For Parents/Guardians
- Meditation Mondays
Start the school and work week with a family 10-minute mindfulness moment! - Shelter Snacks
Make treats for a local animal shelter. - Slime Party
As a family, make slime and donate it to a local preschool. - Coloring for Calmness
Print off free coloring pages, then spend time together creating art and sharing what happened during the day. - Little Library
Spread the joy of reading by donating to a little library! - Grow Kindness
Show kindness to the environment by planting a garden.
- Rock On
Find rocks at a local stream or pond, then write encouraging messages on them. Place them around town to spread joy! - Community Car Wash
Get some hoses and buckets together and wash some cars for free. - Clean Up
Get some trash bags and clean up a local beach or park. - Give Thanks
Write thank-you cards to neighbors, retail clerks, sanitation workers–people who don’t normally get thanks! - First Response: Thanks!
Create a thank-you basket for a local group of first-responders. - Deliverer Deliveries
Put treats out for the people who deliver your mail and packages.
For Students
- Stadium Clean Up
Get a group of friends together and help the custodians clean up after a big game. - Rake In the Fun
Help a neighbor clean up in the fall. - Do Something®
Campaign for a cause you believe in. - Mix It Up
Everyone sits with new people at lunch to make new friends. - Make It Snow Away
Shovel driveways in winter. - Holiday Cheer
Get a group of friends together and go entertain a local senior center.
- Cards for Kids
Create greeting cards for kids in hospitals to help them feel care. - Sidewalk Says
Write encouragement on the sidewalk. - Mirror Motivation
Leave positive messages around bathroom mirrors at school. - Paper Flowers
Create origami flowers for senior centers in town. - Custodial Care
Leave a candy-gram for the custodians at your school. - Five Compliments
Challenge yourself and friends to compliment five strangers in a day.
For Teachers/Administrators
- Free Rice
When there’s spare time in class or meetings, encourage those in attendance to play trivia to feed people in need. - School Buddies
Create a mentoring program between older and younger students. - Driven to Care
Organize a drive (clothes, hygiene, canned food, toys) for those in need in your community. - Recycle Party
Start a recycling program at your school to be kind to the environment. - Take As You Need
Put hygienic products in the bathrooms and school supplies in a common space for people to take as they need. - Feed Flying Friends
Create bird feeders to be kind to our ecosystem.
- Welcome to the Fam
Create small welcome baskets with school supplies for all new staff members. - Soldier Support
Create letters for soldiers or care baskets for their families. - Pause-itivity
Write notes of encouragement and hang them on a wall in a common place where students can take the encouragement they need in a day. - Kindness Club
Build a Kindness Club for the school, promoting volunteerism and spreading positivity. - Door-to-Door
Work as a class to decorate the door to spread an uplifting message. - Paper Chains
Every time someone does something extra kind, write it on a slip of paper and create a documentation chain.
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