Random Acts of Kindness

50+ FREE ideas for your to spread kindness today… and everyday!

  1. Compliment a stranger

  2. Pay for the person behind you in the drive-thru

  3. Take on a small task to help out a coworker or friend

  4. Hold the door open for someone

  5. Pay someone’s parking meter

  6. Leave a kind note on someone’s car

  7. Send or pick flowers for your Mom

  8. Write a loved one a letter

  9. Do the dishes for your household

  10. Help someone put their groceries into their trunk

  11. Volunteer

  12. Donate clothes to Goodwill or the Salvation Army

  13. Ask how someone is doing—really doing—and actively listen

  14. Visit the animals at your local animal shelter

  15. Let someone cut in front of you while waiting in line

  16. Pick up litter in your neighborhood

  17. Clean up a local park

  18. Shovel snow off a neighbor’s driveway

  19. Check in on a senior citizen in the neighborhood

  20. Babysit or pet sit free of charge

  21. Smile at the stranger walking past you

  22. Visit a nursing home nearby and spend time with the residents

  23. Leave a kind note and generous tip for your server

  24. Say good morning to everyone you see in the early hours of the day

  25. Send a Good Night text

  26. Talk to someone you usually wouldn’t

  27. Leave a positive review for a local business

  28. Plant a tree

  29. Acknowledge a coworker’s hard work

  30. Tutor a friend who needs help in school

  31. Take out the trash for your neighbors on trash day

  32. Bring someone a small gift to school or work

  33. Bake treats to come home to after school

  34. Compliment someone’s post on social media

  35. Reach out to a friend or family member you haven’t spoken to in a while

  36. Attend a local sporting event and cheer on the teams

  37. Send someone you love a care package just because

  38. Make a new friend at school or work

  39. Tell a parent you know what a great job they’re doing

  40. Write kind sticky notes and leave them on your coworker’s desks

  41. Leave a gift in your mailbox for the mailman

  42. Offer to walk a neighbor’s dog

  43. Clean your sibling’s room

  44. Donate blankets to a homeless shelter

  45. Offer to water your neighbor’s garden for a week

  46. Mow your neighbor’s lawn

  47. Take a picture for someone

  48. Spend quality time with your grandparents or parents

  49. Bring a loved one breakfast in bed

  50. Lend a friend your favorite book

  51. Donate books to your local library

  52. Tell a funny joke at work or school to make everyone laugh

  53. Scrape the ice off the windshield of someone’s car

Feel free to pick and choose from these ideas—or try them all—to spread kindness wherever you go!