Kindness to Family/Friends

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• Ask a family member or friend about an important moment in their life and listen to their story.

• Ask for donations instead of birthday gifts.

• Call your grandparents and ask them about their childhood.

• Clean up your room without being asked.

• Deliver homemade food to a friend

• Do a chore for someone without them knowing.

• Draw a picture for a family member or friend.

• Fill a kindness jar with candy for another family.

• Give a surprise gift (it doesn't have to be big - a flower from TJs, a bookmark, a smile).

• Invite a friend or family member out for coffee, tea, hot chocolate, ice cream.

• Mail a handwritten card to a friend or family member.

• Make a homemade gift for someone.

• Make someone a care package to brighten their day. Remember, it doesn't have to be big, it doesn't have to be expensive, it just has to be from the heart.

• Make someone else’s bed.

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

• Help prepare a meal for your family or roommates and sit down to enjoy it together.

• Print or make kindness cards to give to friends and family.

• Send a postcard to family or friend.

• Set the table for dinner.

• Surprise a friend or family member with an unexpected or phone call.

• Tape a video message for family or friends who live far away.

• Tell a family member how much you appreciate them.

• Tell someone how much you love them.

• Tell someone why they are special to you.

• Upload kindness. Take a picture or make a video with your friends or family about kindness and we will create a slide show to share with others.

• Write a list of things you love about someone.

• Write a note for someone’s lunch.

• Write a poem for family or friend.

 

Kindness in your Neighborhood

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• Bring your neighbors’ garbage cans up for them.

• Check in on an elderly neighbor.

• Create a neighborhood giving plate

• Give a cake mix cookie jar to a neighbor to brighten their day.

• Help a Neighbor

• Introduce yourself to a neighbor you don’t know.

• Leave bubbles on someone’s doorstep.

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

• Make a mini-poster with an uplifting message and post it somewhere in your neighborhood

• Make a thank you sign for sanitation workers.

• Make a welcome card for a new neighbor.

• Make something tasty to deliver to a neighbor you haven’t met.

• Make something tasty to deliver to a neighbor you haven’t met.

• Offer to help a neighbor mow their lawn, rake leaves, or shovel snow.

• Organize a community clean up with neighbors and friends.

• Print kindness cards and put them in your neighbors mailboxes. You don't have to share your name if you don't want. It is the thought that matters.

• Respect local wildlife.

• Say “Thank you” to someone who is working in your neighborhood (mail carrier, waitress, police officer, etc.).

• Take a walk in your neighborhood and pick up any litter you find.

• Upload kindness. Take a picture or make a video with your neighbors about kindness and we will create a slide show to share with others.

• Wash someone’s car.

• Write a positive note and leave it for someone in your neighborhood to find.

• Write a thank you note for your mail carrier.

• Write chalk messages on the sidewalk.