ROCK HILL, S.C. — If you ask most kids how they spent their winter break, they might tell you they went to the mall or played video games or went skating with some friends.
If you ask 10-year-old Kolton Dunn, he'll tell you he spent his winter break cleaning up his school campus.
Kolton, a 5th grader at Mount Gallant Elementary School, said he just wanted to make sure his teachers and classmates had a pretty campus to come back to after winter break.
"Now there's not going to be as much trash," Kolton said. "And it makes everything more beautiful because there's not just trash flying around everywhere."
Kolton's good deed at the school is all part of the random acts of kindness project he and his family came up with.
Kolton's mom, Danielle Dunn, said instead of a traditional advent calendar, they have a random acts of kindness calendar.
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"We do it every year," Danielle Dunn said. "We don't do a traditional advent calendar. We do a family advent calendar that has acts of kindness tasks throughout the month."
The Dunn family said the acts of kindness can be as small as paying for someone's meal who is sitting alone at a table.
"Maybe they'll pass it on and it's kind of a trickle effect," Danielle Dunn said. "So that's just kind of teaching them kindness."
When asked, Kolton said he hopes other kids follow his lead and do something similar for their schools.
"It can help the world be a cleaner place and better place," Kolton said.
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