
3. Uplifting Art in the Community: Have fun making creative art from natural or recycled items. Give the art to someone to brighten their day. 
4. ABCs of Advocacy:  Share your knowledge and ideas for action about an issue you care about through writing and illustrating an ABC book. 

Civic Action

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1. Reduce Food Waste: Examine the habits in the community or in your house and propose ways to reduce food waste.
2. Advocacy Posters: Images and words together can inform and persuade to make change. 
3. Equity in Your Library: Look for gaps and make a proposal to grow the diversity of the books and challenge yourself and others to learn about people and the world from different perspectives. 
4. Family Donation Decision: This family activity brings together passions and heart for doing good.

Communicating Care

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1. Shout Out to Teachers: Let your teacher, coach, or group leader know you appreciate them.
2. Listen with Generosity: Practice active listening that values another's experience.
3. Gratitude Pen Pals: Help people look on the bright side by writing letters.
4. Joy of Reading: The act of reading to someone is gift enough, and we add to the service when the book encourages us to talk about important ideas that build community.
5. Spark a Giving Conversation: One conversation may spark another and spread generosity like ripples in the larger community. 
6. Beauty Campaign: Encourage people to define beauty as the things that make us unique, resilient, powerful, and thoughtful of others.

Helping Neighbors

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1. Gratitude for Essential Workers: Let our essential workers know we care with kind messages of thanks and gratitude.
2. Compassionate Expressions: Respond to a traumatic event or loss by sending words of encouragement and empathy to victims or survivors to let them know you care and they are not alone. 
3. Make and Donate Masks: Make homemade masks from materials you have at home and donate to friends, community members, and local nonprofits. 
4. Inequities in Education: Research different ways people have been impacted by the pandemic. Use writing to communicate an idea to make one inequity a little more fair.
5. Spread Peace - Say Something: Start a movement with your friends to use their voice to spread peace, positive messages, and kindness. The world needs your voice. 
6. Help Neighbors with Yard Work: Volunteer your time and talent to rake, mow, weed, or plant.