OTHER ACTS OF LOVE & KINDNESS IDEAS

Here are some ideas to get you, your family, or a group of your friends started on a quest to spread love and kindness...
  • Leave an envelope with change or a dollar bill attached to a vending machine.
  • Give a Starbucks (or other retailer) gift card to a stranger
  • Give a handmade gift to a friend, neighbor or stranger with an encouraging note
  • Have a bake sale or lemonade stand and donate the money to one of your favorite charities
  • Have a garage sale and donate the proceeds to your favorite charity
  • Write a letter to someone you haven’t talked to in a while
  • Compliment someone
  • Bake cookies and give them to your neighbors
  • Visit a nursing home
  • Leave a treat in the mailbox for your mailman
  • Take pet food to a local shelter
  • Donate toys to a shelter
  • Drop off homemade treats to a Fire Station
  • Leave a thank you gift or bring out a cup of coffee to the garbage man
  • Pack care packages for deployed soldiers
  • Take canned goods to a food bank
  • Do something nice for one of your siblings
  • Take crayons and coloring books to a children’s hospital
  • Hide a dollar in the toy section at the dollar store
  • Let someone ahead of you in line
  • Give a $10 Publix gift card to the person in line behind you
  • Pay for the meal of the car behind you in a drive through line
  • Give a little unexpected gift to one of your kids’ teachers
  • Bring baked goods to the office at school
  • Send a handmade thank you card to someone who has inspired or helped you
  • Surprise someone you love by putting lots of hearts on their door with a reason you love them in each heart
  • Bring a big brother or big sister kit to a family who just had a baby (sometimes the siblings feel left out)
  • Offer to teach a creative skill free of charge to a local group
  • Give a spa kit to someone to a new mother or a friend going through a rough time
  • Make homemade play dough for a preschool teacher
  • Frame an inspirational quote for a friend who needs cheering up
  • Give your daughter some homemade lip gloss (or help make it with her) for no reason
  • Surprise a veteran with a patriotic card or thank you card
  • Bring someone who is sick a “get well kit” with soup, crackers, Gatorade, a magazine, etc.
  • Leave inspirational notes in random places
  • Surprise a little boy with a Lego set
  • Pass out compliment cards
  • Bring cookies to a local assisted living or nursing home for the staff
  • Help your kids hand make cards for family and friends and hand deliver them
  • Buy a $5 gift card at a store and hand it to someone coming in on your way out
  • Leave a bottle of laundry soap or put quarters in machines at the Laundromat
  • Leave a Ziploc bag with a travel pack of wipes and a few diapers on a public changing station.
  • Drop off some treats/snacks at the nurses station at a hospital
  • Make a Homeless Blessing Bag (toothpaste, deodorant, soap, socks, granola bars, crackers, other snacks, etc) to hand out if you see homeless people while shopping
  • Tape a bag of popcorn to a RedBox machine
  • Leave notes on a public bathroom mirror telling people to have a great day
  • Leave notes on a public changing table that says, “You’re a great mom”
  • Put a dollar bill in a library book when returning it
  • Make some hair bows with your daughter and let her hand them out to little girls she sees while you are shopping
  • Leave a generous tip and candy bar after eating out
  • Drop off a plate of cookies to the help desk at your local library
  • Smile at a frazzled looking mom and tell her she’s doing a great job
  • Buy a fun-sized candy bars and have the kids hand them out while shopping
  • Send and I love you or encouraging text to someone
  • Return someone’s cart at the grocery store
  • Visit with a neighbor
  • Call and check on someone you know lives alone
  • Tell someone they are doing a great job
  • Call a homeless shelter.  Ask what they need and bring it.
  • Drop a few coins at a playground for a child to find
  • Mail a surprise to a far away friend
  • Buy a treat for the cashier when you check out
  • Give a reusable water bottle full of water to a homeless person
  • Write your 50 favorite things about a friend who has just gone through a breakup
  • If you are saying nice things about a person who is not present or just thinking nice things about a person, text them to let them know.
  • Buy a meal for a homeless person
  • Be generous with compliments throughout the day
  • Bring donuts (or healthy treats) to work
  • Bring in your neighbors trash cans
  • Donate blood
  • Donate greeting cards to a nursing home
  • Donate prepaid phone cards to a Women’s shelter
  • Donate books to a school library
  • Donate used clothing
  • Drop off bus tickets to a shelter
  • Help someone with yard work
  • Write a letter to someone who has made a difference in your life
  • Visit someone who is sick
  • Take someone to lunch or the movies
  • Start a piggy bank for a cause
  • Offer a few hours of free babysitting
  • Mentor someone
  • Bring in needed teacher supplies
  • Take flowers to a local nursing home to pass out to residents
  • Pass out bag lunches to homeless people
  • Leave a note of encouragement on a stranger’s car
  • Send someone flowers for no reason at all, just because you appreciate them
  • Give an umbrella to someone who needs it on a rainy day
  • Pick up litter in the neighborhood or park
  • Offer to take an elderly neighbor to the store or shop for them
  • Give a concert or athletic ticket to someone who doesn’t get to go out much
  • Whatever you skill is  (painting, sewing, cooking) find ways to use it to benefit others in need
  • Introduce yourself to neighbors you don’t know yet
  • Compliment a stranger
  • Let the person who seems rushed cut in front of you
  • Hold the door open for someone
  • Say “thank you” a lot
  • Stand up for the underdog
  • Come to the rescue of someone in need
  • Do the task no one else wants to
  • Fill up the gas tank and/or wash the car for your spouse and then leave candy or a sweet note on the dashboard for them to find in the morning before work.
  • Pick up the tab for a stranger
  • Forgive someone
  • Make amends for wrongs you have done
  • Make CDs for your friends with some of your favorite songs on them
  • Send a surprise book to someone from an online retailer
  • Selflessly help (and promote) others
  • Get up early and write “good morning” and “have a nice day” with chalk on neighborhood sidewalks
  • Deliver a warm blanket to a homeless person
  • Visit an inner city playground an bring a cooler of drinks, sandwiches, treats to hand out
  • Stand outside your child’s class and give a flower to each kid as they enter to give to the teacher (have a vase handy to put them all in)
  • Drop off cards, candy, treats to the leaders and employees at local missions/non-profits
  • Host a baking party for moms and kids to make goody bags to deliver
  • Make homemade yard signs or flags and put encouraging notes in friends’ or neighbors’ yards (best yard, sweet family, etc)
  • Buy ten $5 Bibles at the bookstore and pray to find ten families that need one
  • Find out when your child’s friend has a game or performance coming up.  Surprise them by attending and bringing a poster or other fun way to cheer them on.
  • Set up a free hot chocolate or lemonade stand and take donations for your favorite charity
  • Have the kids write ten reasons why they love each grandparent and deliver it to them
  • Sneak attack daddy’s office and/or car, armed with special notes and a sweet treat to leave.
  • Walk a neighbor’s dog for them
  • Tell one tired mom that she is enough just as she is.  That she’s great at what she does.
  • Drive through a bank teller just to give them a treat through the vacuum system.
  • Make a note of thanks and treat to hand out to preschool teachers on their way into their classroom to encourage them
  • Hide encouraging notes around a playground with $1 bills in them for children to find.
  • Pack a cooler of lunches and go around town looking for people to hand them out to.
  • Tape quarters to bubble gum machines
  • Fill your car with balloons and tell your kids to hand them out one at a time to strangers to make them smile
  • Sneak in a friend’s house and clean or organize a room for them
  • Swing by your dentist or doctor’s office with treats for the team
  • Bring a hot coffee and magazine to someone waiting for the bus
  • Keep a basket of notes and goodies in your car to hand out as you see opportunities
  • Find a widow and tell her she is loved.  Send her a note of encouragement and find a way to help her.
  • Wait for a public transportation bus and see if the driver will let you deliver a treat for every passenger for the day.
  • Find a family who has a loved one serving overseas and thank them in an extraordinary way
  • Give out coupons for free services you can perform for those you love.
  • Leave coupons on top of the products at the store