01/17/2017
30 Random Acts of Kindness to Do With Your Kids
1. Leave a thank you note and treats in the mailbox for the mail carrier.
2. Bring cookies to the local assisted living or nursing home for the staff.
3. Buy lunch or coffee for the person behind you in line.
4. Have the kids make cards for family and friends. Hand deliver them (the cards, not the kids) if possible.
5. Buy a $5 gift card at a store and hand it to someone coming in on your way out.
6. Leave a bottle of laundry soap or put quarters in the machines at the laundromat.
7. Tape a bag of quarters to a vending machine.
8. Leave a bottle of water and a snack or a magazine in the nursing rooms at the mall. The Babies R' Us in our area also has nursing rooms so we could do this there as well.
9. Leave a ziploc bag with a travel pack of wipes and a few diapers on a public changing table.
10. Give the kids each a few small toys and have them hand them out to other kids while shopping. I've bought a pack of sillybandz bracelets to do this with because both boys and girls love them.
11. Tuck a few dollars around the toy section at the dollar store or into various bins in the dollar section of Target.
12. Drop off a plate of cookies at the nurses' station at the hospital.
13. Make "Homeless Blessing Bags" up with the kids and hand them out to the homeless you see while out shopping.
14. Tape a bag of microwave popcorn to a Redbox machine.
15. Have the kids draw a picture for their bus driver and give it to him or her with a candy bar.
16. Leave sticky notes on a public bathroom mirror telling people to have a great day.
17. Leave sticky notes on public changing tables that read, "You're a great mom!"
18. Put a dollar bill in a library book when returning it.
19. If you're crafty, make a few hairbows and have your daughter hand them out to little girls when you're out shopping. There are lots of easy tutorials available for free online! Or, if you're not crafty, you could buy a pack of hairbows and hand those out instead.
20. On a hot day, hand out bottles of water to people out walking. Obviously, this is something we'd do during the summer :)
21. Tuck a few dollars or a Starbucks gift card into a book at the bookstore.
22. Write "You are beautiful" on a sticky note and leave it on a mirror in a public
bathroom.
23. Leave a generous tip and a candy bar for your server after eating out.
24. Drop off a plate of cookies at the public library, police station, fire station, etc.
25. Give your child's teacher (school or sunday school) a small gift as a thank you for all the work he or she does.
26. Offer to take a shopping cart to the cart corral for someone else at the store.
27. Leave a coloring book and a small box of crayons at the doctor's office.
28. Smile at a frazzled looking mom and tell her that she's doing a great job.
29. Buy a bag of fun-sized candy bars and have the kids hand them out at the mall.
30. If you have a small business like I do (Sunshine and Spoons Shop), hand out a few gift certificates to your shop while you're out shopping.
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