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

1. Genuinely compliment strangers
2. Buy the person’s food behind you in the drive-thru
3. Add googly eyes to a friend’s mailbox
4. Volunteer
5. Make art and abandon it for someone to find
6. Print out happy photos and pin them on community bulletin boards
7. Figure out how to reduce your carbon footprint
8. Pay off someone’s layaway
9. Remind an adult how to be a kid
10. Send a letter or note in the mail
11. Pass out flowers
12. Donate to a charity
13. Give a meal, money, or supplies to a homeless person
14. Post funny videos on your friend’s Facebook
15. Leave notes on windsheilds
16. Put change in parking meters that are out of time
17. Only say positive and constructive things online
18. Bring your friend an energy drink at work
19. Be careful not to splash pedestrians with puddles while driving on rainy days
20. Let your loved ones know they are beautiful
21. Teach someone something
22. Pick up things you accidentally knock over in stores
23. Recycle
24. Gift a scratch off lottery ticket
25. Leave quarters in toy vending machines
26. Let someone in line in front of you
27. Hold the door open for someone
28. Come up with a list of TV shows, movies, books, bands, or comics that a friend might enjoy
29. Pull of elaborate and nice pranks
30. Write nice messages with sidewalk chalk
31. Tape money to a soda machine for the next person to use
32. Grant a wish within your power
33. Help a neighbor with yardwork or cooking
34. Leave papers with quotes or sayings in books at stores
35. Go to events that are important to friends, even if they aren’t your cup of tea
36. Help someone practice for an interview
37. Watch someone’s house, kids, or pets for free
38. Bring in some snacks for coworkers
39. Be kind and make eye contact with cashiers, toll booth operators, etc.
40. Leave notes on mirrors
41. Pick up litter
42. Write a note of recommendation
43. Draw and write fun things on mirrors with dry erase markers
44. Bring drinks and treats to your local post office or fire station
45. Plant trees and flowers (especially in places that could use some life and color)
46. Don’t judge or discriminate
47. Help someone pick up things they’ve dropped
48. ‘Adopt’ an animal
49. Make mix CDs for friends or leave them for strangers
50. Fill flashdrives with beautiful pictures and fun music and leave it somewhere
51. Send flowers to someone at their job
52. Donate clothes to a thrift store
53. Buy someone a drink from across the bar
54. Make a bird feeder for your yard
55. Adopt your pet from a shelter
56. Leave a nice note in the copier or fax machine at work
57. Hold a fundraiser for someone else or a charity
58. Pay attention to people in person instead of playing on your phone
59. Always get a doggy bag at a restaurant for leftovers to give to a homeless person
60. Wrap up books + write clues as to what the book is about before you leave them somewhere
61. Leave excellent tips
62. Give someone a second chance
63. Call a family member who always wants to hear from you
64. Set up single friends
65. Put the cart back when you’re done shopping
66. Write something sweet on your friend’s back windshield with a window marker
67. Put out a bowl of candy on your desk for coworkers
68. Offer to be the designated driver
69. Bake a cake for no reason and write something silly in icing
70. Do something really weird, to give a stranger a story to tell
71. Offer to go get the car while your friends wait when it’s raining
72. Promote your friends’ work
73. Give thoughtful gifts for non birthday/Christmas reasons
74. If you have extra time on your parking slip, pass it to the person pulling in after you
75. Leave face-up pennies on the ground to grant others good luck
76. Apologize in person
77. Include friends you might not usually
78. Decorate your house for others to enjoy
79. Offer to take someone’s shift who needs the day off
80. Do a guerrilla art installation for others to smile at or interact with
81. Show someone around town who just moved there
82. Return favors
83. Write a long list of reasons you love your significant other or friend
84. Keep supplies on you for others to use (pens, gum, tampons)
85. Intervene if someone needs help
86. Be positive, offer encouragement and support
87. Take care of something for your friend who really didn’t want to do it themselves
88. Give good hugs
89. Donate blood
90. Give helpful advice to someone new at work
91. Leave little reminders around town
92. Lend someone money
93. Pack someone a lunch
94. Offer a foot, hand, shoulder massage
95. Instead of making a gift wish list, ask people to donate to a charity or do a RAOK + tell you about it
96. Slip a dollar in the DVD case at the Redbox for the next person
97. Every time you say something negative, put a dollar in a jar and use the money to buy someone else something nice
98. Give helpful advice to someone new at work
99. Hold up a sign saying ‘Have a great day!’ on the side of the road
100. Pass out candy to people waiting at the DMV
101. Buy your pet a special treat
102. Make Easter baskets for kids in the hospital
103. Mail a care package