Shining Your Porchlight: The Porchlight Badge Book
Available soon in our Porch Store!
Shining Your Porchlight: The Porchlight Badge Book is a hands-on adventure for children, families, and classrooms.
Each Klub teaches a different skill — from gardening to science, from storytelling to caring for animals — while helping children grow in truth, goodness, and beauty.
Every Klub includes:
- Personal Growth Tasks
- “Shining Your Porchlight” giving tasks
- a collectible badge
Children learn, create, explore, and share kindness as they complete each Klub.
It’s a joyful way for families and teachers to build connection, confidence, and creativity.
Children earn badges through:
- Klub activities
- character lessons
- giving tasks
- reflection prompts
- hands-on learning
Badges include:
- Cricket Club
- Gardening
- Culinary Arts
- Science
- Drama & Dance
- Animal Care
- Literary & Writing
A Mimi’s Welcome to the Porchlight Badge Book
Welcome, dear friend, to Mimi’s Country Porch — a place where hearts slow down, lanterns glow warm, and children discover the goodness, beauty, and truth already shining inside them.
This Badge Book is your child’s (or student’s) invitation into a world of adventure, creativity, and emotional growth.
It’s not a workbook.
It’s not homework.
It’s not a checklist.
It’s a journey.
A journey into:
- truth-telling
- emotional courage
- beauty-making
- goodness-giving
- connection
- creativity
- responsibility
- and the joy of becoming who they already are
Each Klub in this book opens a new doorway — a new way for children to explore their feelings, express themselves, create beauty, nurture life, and shine their porchlight into the world.
On Mimi’s porch, we believe:
- every child is born with essential goodness
- every heart carries a light
- every feeling has a truth
- every moment is a chance to flip back from upside-down emotions
- every act of beauty or kindness strengthens the whole family
- and every badge earned is a celebration of growth
As you walk through these pages together — as a family, a classroom, or a community — you’ll find simple tasks, gentle emotional tools, and meaningful giving projects that help children grow from the inside out.
You’ll also find something else:
connection.
Connection between you and your child.
Connection between children and their feelings.
Connection between families and the Porchlight community.
Connection between truth, goodness, and beauty.
So, take a deep breath.
Settle into the porch swing.
Let the lantern glow.
And step into this adventure with an open heart.
We’re so glad you’re here.
Let’s shine our porchlights together.
— Mimi & Friends at the Porchlight
Share Your Porchlight Moment
Send your badge, your story, your smile — and join the Porchlight community.
Every time your child or student completes a Klub, decorates a badge, or shines their porchlight in a new way, we would love to celebrate with you.
You can share:
- a photo of your child holding their decorated badge
- a short video explaining what they learned
- a picture of their project or Beauty Spot
- a note describing their “Shining Your Porchlight” giving task
- a classroom project or group activity
- a family moment of truth, goodness, or beauty
Your Porchlight Moment may be featured on:
- On the Porch with Mimi & Friends Podcast
- The Porchlight Board
- The Website Gallery
- Special Porchlight Celebrations
Sharing your story helps build a national community of families and teachers who believe in truth, goodness, beauty, and emotional growth.
Send Your Porchlight Moments To:
A Note from Mimi
“Every time a child shines their porchlight, the whole world gets a little brighter.
Thank you for sharing your light with us.”