Random Acts of Kindness

• Buy a meal for a young couple or family sitting next to you at a restaurant. Leave the Kindness card with the waitress to give them after you leave. It is a nice surprise they will never forget. It may even make them consider the mortality of their own children and lessen what time they may take for granted.
• Partake in a Christmas Angel Program. Leave the card so they know your motivation of love!
• Buy shoes or clothes for a family in need.
• Bake cookies for a neighbor or teacher, just because.
• Help an elderly person with yard work or grocery shopping. Many elderly people have a story or two to tell about their own baby that died many years ago.
• Visit a nursing home and bring cupcakes. Sit and visit with a few of the residents. You'd be amazed at the loving reception you will receive as many residents rarely receive visitors.
• Sign up to participate in a program such as Feed the Children. Your Kindness card will tell them the story of why you are doing this.
• Donate to your favorite nonprofit group on your child's birthday or death day. Ask family members and friends to do the same.
• Volunteer your time at a local homeless shelter or a crisis nursery.
• Buy a new calendar for a workmate.
• Donate some grief books to the library or a local support group.
• Leave an extra large tip for your food server!
• Buy the meal for the person behind you at the fast food drive through.
• Leave a bouquet of flowers on someone’s front door step.
• Bake goodies and take them to the police station, fire station, or hospital.
• Pay a local teen to mow an elderly neighbor’s yard.
• Crochet a baby’s blanket and take it to the hospital nursery. Premature babies can always use tiny booties and caps.
• Buy a balloon bouquet and ask the nurses the children’s hospital to deliver them to a child.
• Make a memorial donation to honor your loved one and a friend’s loved one.
• Take a box of doughnuts to an elementary school for a classroom.
• Plug someone’s parking meter.
• Go to the post office in mid December and ask for of the “letters to Santa” that they get every year. Buy and send the gift on Christmas.
• Adopt a street or just pick up litter in the neighborhood.
• Leave your change in the soda machine for the next person. It's a nice surprise.
• Buy coffee for the person standing behind you in line.
• Write to management at places where you get especially good service and commend them (specify names!)
• Tape a quarter to a pay phone with a note welcoming anyone who needs it to use it.
• Adopt a family through a social service agency, not just at Christmas. People go hungry all year.
• Plant a tree or some flowers for a local church. Perhaps offer to “build” a Memorial Garden.
• Volunteer at a local shelter, crisis nursery or soup kitchen. This will give more to you than you can imagine.
• Volunteer to read to children at your nearest library.
• Send your child a note in his lunchbox. Remind them how special they are to you.
• Organize a large toy, clothing and diaper drive for a crisis nursery.
• Pay for a small child's candy at a convenient store.
• Pay for someone's toll and/or gas.
• Look for opportunities to open the door for someone or give up your seat for someone.
• Buy lunch for the couple or family sitting next to you as you pay your own. Be sure to be secretive!
• Buy a toy for a child in the store and ask the clerk to deliver it after you’ve gone.

Source: http://schools.hpedsb.on.ca/smood/kindness/ideas.htm