


Pacific Northwest District Key Club UPDATED
Letter from Chair ~ (1-2)
Educational Material ~ (3-10)
Activities/Icebreakers ~ (11-19)
Service Opportunities ~ (20-24)
Fundraising Ideas ~ (25-29)
Hello, PNW Builders Club Members!
My name is Sawyer Sullivan, and I currently serve as the Chair of the Kiwanis-Family Relations Committee for the Pacific Northwest District of Key Club International. Key Club is similar to Builders Club in that we also volunteer and serve within our communities. The main difference between Key Club and Builders Club is that Key Club is at the high school level. As a committee we strive to improve the relations between the six branches of the KiwanisFamily, which includes Builders Club.
One of the most important parts of your development into a young leader is being able to plan and prepare for meetings. With this in mind, we have revamped a resource created by the 2019-2020 Kiwanis-Family Relations Committee called the Builders Club Curriculum. This curriculum contains preplanned meetings that Builders Club officers could use when planning out their meetings. Now that we have revamped the curriculum, it allows for more flexibility and creativity in the planning process.
The Builders Club Curriculum is made up of four main categories that are typically covered in a Builders Club meeting: an educational aspect, an icebreaker or activity, a volunteering opportunity, and a fundraising idea. To use the curriculum, we recommend that you take one item from each of the four categories and then put them into a meeting. Using the items in these lists provides structure to your meetings and makes the planning process a bit easier.
The first step to using the curriculum is to read through it! Look through the lists well before your meeting to decide which items you want to include. Depending on the item and which topic it falls under, you may have to prepare in advance. Next, you will want to create an online presentation and finalize which items you will be highlighting. Make sure to include at least one item from each category for the most fulfilling meeting! After finding the items you want to include, you will copy and paste any links, instructions, and questions into your presentation. Finally, make sure to include a date, designs, and any more important information that your members could use.
If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please feel free to reach out to me at kfam@pnwkeyclub.org.
In Care and Service, Sawyer Sullivan Kiwanis-Family Relations Committee Chair
According to the video, what is the essence of leadership? How do you demonstrate it?
What are the qualities that make a good leader?
How do you think that you could become a better leader?
What are some other ways to become a leader without a title?
Who did the students give back to? What did they do for the school?
Who is your unsung hero?
Who is the unsung hero for your school? For your community?
Do you ever see them getting the same energy and appreciation back?
What are some small ways that we can show appreciation to those who are loving and supportive towards us?
What specific examples of influence did you notice in the video? Does everyone think the same way as the construction worker? Why or why not?
What do you think of the line, “It might not be probable, but it is possible”?
Have you seen examples of a chain reaction of kindness that lead to a boomerang effect in your own life? Explain.
Did you notice that even though the younger lady who was helped by the older lady who crossed the street did not smile, she still kept the chain of kindness going, which shows that no act of kind is ever wasted?
How can we start a chain of kindness?
What stood out to you as important in this video?
What was your favorite compliment and why?
Why is it sometimes hard to give a compliment?
Why is it sometimes hard to receive a compliment?
When was the last time you gave a compliment?
What did you notice in this video?
How did the different doctors address the situation?
Why are names important?
How did calling the patient by her name change the situation?
How can we implement this in our school?
What specific examples of influences did you notice in the video?
How did the recipients react?
What did the students say about why they were doing such actions?
What was the difficulty level of the actions? Could we do it?
What did you notice in this video?
What was the connection between forgiveness and happiness?
Were you surprised by the statistics at the end of the video?
Are you holding a grudge against someone? How can you forgive them?
What did you take away from the video?
What was different about directly calling the person?
Why is it important to forgive yourself first and then the person?
Key Club Basics: Key Club International, founded in 1925, is an international service program for high school students. Often referred to simply as Key Club, it is a student-led organization whose goal is to encourage leadership through serving others. How does Key Club differ from Builders Club? : Key Club is mostly student-run compared to Builders Club where the advisors plan meetings and service events. This means that students run the ENTIRE club organization all the way up to the International level. There are many different ways to be a student leader in this organization.
How can you join? : When you begin high school, be on the lookout for when the first Key Club meeting is! You can become involved right away helping out at service projects and attending Key Club events.
Time Management
What is something that you took away from the video?
How do you schedule your tasks?
How do you balance productivity and responsiveness?
How do you minimize interruptions?
How can you apply this video to your life?
What Makes an Awesome Leader?
Break into small groups and discuss what we learned in the video. What do you think makes an awesome leader? What specific things did you agree with in this video?
If you were president, how would you lead?
How can you be a better leader in your daily life?
What are some things that stress you out?
How did you manage your stress in those situations? What are different ways you could have handled the situations? What are some ways for you to avoid being stressed?
Teamwork
A teamwork environment promotes an atmosphere that fosters friendship and loyalty. These close-knit relationships motivate employees in unison to align them to work harder, cooperate, and be supportive of one another. Individuals possess diverse talents, weaknesses, communication skills, strengths, and habits. Importance of teamwork:
Motivates unity in the workplace
Public Speaking
Offers differing perspectives and feedback. Provides improved efficiency and productivity. Provides great learning opportunities.
How to be a better public speaker Practice.
Engage with your audience. Pay attention to body language. Have confidence.
How did the woman make the man’s sign better?
Why do you think the man didn’t get much money with what he wrote before?
How does our wording when writing and speaking have an influence on relationships?
What are some ways we can be more conscious about word choice?
To provide opportunities for working together in service to school and community.
To develop leadership potential.
To foster the development of strong moral character.
To encourage loyalty to school, community, and nation.
Vision
To develop competent, capable, caring leaders through the vehicle of service.
Mission
Builders Club is an international student-led organization providing members with opportunities to perform service, build character and develop leadership.
Self-Confidence
How do you improve self-confidence? Make good choices for yourself; don’t rely on others to make choices for you. Do things that you enjoy and want to do. Take responsibility for yourself, your choices, and your actions.
Always do what you believe is the right thing to do. Be true to who you really are, and don’t be someone just to appease others. Set goals for yourself and strive to achieve them.
How do you think the girl felt when she found out that her dad was lying?
Was it in the father’s best interest to lie to his daughter?
Do you find yourself hiding parts of your life from others to protect them?
Do you think being vulnerable can be beneficial? In what circumstances?
How do you become responsible for yourself and your actions?
Don’t make excuses for yourself or your actions. Instead of complaining about a situation, try to work through it to your best ability.
Avoid procrastinating on your work and any other jobs in your life.
Be consistent and keep a proper schedule. Tell yourself what you’re going to do and make sure it gets done.
What did you take away from the video? What does it mean to have a work ethic? Making sure you manage your time wisely. Having a consistent and balanced performance for your work. Focusing on your work and avoiding distractions. Not thinking about finishing tasks, instead thinking about doing them correctly and going above and beyond.
Discipline yourself to make sure you do what you set out to do.
Why is it important to have a good work ethic?
T.E.A.M Work
What makes teamwork?
Working together to solve a common issue.
Making sure that everyone’s opinions are heard and valued. Building bonds with people for future issues to come.
Developing together through the challenges faced and supporting one another.
Using the different perspectives of other people to further your own knowledge and experience.
Communication
What is proper communication?
Proper communication is meant to feel genuine and valuable. When talking to someone, both people should feel like they are heard.
The ability to communicate with someone helps tremendously throughout all parts of your daily life.
Being able to communicate isn’t just being able to say what’s on your mind effectively, but it is also being able to hear what other people have to say and considering it.
What is Culture?
What are some cultures you belong to?
What are some unique practices or activities within that culture?
What are some elements of culture that make you proud?
What are some cultures that you do not belong to that you want to learn more about?
How can we respect the values and traditions of other cultures?
How can we be empathetic to others?
Why is it unhelpful and even harmful to find the ‘silver lining’?
How does being empathetic help someone?
Conflict Resolution
Why is it important to take a deep breath before handling conflict?
What can we do instead of just avoiding conflict?
How can we be fair during a conflict?
Is it important to consider the other side’s perspective in a conflict?
Participants must make a ‘boat’ out of the materials and items around them.
All participants must stand in the boat at the same time. All participants will try to stay in the boat while a piece is removed at a time.
What can we learn from this activity?
What was hard about staying in the boat as it got smaller? What did you do to make sure everyone stayed on the boat?
Sticky Note Activity
Take five Sticky Notes.
Write the Top Five Characteristics you would like to see in a Friend. Each Sticky Note should have one Characteristic.
Take five more Sticky Notes.
Write five Most Meaningful Compliments.
Go around sticking these Sticky Notes on other people’s backs who most fit what is written on the Sticky Note. If any falls on the ground, pick them up and go stick it on other people.
Take the Sticky Notes off your back and set them on your desk. Read over each one. How does it make you feel when you read a Characteristic that was given to you? How does it make you feel when you read a Compliment that was given to you?
What can we learn from this simple activity? Is it hard to spread kindness?
Top Medalist in Olympic History
The President of the United States
The Vice-President of the United States
Our Principal
Our Vice-Principal
Our Superintendent
One of the custodians
ACTIVITY DEBRIEF
Why might you know some of the names and not others?
What can you do to learn the names that you don’t already know?
Why is it important to know all of the names of this list?
Beach Ball Pass
Take an inflated beach ball and pass it around the room.
The goal is to pass the ball 100 times
Each member needs to hit the ball at least 5 times.
If the ball touches the ground, then the game restarts.
A member may not touch the ball twice in a row.
Count the number of hits out loud to keep track of the number.
If any of the rules aren’t met, the game restarts.
For larger clubs, you may need to split into multiple teams.
Share small things that you want to forgive or want to be forgiven for.
Explain why and how you want to ask for forgiveness or want to forgive.
Why would this be the right time to do so?
Start from one side of the room and go through every person. When it’s your turn, you will say your name, something you’re passionate about, and why.
Did you learn something new about someone?
Has listening to someone discuss their passion helped you remember their name?
Do you want to know more about someone and their passion?
Does anyone have a passion like yours?
Soulmate
Have someone come up to the front of the class. Make sure they are facing away from everyone as everyone else stands up.
One person will ask the person selected various questions such as “Cats or Dogs?”
Whenever the person answering gives their response, anyone else who doesn’t fit the description or share the same view as the person up front sits down.
The last person standing is the “Soulmate” of the person at the front.
ACTIVITY DEBRIEF
What was most interesting about the activity?
Which factor made the most people sit down?
Did you learn something new about someone that you didn’t know before this activity?
Select a few people to talk about an appropriate topic of their choice for one minute.
The speaker needs to talk for one whole minute without using any fillers like “Uh,” “Um,” “Like,” etc.
If the speaker uses any of these filler words, then they sit back down.
Allow for as many people to speak as possible.
ACTIVITY DEBRIEF
The purpose of this activity was to make you more aware of when you are using fillers when speaking to others.
Why was it difficult to not use filler words when speaking?
If you had to speak again, what would you do differently to not use filler words?
What do you think you could say instead of using filler words?
Two Truths and A Lie
Everyone gets a piece of paper and writes down two truths about themselves and makes up one lie.
Each person will then share their three statements with a group or another person.
People will come to a consensus on which one is the lie.
Everyone will share their three statements.
ACTIVITY DEBRIEF
Did you learn anything new about anybody?
If you guessed wrong, what made you think that their truth was a lie or vice versa?
What could be some clues to determine if something was a lie?
Split the group up into smaller teams depending on group size. The first person from each team comes up with a message. This message will be used by all teams.
Once started, the first person on each team will whisper the message to the next person in line.
The second person will whisper the message to the next, and so on.
The last person to receive the message will run to the provided white board or large piece of poster paper and write the message.
The team closest to the correct message wins! You can only say the message once; there is no repeating!
Birthday Boggle
Everyone remains silent during this activity.
The entire group will try to organize themselves by birthday without talking.
Once they are finished, everyone will raise their hands. Go through the lines and check if everyone got the dates correct.
Was it difficult not being able to speak to communicate? What were some methods of figuring out someone’s birthday and telling them yours?
How accurate was your line?
Are there any other tactics you could use next time to rearrange the line faster?
Get everyone standing in a circle, facing each other. Hold hands out in the middle of the circle.
Grab one other person’s hands.
Try to untangle the human knot without letting go of the other person.
Halfway through, stop talking and try to do it silently.
As a group, you will try to count in a random order to a set number. Usually you count to the number of people in your group. (Ex. 20)
Every person will say one number, starting at 1 and going through 20. The goal is to have every person say one number without having anyone say the same number or speak at the same time. You can’t communicate ahead of time to decide who will say what number.
As a group, stand or sit in a circle so that everyone is visible. At random, select one person to start and say their name. Then, move to the next person in the circle.
The next person has to say their name and then the first person’s name.
For the third person, they say their name, the second person’s name, and then the first person’s name.
This pattern continues around the entire circle until everyone can remember.
If someone makes a mistake, reset the pattern and start again. If you finish quickly, try changing up where people are standing and selecting a new starting person.
Cut out enough pieces of paper about the size of an index card so that each member of your group gets one paper. Write the names of well-known, school-appropriate figures and celebrities on each piece of paper.
Distribute one paper to each student and do not let them see the name on the paper.
Attach the paper to their forehead or back.
Each student will go around asking Yes/No questions to determine their celebrity.
The way a student can win is by asking “Am I [Celebrity Name]?”
Continue playing as long as necessary or until the majority of the students win.
Start by randomly dividing the group up into pairs. Have each pair create an original/new handshake. Then, mix up the students again and assign them to new pairs. Each student will teach their new partner their handshake that they created with their old partner.
Finally, if any pairs want to share their handshake with the group, they can perform in front of the group.
Before the meeting, print and cut out various quotes on paper. At the meeting, mix all of the quotes up and pass them out at random to small groups or pairs.
Each group/pair will read the quote and discuss what it means to them, if they agree, etc.
Finally, each group will share what their quote was and what they thought of it.
Before the meeting, prepare bingo sheets with different unique characteristics. Examples: Speaks three languages, has lived in a different country, etc.
At the meeting, pass the bingo sheets out to your members and have them fill out the sheet.
Have members go around the room and ask other members if they have one of the characteristics in the squares.
If someone has a certain characteristic, put their name down on that square.
You may only use one member per square (unless you have a small group)
Before the meeting, prepare a list of questions and prompts to ask your members.
You will ask the group a question/prompt, and they will go discuss it with someone they don’t know.
Example questions: Does pineapple belong on pizza? What is your dream vacation and why?
Before the meeting, make sure to have drawing utensils and enough paper for each member to have one piece.
Have the members divide their paper into four squares or a 2x2 grid.
You will ask the group four questions about themselves and in each square, they will draw and write about their answer.
Example questions: What is a hobby you have? What do you want to be when you grow up?
Once all questions have been asked and people are done with their papers, have them share their responses in small groups.
Before the meeting, get multiple different jigsaw puzzles of similar difficulty and piece counts. Divide up groups so that each group has one puzzle. Have all of the groups race to see who can complete their puzzles first.
For an extra twist, swap out one or two pieces from each puzzle and put them in a separate box. By switching up the pieces, teams will have to work together to complete their puzzles.
Shoveling Snow off your Neighbors’ Driveways
Plan it out.
Gather supplies to shovel snow (Shovel, Gloves, Warm Clothes, etc).
Go out on a weekend and ask neighbors if they want their driveway shovelled.
Shovel the snow off their driveway (quality over quantity).
Collaborate with other staff and students to create a parade to highlight certain staff members as they walk into school (Students cheering on custodial staff as the walk into the building).
Builder’s Club Week - Random Acts of Kindness
Write Compliments on Sticky Notes and put them around the school on lockers.
Set up a group of students to hold the door open before school in the morning.
Hand out cookies during passing time.
Clean up the cafeteria before the custodians.
Take out the recycling in classrooms.
Brainstorm others as a group :)
Plant Trees at Local Park
Beach/Park Community Cleanup
Contact the city or local organizations for garbage pick-up materials.
Garbage bags
Garbage pickers/tongs
Gloves
Pick a local park.
Within walking distance from the meeting area for easy access.
Clean the park while hanging out with your friends!
Provide incentive for the group who collects the most garbage.
Clean up classrooms and other parts of the school to show appreciation to staff and demonstrate school pride.
Organize groups to take out the trash and recycling in each room before the custodial staff. Have students walk around near the end of lunch to clean up any trash left.
Pick up any trash left in the halls, and throw it away in your next class.
Create a positive movement throughout the school. Keep your school and the Earth clean. Plant flowers around your school to beautify the campus.
Write and Send Letters to Veterans
Write a letter to thank a veteran for their service. Be specific and genuine.
Create an Inclusivity Display in your School Hallways
Promote positivity.
Be aware of other’s feelings.
Try to better understand other cultures.
Coordinate to help out at a local marathon.
Set up a water station.
Hand out water bottles.
Give out energy bars.
Support!
Hold up signs with encouraging messages on them.
School Supplies Drive
Set up a basket in the school or community for help to donate school supplies.
Advertise with posters hung around the community.
Collect the school supplies.
Pass out to students in need.
Hospital Toy Drive
Reach out to a local Children’s hospital to see what toys they are in need of.
Set up a basket in the school or community for help to donate toys.
Compliment Board
Get a giant piece of poster board.
Hand out sticky notes for people to write and draw on.
Put compliments or motivators on the sticky notes.
Place the board in an area able for all to see (Hallway, Lunchroom, etc).
Let people take whatever sticky note they may need to help them through the day.
Birthday Boxes for Kids in Shelters
Work on getting donation from local businesses to create kits.
Ask for donations from people at your school, church or local supermarket such as a Safeway or Costco.
Make sure you have an adult such as a parent, school affiliate, or Kiwanis member.
Spend some of the day asking people to donate dry goods and non-perishables.
Donate the food to your local food bank at the end of the day.
Hold a week of donation with a list of goods to make Care Kits for homeless shelters.
Ask for things such as shampoo, toothbrushes, combs, bottled water, snacks, etc.
Gather donations from fellow students and teachers from your school throughout the day and collect the items in the boxes at the end of the day.
At the end of the week, a group of students work together to assemble the bags and have them delivered to a local homeless shelter.
Contact a local animal shelter.
Ask them if they would like some help with the shelter. Make dog toys as a group to bring to the shelter. Things you can do include cleaning cages, playing with the animals, or helping make spooky Halloween decorations for the animal shelter to put up.
Conduct a drive to help collect different art supplies, board games, and other toys from your school, home, and community.
Donate these items to a local homeless shelter or orphanage for kids.
Making holiday cards for a Children’s Hospital.
Fold construction paper to make it into a card. Decorate the card however you wish with a holiday theme.
Write an endearing message in the card.
“Take One” endearing message
Make a “Take One” poster for people to take encouraging messages when they feel the need for one during school!
Reading Books at your Local Elementary Schools
Animal Shelter Toy & Treat Drive
Chalk the Walk
Use sidewalk chalk to write positive messages
Kindness Rocks
Paint inspirational messages on rocks and place them in parks, schoolyards, or community paths to brighten someone's day.
Approach a local ice cream or frozen yogurt shop or grocer, and ask if they would provide the ice cream and cones. Many shops will host a charity ice cream cone day where with each cone sold, a portion of the proceeds goes to charity.
After each participant pays to receive a numbered rubber duck, the race down the stream begins! Whoever’s duck makes it to the ending point first is the lucky duck prize winner.
Have a table set up for students or staff to purchase a guess to win the candy jar:
Set up a jar with a candy that is popular.
Advertise the jar on morning announcements and through friends.
Have members man the table with a teacher to watch the jar and take purchases.
Sell guesses for the candy jar for 25-50 cents (depending on the type of candy and quantity).
By next Monday, give the jar to the student or staff member who had the exact or closest guess to the actual amount.
Hold a Penny War contest among the classes of your school. Set up jars with lids for each grade level. Announce that the Penny War will be held during lunch for people to put cash in to win points. Pennies are worth 1 point while every dollar is worth 100 points. nickels are -5 points, dimes are -10 points, and quarters are -25 points.
Plan out a school social for after school in your gymnasium or lunch area.
Ask your school’s administrators for approval for the social. Have people buy tickets to go to the dance for $10 per ticket.
Schedule the social after school in the gymnasium where you can hang posters and play music. Have a table to sell snacks and drinks for a profit. Donate a portion of sales to a charity decided by your schools students.
Order Trick-or-Treat for UNICEF boxes. Hand out boxes to members in advance.
Partner with local Kiwanis Club or Key Club and form groups. Collect boxes and count up total. Submit donations.
Turkey Trot
Organize a family-friendly 5K Run around your area with teachers and fellow Kiwanis Members.
Have entry be by donation to run where the funds go to charity. Design special purchasable shirts for the 5K in celebration of the event.
Host an outfit competition for people and offer the winners of the contest and the 1st place runner of the 5K a treat, such as a pecan pie or cinnamon rolls!
Selling Candy Canes
Buy boxes of candy canes and buckets. Each member will be given a bucket with candy canes around the edge.
Throughout the school day, members will sell to classmates and staff.
Sell candy canes at $__ each.
Bingo Night
Hold a bingo night with a cost of entry
Use proceeds to donate to a local charity or fund future service projects
Bracelet Selling
Make Bracelets
Sell them for a reasonable price at community or school events
Chipotle Fundraiser
Local Chipotles allow for periods to have a code to donate funds towards your club
An event where you work with other clubs in your school to run a night market to sell things to raise money.
Pie a Club Officer (Or someone of note)
Have a raffle or donation list to pie a club officer or someone of note in the face (make sure they are willing, and make sure it is safe).
Valentines Day
Sell flowers & Roses.
Spooky Season
Sell Candy Baskets or Jack o Lanterns.
Holiday Season
Sell Hot Cocoa.
Water Bottles
Sell Water Bottles at other school events
Movie Night
Host a movie night at your school with potential admission costs.
Or, bonus, you can also sell popcorn or other snacks.
Trivia Night
Host a trivia night with an admission cost.
Easter Egg Hunt
Work to create an Easter egg hunt for your community.
Additionally, ask and attempt to work with local Key or Kiwanis Clubs to help make the event larger.
Host a Talent Show
Host a talent show where all admissions go to your club, as well as a winner's prize pool.
Sell Food (This one covers a lot)
Find a food, drink, or snack, you can readily get and sell it at a school event or at your school during a free period.
Sell Pins
Create pins for either members of the club or people from your school/community to purchase.
Dunk Tank
During a school event, host a dunk tank, in which you find a willing member of your community, and have people get the chance to dunk them for money.