Ideas for giving back:

--Have kids take their red wagon out and collect non-perishable food for food banks.
--Operation Christmas Child: have kids help with both filling boxes and delivering boxes to the collection center.
--Go online to Compassion International, look for the children that have been waiting over a year and let your child pick one out to send $30 a month to. They will send you pictures of the child you support.
--If your child has really long hair and wants to cut it, encourage her to donate her hair to Locks of Love. Explain who the kids are that benefit from this organization and why they need the hair donations.
--Have them choose some toys to give to kids who don't have many (kids at a domestic violence shelter, for example).
--On holidays, serve food at a shelter together.
--To give back to the community, pick up trash at a park before you start to play.