Richmond Macaroni Kid has joined a great project started by Richmond's own Patience Salgado. Check this out! The Magic Wand Project for Kids is a community adventure where kids can discover their kindness magic can change our world!
It all started when Patience Salgado of KindnessGirl.com overheard a conversation between her 2 kids in the backseat of a car while running errands one day. Her 5 year old came to the conclusion that magic must not be real and this is part of the response from her 7 year old brother:
"Magic doesn’t come from the world, it comes from people, and their kindness, that’s where magic comes from."
Salgado realized that kids are experts in kindness and magic so she had an idea. She found some old magic wands she had left over from a project long ago and wondered what would happen if we let all that kindness magic out into the world? How far could it go? What would happen if we let let kids show us the way? How would it change our city and communities? How would it change us?
So she and some friends left 100 magic wands in public spaces around Richmond, Va inviting kids to discover their magic by doing 3 acts of kindness and then leave the wand for another kid to find.
Kids and parents in other places loved the idea so much that kindness magic started popping up in other cities and in schools. Hundreds of kids making magic wands to share in their communities. We are estimating close to 1,000 wands have already been distributed.
For more information you can read http://kindnessgirl.com/the-magic-wand-project-for-kids/ and invite your friends to join us with this video - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS0KColbV5A .
I am hoping will share their experiences with finding them or their kind acts- even funny pics of kids doing their best magic wand pose at www.facebook.com/themagicwandprojectforkids
Check out some of our pics from Macaroni Kid at Colonial Trail making some wands!
and there is the general info and the story of how it all started at:
http://kindnessgirl.com/the-magic-wand-project-for-kids/
If you wanted to do more or have a wand making party with the kids, there is a PDF download of the tags that people can attach and leave their own wands in the community.
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