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
I try to come up with fun ideas to add each year. Ones that don’t cost anything – or much anyway! Have fun x
some FABULOUS ideas in there. Thanks. I will lift my game, but, not just for the day, as I think I’m fairly good at RAK’s… I’m a giver not a ‘taker’.