Sell T-shirts or baked goods to raise money for causes such as Adopt An Acre of Rainforest or Habitat for Humanity. Adopt a grandparent at a local nursing home or retirement center. Donate to Red Cross Disaster Projects. Collect items for Red Cross Friendship boxes. Have each student put on a paper cape.
Students then go around the room and write a compliment on everyone elses cape.
List things that can be given, but not taken, such as friendship. Conduct a student discussion on which things are the most important to them and why. The quilt can be hung on a wall or bulletin board. Encourage students to become junior volunteers at a local hospital. Have students in shop classes build and give footstools to the elderly.