The Nice club
I can’t remember why were were talking about it, but I told Charlotte about a time when I was a member of a secret club that did nice things for people (I think it was called the Merry Men and Women or some such and my older sister Barb was a founder, but I don’t really know how it was founded exactly and by who).
Charlotte decided that she wanted to start a club called “The nice club†and do nice things for people. She asked me for ideas for what their club could do. I recommended picking up trash around the neighborhood, but I couldn’t come up with any other ideas that would actually be helpful to my neighbors and require no work from me. The kids decided to give little gifts to people and gave away some of Thomas’s toys which I had to ask them to retrieve. Then they decided to give away some of their own old and broken toys which, as you can imagine, were not cherished as they had hoped.
But I like the idea of them thinking of other people and doing nice things. So I ended up committing to bake something for them to give away. I gave them some paper, stickers and pens and had them make little cards that said “from the nice club†to attach to a treat:
So the next day I made them the simplest, cheapest thing I could think of—little chocolate cupcakes with no frosting. They were from a box mix and were not very tasty, but I didn’t have the time or energy to make them something better. Here they are getting ready to deliver some treats:
Do you have any fun ideas for The Nice Club which would require little work from their mother?