Acts of Kindness

Surprise a neighbor with freshly baked cookies or treats!

Leave quarters at the laundromat or by Aldi carts.

Place positive notes in jean pockets at a department store.

Pick up trash in your neighborhood or park.

Leave a note or snack for your trash collector.

Write your sibling or friend a list of things you love about them.

Find opportunities to give compliments.

Take flowers or treats to the nurses’ station at your nearest hospital.

Send a ‘Thank you’ card or note to the officers at your local police or fire station.

Take muffins or cookies to your local librarians.

Tape coins around a playground for kids to find.

Paint rocks with kind words and leave them around your neighborhood.

Hold the door open for someone.

Do a chore for someone without them knowing.

Leave a letter in a library book.

Call your grandparents and ask them about their childhood.

Write a thank you note for your mail carrier.

Set up a lemonade stand for donation and use the profit for your fundraiser.

Tell someone why they are special to you.

Donate outgrown clothes.

Talk to someone new at school.

Write chalk messages on the sidewalk.

Weed or shovel for a neighbor.

Donate food to Feed the Creek or a Feed the Creek box.

Bring flowers to your teacher.

Put some books in a little free library.

Donate socks and supplies to the homeless shelter.

Take treats to the fire station.

Read a book to your sibling

Invite someone to play on the playground.

Help make dinner.

Write a thank you card for your bus drivers.

Clean up your room without being asked.

Buy extra school supplies for a teacher.

Make a homemade gift for someone.

Clean up your toys without being asked.

Make a thank you card for your librarian.

Dry the slides at the park with a towel after it rains.

Go through your toys and donate the ones you don’t play with.

Leave a basket of balls at the dog park.

Slip a sweet note into your brother or sister’s lunchbox.

Write a thank you note to someone who did something nice for you.

Bring up a neighbor’s trash can.

Let someone go in front of you in line. 

Draw a picture for someone, especially if you notice they have had a bad day.

Make Blessing Bags for the homeless.

Leave change by a vending machine.

Draw pictures and deliver them to a nursing home. 

Make dinner for a family going through a hard time. 

Compliment strangers in the store.

Make thank you cards for Wounded Warriors/VA Hospital

Make cards for deployed military members. 

Make cards for children in the hospital. 

Make thank you cards for the custodians and clean up your classroom.

Make thank you cards for the lunch staff and make sure your lunch table is EXTRA clean!

Make bookmarks for the school or local library.

Make Kindness Rocks to put around school.

Make placemats/love notes for Meals on Wheels.

Brighten your school hallway with kindness posters.

Thank your administrators and specials teachers (music, art, P.E., etc.) by making a class card or poster.

Clean up around the school.

Chalk the sidewalks with kind messages.

Make items for the Humane Society (rice sock warmers, chew toys, etc.).

Make cards and paper flowers to deliver to neighbors or other classrooms.

Make cards/pictures for a nursing home.