77 Creative Ways Kids Can Serve is a book full of wonderful ideas on how to help your children reach out to others. Each of the 77 ideas comes with a short introduction, a list of supplies you will need, and a list of steps you need to take to fulfill your service project. Many of the service ideas also have a fun fact or funny story included with them.

There are some very original ideas in this book, such as starting a "Do Something" club in which you organize volunteers to help out with a voted-upon project. There are also many ideas that we have all heard of, such as being part of Angel Tree at Christmas or recycling in your own home. A homeschool family could use this book to come up with ideas for serving in their community.

I enjoyed reading through this book, and it really made me realize the importance of mobilizing my family into service. It made me realize how necessary it is to teach our children about serving those who are less fortunate than we are.

While I was able to glean a few good ideas for my family from this book, I was a little disappointed by the scarcity of original ideas. I felt that in a book like this there should have been more ideas that I had never heard of. I would not recommend this book to homeschoolers simply because you could easily come up with most of these ideas on your own.

Product review by Charlsie Swadley, The Old Schoolhouse® Magazine, LLC, August 2008