Helper Hank

Help Choice is seeing a chance to help and deciding to take it. The kindness is the choice. The skill is following through.

Help can look like many simple things:

• Hands: hold a door, carry a bag, pick up a spill, stack a chair.
• Directions: help a new student find a classroom or sit with them at lunch.
• Skills: explain a math step, share supplies, show how a game works.
• Tech: help a sibling or grandparent with a video call, homework tab, or big button on the screen.
• Time: sit with someone left out. Call a family member. Stay with a friend who came alone.
• You: drink water, take a short rest, say one kind sentence to yourself, ask someone for help when you need it.

Hank’s line: “I’ve got a hand for that.” Then you help.

If you are not sure they want help, a simple ask is enough: “Want a hand?” Help Choice is still the decision to show up.

1. Notice. Hands full. “I don’t get it.” Someone sitting alone. You feel worn out too.
2. Choose. “I’ll help.” Or “I’ll help myself with one small kind thing.”
3. Act. One clear help — carry, explain, point the way, sit with them, rest, ask.
4. Feel it and repeat. School. Home. Friends. Community. You.

Learn it: I choose to help — me or you — in a way that fits.

How to use it:

1. Notice a chance to help.
2. Choose to be kind.
3. Pick a way that fits: hands, directions, skills, tech, time, or self-kindness.
4. Do it.
5. Thumbs-up. The K-Spark™ starts when the choice becomes an act.

Impact on you: You feel useful, stronger, and proud. Helping yourself counts. Helping others gives the helper’s high.

Impact on others: A job gets lighter. A lonely moment gets company. Someone finds the room, the button, or a friend.

Collect it: Complete the 3 lessons. Print the certificate.

In school: full arms at the door · dropped crayons · “I don’t get it” · a new student looking for a room · share supplies · explain one step · include someone left out · help tidy the board.

At home: grocery bags · a chore · snack for someone busy · hold the door for Grandpa · help with technology · read a page to a sibling · video-call a family member · give yourself ten minutes of rest.

With friends: pickup after the game · explain the rules · sit with the person on the edge · share time with someone who looks left out.

In the community: hold the door · pick up dropped items · check on a neighbor with a small task · pick up litter for 10 minutes · smile and say hello.

More everyday acts live in the Kindness Act Hub — Self, Home, School, and Community.

Play in a circle. One person names a moment: arms full, lost in a hallway, stuck on a screen, sitting alone, tired after a hard day.

The next person says Hank’s line — “I’ve got a hand for that” — then names one way to help and acts it in ten seconds.

Ways to name: hands · directions · skills · tech · time · help myself.

Keep moments kind and small. No secrets. No teasing. No lifting people.

Safety note

Help Choice is a kindness skill. It is not a job to lift people or do unsafe work. Do not take someone’s cane, wheelchair, or body.

If you are not sure they want help, ask. If someone is hurt, scared, or the moment is too big, get a trusted adult. Choosing to get an adult is still Help Choice.

If someone is in crisis or immediate danger in Canada, call 911, USA 988. In other countries, use your local emergency number.

Lesson 1 · See a chance to help · 15–20 minutes

Help starts when you notice. The chance can be someone else — or you.

School: Pair up. A names a real small moment from today. B points to the chance to help and says Hank’s line. Switch. Include one “help myself” example.

Home: For ten minutes, notice chances to help at home. Choose one and do it.

Collect it: The chance I noticed was ____. I chose to help by ____.

Lesson 2 · Choose a way to help · 15–20 minutes

One moment can use different kinds of help. The skill is picking a way that fits.

School: Practice six ways on small made-up moments: hands · directions · skills · tech · time · help myself.

Home: Do one help for someone and one help for yourself (water, rest, kind words to you, or asking for help).

Collect it: The way I chose was ____. It helped because ____.

Lesson 3 · Help with others · 15–20 minutes

Part of Help Choice is engaging people around you — at school, home, with friends, in your community. Time with someone lonely counts.

School / friends: Invite one person: “Want to help with me?” Include someone left out.

Home / community: One real help that uses time or people — sit with someone, call a relative, pick up litter, help a neighbor with an adult nearby.

Collect it: I helped ____. I invited ____. What changed was ____. If I needed an adult, I would tell ____.