50 Fun Random Acts of Kindness Week Ideas:

50 Fun Random Acts of Kindness Week Ideas:

Everyday Acts of Kindness

1. Put your phone away while in the company of others.
2. Everyone is important. Learn the names of your office security guard, the person at the front desk, and other people you see every day. Greet them by name. Also say “hello” to strangers and smile. These acts of kindness are so easy and they almost always make people smile!
3. Set an alarm on your phone to go off at three different times during the day. In those moments, do something kind for someone else.
4. Find opportunities to give compliments. It costs nothing, takes no time, and could make someone’s entire day. Don’t just think it. Say it.

Say, Share, Something Nice

To Strangers:

1. Say hi to the person next to you on the elevator.
2. Leave a note on someone’s car telling them how awesome they parked.
3. Hold up positive signs for traffic or in a park for people exercising outside!
4. Encounter someone in customer service who is especially kind? Take an extra five minutes to tell their manager.
5. Place a positive body image note in jean pockets at a department store.
6. Compliment the first three people you talk to today.
7. While you’re out, compliment a parent on how well-behaved their child is.

Supporting Colleagues, Coworkers, Businesses, and What Other's do Professionally?

1. Send a gratitude email to a coworker who deserves more recognition.
2. Have a LinkedIn account? Write a recommendation for coworker or connection.
3. Write a positive comment on your favorite blog, website, or a friend’s social media account.
4. Email or write to a former teacher who made a difference in your life.
5. Send a ‘Thank You’ card or note to the officers at your local police or fire station.
6. Write a Google Review for a business/service.

To Your Friends and Family

1. Write a kind message on your mirror with a dry-erase marker for yourself, your significant other, or a family member.
2. Send a positive text message to five different people right now.
3. Post inspirational sticky notes around your neighborhood, office, school, etc.
4. Write your partner a list of things you love about them.
5. Put 50 paper hearts in a box. On each cutout write something that is special about your partner or a friend. Give them the box and tell them to pull out a heart anytime they need a pick-me-up.

Kindness to Yourself

1. Write a gratitude list in the morning and again in the evening.
2. Practice self-kindness and spend 30 minutes doing something you love today.
3. When you hear that discouraging voice in your head, tell yourself something positive. You deserve kindness too!

Give Anonymously

1. Pay it Backward: buy coffee for the person behind you in line.
2. Leave quarters at the laundromat.
3. Leave a gas gift card at a gas pump. (I think a note needs to be added so people don't just throw it in the trash, even better give it to the cashier to give out when they see someone who may benefit from it.
4. Pay for outstanding lunch bills at a public school.
5. Tell someone they dropped a dollar (even though they didn’t). Then give them a dollar.
6. Leave unused coupons next to corresponding products in the grocery store. (not sure if this works anymore, but maybe I'm wrong.

Give in Appreciation

1. Leave a kind server the biggest tip you can afford.
2. Leave a box of goodies in your mailbox for your mail carrier.
3. Purchase extra dog or cat food and take it to an animal shelter.
4. Take muffins or cookies to your local librarians.
5. Take flowers or treats to the nurses’ station at your nearest hospital.?

Gift of Time

1. Let someone who only has a few items go in front of you in line.
2. Do you know parents who could use a night out? Offer to babysit for free.
3. Return shopping carts for people at the grocery store.
4. Run an errand for a family member who is busy.

Neighborly

1. Surprise a neighbor with freshly baked cookies or treats!
2. Pay the toll for the person behind you.
3. Smile at five strangers.
4. Try to make sure every person in a group conversation feels included.
5. Keep an extra umbrella at work so you can lend it out when it rains.
6. When you’re throwing something away on the street, pick up any litter around you and put that in the trash too.

Give Fun

1. Tape coins around a playground for kids to find. (This one seems like it could lead to issues.)

Treat a Friend

1. Buy a plant. Put it in a terracotta pot. Write positive words that describe a friend on the pot. Give it to that friend!
2. Invite a friend out for coffee.
3. Throw a party to celebrate someone just for being who they are, which is awesome.
4. Pick up a friend for church.

Find a better home for items around your house

1. Donate old towels or blankets to an animal shelter.
2. Give away stuff for free on Craig’s List, or Buy Nothing Site like Alpine Harbinson Canyon
3. Donate clothes to shelters in your city.

Rally the Troops

1. Have a clean-up party at a beach or park.
2. Organize a for a community need like a food drive.