
103 Random Act Of Kindness Ideas
Random Acts Of Kindness (RAOK) are genuine moments where we are selflessly giving to another human being. This is a list of 103 ideas for you to be that restoration in someone’s faith in humanity.
103 Random Acts Of Kindness Ideas
- Genuinely compliment strangers
- Buy the person’s food behind you in the drive-thru
- Add googly eyes to a friend’s mailbox
- Volunteer
- Make art and abandon it for someone to find
- Print out happy photos and pin them on community bulletin boards
- Figure out how to reduce your carbon footprint
- Pay off someone’s layaway
- Remind an adult how to be a kid
- Send a letter or note in the mail
- Pass out flowers
- Donate to a charity
- Give a meal, money, or supplies to a homeless person
- Post funny videos on your friend’s Facebook
- Leave notes on windsheilds
- Put change in parking meters that are out of time
- Only say positive and constructive things online
- Bring your friend an energy drink at work
- Be careful not to splash pedestrians with puddles while driving on rainy days
- Let your loved ones know they are beautiful
- Teach someone something
- Pick up things you accidentally knock over in stores
- Recycle
- Gift a scratch off lottery ticket
- Leave quarters in toy vending machines
- Let someone in line in front of you
- Hold the door open for someone
- Come up with a list of TV shows, movies, books, bands, or comics that a friend might enjoy
- Pull of elaborate and nice pranks
- Write nice messages with sidewalk chalk
- Tape money to a soda machine for the next person to use
- Grant a wish within your power
- Help a neighbor with yardwork or cooking
- Leave papers with quotes or sayings in books at stores
- Go to events that are important to friends, even if they aren’t your cup of tea
- Help someone practice for an interview
- Watch someone’s house, kids, or pets for free
- Bring in some snacks for coworkers
- Be kind and make eye contact with cashiers, toll booth operators, etc.
- Leave notes on mirrors
- Pick up litter
- Write a note of recommendation
- Draw and write fun things on mirrors with dry erase markers
- Bring drinks and treats to your local post office or fire station
- Plant trees and flowers (especially in places that could use some life and color)
- Don’t judge or discriminate
- Help someone pick up things they’ve dropped
- ‘Adopt’ an animal
- Make mix CDs for friends or leave them for strangers
- Fill flashdrives with beautiful pictures and fun music and leave it somewhere
- Send flowers to someone at their job
- Donate clothes to a thrift store
- Buy someone a drink from across the bar
- Make a bird feeder for your yard
- Adopt your pet from a shelter
- Leave a nice note in the copier or fax machine at work
- Hold a fundraiser for someone else or a charity
- Pay attention to people in person instead of playing on your phone
- Always get a doggy bag at a restaurant for leftovers to give to a homeless person
- Wrap up books + write clues as to what the book is about before you leave them somewhere
- Leave excellent tips
- Give someone a second chance
- Call a family member who always wants to hear from you
- Set up single friends
- Put the cart back when you’re done shopping
- Write something sweet on your friend’s back windshield with a window marker
- Put out a bowl of candy on your desk for coworkers
- Offer to be the designated driver
- Bake a cake for no reason and write something silly in icing
- Do something really weird, to give a stranger a story to tell
- Offer to go get the car while your friends wait when it’s raining
- Promote your friends’ work
- Give thoughtful gifts for non birthday/Christmas reasons
- If you have extra time on your parking slip, pass it to the person pulling in after you
- Leave face-up pennies on the ground to grant others good luck
- Apologize in person
- Include friends you might not usually
- Decorate your house for others to enjoy
- Offer to take someone’s shift who needs the day off
- Do a guerrilla art installation for others to smile at or interact with
- Show someone around town who just moved there
- Return favors
- Write a long list of reasons you love your significant other or friend
- Keep supplies on you for others to use (pens, gum, tampons)
- Intervene if someone needs help
- Be positive, offer encouragement and support
- Take care of something for your friend who really didn’t want to do it themselves
- Give good hugs
- Donate blood
- Give helpful advice to someone new at work
- Leave little reminders around town
- Lend someone money
- Pack someone a lunch
- Offer a foot, hand, shoulder massage
- Instead of making a gift wish list, ask people to donate to a charity or do a RAOK + tell you about it
- Slip a dollar in the DVD case at the Redbox for the next person
- Every time you say something negative, put a dollar in a jar and use the money to buy someone else something nice
- Give helpful advice to someone new at work
- Hold up a sign saying ‘Have a great day!’ on the side of the road
- Pass out candy to people waiting at the DMV
- Buy your pet a special treat
- Make Easter baskets for kids in the hospital
- Mail a care package
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I love these ideas so much! Spreading kindness is a big way we can be the hands and feet of god in this world. Thank you for sharing this list!