The possibilities are endless, as Random Acts of Kindness Day is not about spending huge amounts of money, but about surprising people with a little act of kindness.

Here are some ideas to get your grey matter churning…

• Pay for an extra coffee and ask the barista to give to the next person who comes in
• Put a nice note inside a library book when you return it
• Pick flowers from your garden and take to your teacher
• Paint rocks and leave them around your neighbourhood
• Offer to walk your neighbour’s dog
• Deliver spring bulbs to your neighbours’ letterboxes to plant in all the berms

• Pay a stranger a compliment – you just don’t know what they’re going through
• Leave an encouraging note in your neighbour’s letterbox
• Send a nice text to someone
• Put a flower on a car windscreen with one of our free printable “You’ve Been RAK’d” cards (downloadable)
• Get a pizza delivered to the local hospital staff, fire station, police station, or school staff room for lunch
• Make breakfast in bed for your mate

• Take a cake to work
• Give an employee an extra hour for lunch
• Let a car into the traffic ahead of you (go on!)
• Wash your mum’s car
• Mow the neighbour’s berm
• Bring your neighbour’s bins in on rubbish day
• Cook dinner for a family in your street
• Take a box of chocolates to neighbours you haven’t met yet and introduce yourself
• Give your parking display ticket to the person pulling in behind you
• Pay the bus fare for the passenger behind you

• Visit your local retirement village and spend time talking with a resident
• Take your school class to a retirement village and sing to them
• Babysit for your friends so they can have a night out
• Send a bag of groceries to a young family
• Donate clothes to charity
• Write something kind on people’s social media pages
• Be generous with your Likes on Facebook
• Pick up litter around your neighbourhood