At-home volunteering activities for kids
Spread the word and show your support for Habitat for Humanity’s mission to make housing affordable by embarking on some of these family-friendly activities.
Paper houses
Start a discussion with your kids about home and what home means to them. While you do, have your kids create their own paper houses.
Print your paper house
Print our template for your kids to color and decorate their very own house. Then have your children write what home means to them on their paper house.
But don’t stop there — after completing your house, share it! Take a picture, post it to social media, and tag an elected official and @habitatvoices on X to let everyone know how important housing is to you.
Many Americans are struggling to pay for housing, and the need for safe, healthy, affordable housing has only become even more urgent over the past few years. Sharing you and your children’s voices is so important!
Community walking bingo
Habitat and our volunteers and homeowners work hard to strengthen communities worldwide. We want to help you identify strengths in your own community!
Print your bingo card
This family-friendly game of bingo allows you to get outside, get some exercise and see your community though a new lens.
Once you have a row complete, post a picture on social media and share your thoughts about the importance of housing and of keeping communities strong.
When Habitat evaluates potential partner communities, we research the neighborhood’s sense of community, willingness to work together and its ability to sustain ongoing projects and advocacy efforts. Within each partner neighborhood Habitat evaluates seven categories: amenities, economic opportunities, education, health, housing, safety and transportation.
We bet you can find some of these important components of a strong community in your neighborhood!
Take your card to the next level by supporting Habitat’s advocacy work. We know that having an affordable home also means having a strong community and access to resources wherever you live, work and grow. One of the key aspects of our advocacy efforts is to push for policies that protect and strengthen neighborhoods and enable communities to thrive. Join us today!
Build-a-stat stencils
Take your sidewalk decorating to the next level. Habitat for Humanity’s build-a-stat stencils are a great way to raise awareness about housing inequality and the difference that a stable, healthy home can have in our lives.
Print your stencils
Just print the build-a-stat stencils and cut out the black area to create your stencils. Use your creativity to share your housing knowledge.
The figures in our stencils are meant to help you share stats about housing.
You can use just a few to show a percentage such as:
1 in 6 households shouldn’t spend half their pay on a place to live.
1 in 3 households shouldn’t be cost burdened by their place to live.
Through our advocacy efforts, Habitat is working to increase safe, healthy affordable housing for all Americans. Help us raise awareness and let your community and elected officials know how important affordable housing is.
Example tweet: 1 in 6 households shouldn’t spend half their pay on a place to live. @yourrep, I’m standing with @habitatvoices to help make housing affordable. [Attach your picture.]
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