Kindness to Animals/Environment

• Adopt an animal online.

• Feed the birds.

• Start composting.

• Gather old (clean) towels and bring them to your local animal shelter.

• Get friends together and pick up trash at your local playground or park.

• Plant something.

• Shower love on a shelter animal.

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Kindness to Others

• Attend a cultural event in your community.

• ​Buy a coffee or tea for the person behind you in line at the coffee shop.

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

• Give a generous tip to an employee who treated you well.

• Give a genuine compliment to someone.

• Go through your home and find a few things you aren’t using anymore. Post them on a community page offering them for free.

• Help someone unload groceries at the store.

• Hold off on that negative review.

• Hold the door open for someone.

• Leave a nice note and some cash taped to a vending machine to give someone a fun surprise.

• Leave happy notes around town.

• Leave heads up pennies on the sidewalk.

• Leave kindness rocks at the park.

• Let someone else ahead in line.

• Make a busy bag for a family with young children.

• Make a kindness tear off sheet and put up in town, your neighborhood, your school, or even your home.

• Post a positive review.

• Post an encouraging quote on social media.

• Put a small bin in your car to collect recycling.

• Read a book to someone.

• Return someone’s cart at the store.

• Say hello to everyone you see.

• Sing songs at a nursing home.

• Smile at everybody. It’s contagious.

• Write a letter to a local newspaper editor about the benefits of being kind.

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Kindness to Local Businesses or Services

• Collect books for the library.

• Contact one of your government representatives about an issue that’s important to you.

• Eat at a locally-owned restaurant.

• Find a bus stop near your home and remove any weeds or trash nearby.

• Go to a local business​ and tell them what you appreciate about them.

• Go to a local grocery story and say hi to everyone you see.

• Leave a kind letter in a library book.

• Leave kindness bookmarks in books at community or school library.

• Make a purchase at a locally-owned business.

• Make a thank you card for your librarian.

• Make something tasty to deliver to the fire or police department.

• Send a note of gratitude to our town police or fire department.

• Send a thank you card to an essential worker.

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Kindness to Those in Need

• Create activity bags for families of deployed soldiers.

• Donate a backpack/suitcase to foster children.

• Donate a toy to Toys for Tots.

• Donate backpack for foster kids.

• Donate books.

• Donate clothes, socks, or toiletries to a homeless shelter.

• Donate to a cause you care about.

• Donate to a food pantry.

• Fill a jar with loose change for a month and then donate to your favorite charity.

• Find an organization in your neighborhood that is in need of volunteers. Commit your time to help out.

• Participate in a virtual fundraiser.

• Send a card to a service member.

• Set up a lemonade stand and donate the profits.

• Volunteer at a soup kitchen.

• Volunteer to help others.