Category: Giving Back

World Kindness Day is a global day that promotes the importance of being kind to each other, to yourself, and to the world. The purpose of World Kindness Day is to help everyone understand that compassion for others is what binds us all together.

Today we encourage you to allow your child to participate in the random acts of kindness campaign by doing something nice for someone.

Here are 50 random acts of kindness activities to get your family started.

1. Send a card to an old friend.
2. Hold the door open for someone.
3. Share a toy or item they wouldn’t normally share with a sibling or friend.
4. Donate to a cause anonymously.
5. Return someone’s cart at the store.
6. Send your teacher card or small gift to show you care.
7. Leave a letter in a library book.
8. Feed the birds.
9. Leave happy notes around town.
10. Volunteer your time.
11. Call your grandparents and ask them about their childhood.
12. Create activity bags for families of deployed soldiers.
13. Let someone go ahead of you in line.
14. Compliment a friend.
15. Wash someone’s car.
16. Write a thank you note for your mail carrier.
17. Plant something.
18. Bake dessert for a neighbor
19. Walk dogs at the animal shelter.
20. Check in on an elderly neighbor.
21. Set up a cookies & cocoa station at your local community center and donate the profits.
22. Send a card to a service member.
23. Bury treasure at the playground.
24. Set the table for dinner.
25. Leave a small gift on someone’s doorstep.
26. Smile at everybody. It’s contagious.
27. Tell someone why they are special to you.
28. Donate outgrown clothes.
29. Buy a coffee for a stranger.
30. Pass out stickers to kids waiting in line.
31. Talk to someone new at school.
32. Write chalk messages on the sidewalk.
33. Shovel snow for a neighbor.
34. Donate food to the food pantry.
35. Bring flowers to your teacher.
36. Tell a manager how good your service was.
37. Compliment a stranger.
38. Donate socks and supplies to the homeless shelter.
39. Forgive and apologize to anyone you might have hurt.
40. Call a friend you haven’t seen in a while to say hello.
41. Tape money for the ice cream truck to a friend’s front door.
42. Take treats to the fire station.
43. Read a book to someone.
44. Leave heads up pennies on the sidewalk.
45. Donate books to a doctor’s office waiting room.
46. Tell someone how much you love them.
47. Say hello to everyone you see.
48. Make someone else’s bed.
49. Hold the door open for someone.
50. Wave at policemen and firefighters.

Remember, there’s no right way to celebrate World Kindness Day. You can have your kids focus on one idea today, or many over time. We know kindness can be life-changing for your children and the people they interact with, and we believe that by participating in acts of kindness as a family or group can encourage long term kindness habits for your child, and the world.