7 Ways to Bless Others With Your Baking Skills
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Teaching our kids to serve others is such a valuable opportunity we have in our homeschools. In this post, I’ll share some creative ways you can spend time baking with your kids and bless others at the same time.
Baking is something that I really enjoy doing – especially this time of year, and especially as my kids are getting older and can help more in the kitchen! It’s fun to teach them how to make recipes that have become seasonal traditions for our family, and spend meaningful time together.
If your kids love being creative in the kitchen, I have a few great ways you can use that passion to teach them to spread joy and make a positive impact on someone else. Some of these ideas you have no doubt seen before, but I think you might find one or two new ways you can help your kids bless others with their baking.
I think that the practice of making something to donate or give away is a very beneficial thing to do. So often (I have seen it in my own kids!) we have a tendency towards selfishness – wanting to keep what we have spent so much time and effort on (and no doubt is delicious!).
Baking for the purpose of serving others is a great way to reinforce selflessness and being giving of our time and talents.
Baking with Kids to Make a Difference
The ideas below are simple, but can have a big impact on both your kids and those they choose to bless. I challenge you to choose just one to try this week:
- Host a Christmas dinner for widows and widowers at your church. This can be done at your home or church! This one might take a little bit of planning, and can be especially fun to do around a holiday. If the idea of hosting a dinner for multiple guests is not an option, you can reach out to a widow that you know and offer to bring a meal any time of the year.
- Make baked goods with your kids to deliver to firemen or police officers on Christmas morning. This can also be done year-round! Maybe some Christmas-in-July cookies would be a fun idea to make with the kids this year.
- Prepare a meal or dessert to bring to a sick or elderly friend. Barefeet in the Kitchen has a lot of great suggestions for delivering meals.
- Make baked goods to deliver to your neighbors. Here is a great list of easy cookies to make and share from The Restful Home. Super easy and quick ideas here that your kids will love to help with!
- Host a holiday cookie baking party and take the treats to a local homeless shelter. If you need some easy recipes and suggestions on hosting a party, Pinch of Yum has you covered!
- Go caroling and leave treats at each house! Never been caroling? Here’s a checklist from Scholastic with tips (and songs to sing!)
- Host a hot chocolate stand in your neighborhood and donate proceeds to a charity. Here is a great hot chocolate recipe from My Life and Kids.
For any of your treats that you make to give, here are some fun printable tags you can attach! Just print on a piece of cardstock, label, cut, and you’re good to go! Click below to grab yours:
Remember – you don’t have to have a “big plan” in place to give the gift of food. It can be as simple as doubling a recipe you are already making, and taking a meal to someone who might need it that week.
Baking for Charity
Did you know that there are organizations that exist to bridge the gap between the love of baking and raising money for charity? Check out the links below to see other ways you might be able to volunteer your baking skills, or simply spread cheer and love to others through a delicious treat.
- For Goodness Cakes is a great organization that matches volunteers with foster children and at-risk youth to bring them birthday cakes! You can see if there is a chapter near you on their website (and if not – you might start one!). You can volunteer to make cakes, or simply donate online.
- Cake 4 Kids is a similar organization that works to bring birthday cakes to underserved kids in shelters, low income families, or even homeless.
- Check out Spread the Bread and join their mission to “bake a difference”. They have a great story on their website you can share with your kids, and a printable to get you started on your own bread-baking mission!
Reflecting on Our Service
When you take the time to serve with your kids, it’s a good idea to have a discussion with them to help them solidify what they are learning from the experience. A few questions you might ask are:
Do you like receiving gifts? How do you feel when someone gives you something unexpected?
How do you think other people feel when we give to them?
How did it feel to give away something that you worked hard to make?
How did you make a difference today? Was the experience what you expected?
How can we continue to serve others? Who can we bless next?
Don’t Miss the 12 Days of Serving Others Series
This post is part of the series “12 Days of Serving Others”. In this series, you’ll find great tips and ideas on how you can incorporate service and volunteering into your homeschool all year.
I’ll link the rest of the series posts here to make it easy to navigate!
- Something Important That Might Be Missing From Your Homeschool
- The “Giving Box” and Other Ways Kids Will Love to Donate
- How Your Creative Cards Can Make a Big Impact
- Helping Our Furry Friends: Fun Ways Kids Can Get Involved
- The Best Boxes You’ll Ever Pack
- One Wreath Can Make a Difference
- Random Acts of Kindness: How to Make Them a Habit
- Why You’ll Want to Host a “Packing Party” This Season
- Crafted With Love: Wonderful Service Projects for Crafty Kids!
- How To Begin Volunteering With Your Family
- 7 Ways to Bless Others With Your Baking Skills
- How to Build a Great Foundation for Service With Your Kids
Comment below and let me know – do you love to “bake a difference?” What is your favorite memory of doing so?
This post is also part of the 12 Days of Homeschooling Fun Through the Holidays Series. Click here to check out the other amazing bloggers who are a part of this, and to enter the giveaway!
Related Posts
- A Family Acts of Kindness Sunbeam Challenge
- How to Build a Great Foundation for Service With Your Kids
- Random Acts of Kindness: How to Make Them a Habit
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