As you know, if you’ve been reading, for quite some time, I’ve occasionally been running little installments called “Mama’s K.I.S.S.” I know that lots of readers could give many more and far more creative ideas than I can offer, but these installments are just a few tried and true and mostly old-fashioned ideas for putting service hearts in our kids. This is number 77 of a list of one hundred ways we train our kids to serve. K.I.S.S. is an acronym for “Kids In Service Suggestions”.
I’ve yet to see the police department, fire station crew (volunteer or paid), or rescue unit that does not love homemade cinnamon rolls delivered to the station or precinct headquarters. You can make these at home with your own kids and do all the delivery work yourselves, or you can do this as a group project with several kids and deliver as a youth group. It can be a project for your homeschoolers, as well. The important thing is to let the kids go in there with hearts and words of gratitude to those men and women who are working to keep our communities safe. It goes without saying that you will also want to include an invitation to visit the church with times and/or info about special events or seminars included. You may want to even let each child deliver a hand-written note of thanks, as well.
Alternately, prepare breakfast at the building with your kids and teens and invite all the public service workers to a come-and-go breakfast. I’ve seen this be wildly successful on a Saturday morning. Just be sure you “cover-up” the fire and police department with flyers ahead of time. Have the preacher or an elder call them, as well, to issue an invitation. This method is especially good in small towns where the department families know the church families. It fosters a great relationship between the church and the 
community.It’s great to put a sign out on the day of the event with this title “Thank-you for your service! Free breakfast today for our police, fire and rescue workers. Come on in!” Have kids at the door to welcome and have them during the milk and juice ar helping with the coffee counter.
Here’s a recipe from The Pioneer Woman that I have made (with a few tweaks) and loved:
https://www.thepioneerwoman.com/food-cooking/recipes/a11914/cinammon-rolls/