Kindness in Schools

Ask students to perform a Random Act of Kindness for a stranger and then write an essay describing the experience . how it made them feel and the reaction of the person who received their kindness. (Submit the stories at helpothers.org to be published on the web).
Send home a note telling parents something their child did well.
Create a special publication of RAK featuring local kindness stories. These can be broadcast over the school intercom.
Help serve dinner at local soup kitchen.
Have your class make and distribute kindness bookmarks.
Ask student to pick someone who has done something nice for them and write a thank you note.
Have a food or clothing drive for a shelter.
Hold a teddy bear drive and donate the bears to police or fire departments for traumatized children or a shelter.
Make and decorate Halloween/Christmas cookies and deliver them to a children.s home or family shelter.
With your class, organize an ice cream social, a tea, or a bingo event for residents at an assisted living center. Bake sweets or assemble root beer floats for the residents, and stay and visit.
Have each student write a positive comment about every student in their class on 3x5 cards or paper. Make a collage with the cards or let them keep it as a reminder.
Provide time for students to start a kindness journal in which they can keep their own kindness stories, pictures, ideas or feelings about Random Acts of Kindness.
Ask the students to pick two people who have done something nice for them. Have them write letters of appreciation, explaining how those people have made a difference in their life.
Meet with senior citizens and record their memories of the community when they were growing up. Compare their likes and dislikes with those of young people today. Compare prices from then to now. This is a good excuse to learn from the elders and also spend time with them.
Study kind people in history. Then have kids illustrate their kind works and discuss how their chosen path affected the world.
Adopt another student who needs a friend, checking in periodically to see how things are going.
Write notes of appreciation and take flowers or goodies for you teacher, custodian, principal, or secretary.)
Write a note to your mother/father and tell them why they are special.
Send a letter to some former teachers, letting them know the difference they made in your life.
Send a gift anonymously to a friend.
Surprise someone in your house with breakfast in bed.
Make a birdbath from a plastic dish and put it in your yard or on the windowsill. Keep it filled with water.
Talk to younger children about why catching wild creatures like frogs and turtles is not a good idea. Remind them that wild animals need to stay wild and free.
Place a flower in your neighbors. newspaper without them seeing it.