Random Acts of Kindness

• Collect goods for a food bank.
• Buy a stranger a pizza.
• Treat someone to fresh fruit.
• Hand out balloons to passersby.
• Mow a neighbor's yard
• Wipe rainwater off shopping carts or hold umbrellas for shoppers on their way to their cars.
• Let your staff leave work an hour early.
• Leave an extra big tip for the waitperson.
• Drop off a plant, cookies or donuts to the police or fire department.
• Pay for the meal of the person behind you in the drive-through.
• Give toys to the children at a shelter or safe house.
• Let the person behind you in the grocery store go ahead of you in line.
• Buy cold drinks for the people next to you at a ball game.
• Give a bag of groceries to a homeless person.
• Slip a $20 bill to a person who you know is having financial difficulty.
• Gather friends together and prepare sandwiches, chips, cookies and drinks. Fill lunch bags and distribute them to the homeless.
• Go to a children's zoo or a park where feeding animals is allowed. Offer a bag of food to another family to feed the animals.
• Leave a bouquet of flowers on a neighbor's front step anonymously.
• Roll an elderly neighbor's garbage cans back up the driveway at the end of trash pick-up day.
• Collect teddy bears for police officers to give to traumatized children.
• Leave enough money in the vending machine for the next person to get a free treat.
• Pay the toll for the person behind you.
• Carry inexpensive, pocket-sized rain ponchos in your car and hand them out to pedestrians who are getting drenched in a downpour.
• Call an animal shelter and find out what donations they need.
• Create or donate a floral arrangement to a senior center, nursing home, police station, hospital, shut-ins, etc.
• Assemble and deliver a basket of vegetables or fruit and a few flowers for a homebound person.

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