Tzedakah

[gmpe]

Do you have suggestions for teaching preschoolers about tzedakah (charity, righteous giving, etc.)? They seem very receptive to it and are in charge of bringing change for the tzedakah boxes in the classrooms at school on Friday. We try to talk with the kids about giving their outgrown clothes to other people who need them. Are there other things

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[pekmez]

This is less directly connected to tzedakah and more to a general theme of "helping others" - but maybe they could help you make food to bring to someone who is sick/who just had a new baby/etc in your community?

TBB partipates in JFCS's Family Table, a food pantry - I don't know if Temple Israel does - but a few times a year they ask each group that partipates to sign up volunteers to actually drop off the food. Which might be a good concrete activity.

I am focusing on food because while gljiva also takes great pleasure in putting money in places (like a tzedakah box or a collection basket), she doesn't *quite* have the money concept down yet. (I put *my* money in! is a frequent refrain. Nevermind that the money came out of her mom or Dad's wallet a moment ago.) Food is more concrete.

[abce]

We've inserted a caching step into the money path; each kid now has their own money box in their room; money goes from us to there, and from there, they take it for tzedakah.