Kit Gives It Away: The Joy of Making Something for Someone Else
Book 16 of Kit's Little Sparks. By Chris Kuczynski.
Kit has made something wonderful. Kit could keep it. Kit could share it. But today, Kit wants to do something new. Kit wants to give it away. Sparks lights up. The friend's face lights up. The gift changes hands.
Generosity is the highest form of making. Adult philanthropists understand this. Children, given the chance, understand it instantly. Kit teaches your child that the thing they made can be a gift, and that giving something they made is a different kind of pride than keeping it.
Book 16 also touches on the harder parts of giving. Wanting to keep it. Feeling a little sad after handing it over. Hoping the recipient will love it. Sparks names each feeling without judgment. The book ends with the friend using Kit's gift, and Kit feeling something Kit has never felt before: warmth that does not come from owning, but from giving.
Illustrated in watercolor with the gift visible in transit across every spread. Sturdy board pages. Free read-along audio. Free educator guide with a "what could I give that I made" reflection activity.
For parents teaching generosity at home. For preschool teachers running a kindness curriculum. For families raising children who know that giving things they made is a kind of love.
Written by Chris Kuczynski, an engineer for the first twelve years of his career, then a registered patent attorney, and a co-founder of a preschool. He wrote the Kit's Little Sparks series to give two to four year-olds the language of invention long before kindergarten.
Give something you made to a friend or neighbor today. A drawing. A small built thing. A baked treat. Practice generosity with your creations. Book 17 is where Kit takes their work to the people they trust most.
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