#ACTS OF KINDNESS MOVIE#

Put candy canes into mailboxes around your neighbourhood.Share your vegetable gardening harvest extras.Leave chalk, bubbles, skipping ropes, balls at a playground.Write something positive or encouraging on the sidewalk in chalk.Bury some play coins/jewels in a playground sandbox.Wash someone’s car (or leave a gift certificate for them to go to a car wash.).Weed and water a neighbour’s lawn/flowers.Hide Easter Eggs for others to find (or plastic eggs with small toys).Start more tomato seeds than you will need for your garden, and give the seedlings away.Plant flowers somewhere needed (or unexpected!).Hand out carnations to women in your community on Mother’s Day weekend.Pump someone’s gas and wash their car windows.Park at the back of the parking lot instead of choosing the closest spot.Strike up a conversation with an elderly person.When your punch/stamp card for a store is ready to cash in, leave it for someone to find and use.Knit small baby blankets and hats to donate to the local children’s hospital.Send (or fill out) a letter of thanks or recommendation for an employee at a store when they’ve done a great job helping you.Help someone whose car has broken down: offer CAA help if you have and it’s needed.Clean the house for a pregnant woman, new mom, sick friend, friend with a family death, busy mom, …anyone.Call a family member you haven’t talked to in a while.Make activity packs of colouring sheets and crayons to leave at the hospital waiting room.Leave a bunch of flowers on someone’s doorstep.If the ticket you bought for parking in a parking lot has time on it, give it to a person just pulling in.Leave a box of diapers on the doorstep of a family with a baby.Say thank you to someone “just doing their job” (like the bus driver, garbage collector, or janitor).Tape a bus ticket to the bus stop sign.Help someone load their groceries into their vehicle.Cut your hair and send to a wig company for cancer wigs.Give up your seat for someone who needs it.Leave an extra tip for the serving staff at a restaurant (especially if you feel they don’t deserve it.(Leave a meal in the freezer for when they get home!) Clean house for a friend or family member when they are away.Hide encouraging/love notes for your family members in special hiding spots (lunch boxes, dresser drawers, etc).Leave your recently read magazines at your doctor’s office.Mail an unexpected card to someone special.Cook a meal for someone who needs it (just had a baby, sick family member, death on the family, etc).Leave a positive review on websites/social media for a company that deserves it.Be a coupon fairy, and stick coupons to products at the grocery store.Make care packages for the local teen home or homeless shelter (include personal hygiene items like toothpaste and deodorant, socks, stretchy gloves, gum, etc.).Leave a few loonies scattered through the toys at the dollar store.Leave a roll of quarters and a sample of laundry soap at the laundromat.Put some diapers and wipes on change tables in public places.Donate children’s books to a local daycare or school.

Tape formula coupons onto the baby formula display.Deliver a homemade goodies basket to your local fire department station.Buy a grocery store gift card with your points/rewards and hand it to the person behind you in line.Write a letter to a Canadian soldier on duty.Take books, colouring materials and clothing to the local woman’s shelter.Donate supplies, materials, gift cards, or time to the local humane society.Pay for the person behind you in drive-thru line.Grocery shop for a family in need and deliver them to their door.

#ACTS OF KINDNESS MOVIE#

Tape a package of microwave popcorn to a movie rental box.

Round up all the random shopping carts in a parking lot and put them back in the corral.

Bring in your neighbour’s garbage/blue bins from the curb.

Donate baby supplies, maternity or baby clothes to a local pregnancy help centre.

Pick up trash from the park/your neighbourhood.

Hand out water bottles (or homemade hot chocolate, if cold outside) to construction workers.

I just hope that they help inspire you and your family to kindness. Some are silent, some are in the spotlight. Some involve planning, some are spontaneous. I’ve been thinking of how I can help others join in the Acts of Kindness adventure, so I’ve put this list of 99 acts of kindness up for you. It’s been a fun activity for us, and also a neat way to turn the season around. Each day we aim to accomplish something, no matter how small, for others. Instead of just being focused on gifts, and what material things they want to have, we’ve started a tradition of doing acts of kindness throughout the month for others. The last few years, I’ve tried to promote a different way of thinking with my kids at Christmas.

Acts of kindness