Please feel free to leave any of your own great ideas or finds in the comments section, though, so that we can keep this growing:
- Bring in a neighbor's garbage bins
- Write a letter to a far-away family member
- Open door for those behind you all day long
- Leave 3 kind notes for your sibling in places they'll find them
- Take extra dog food or treats to a local animal shelter
- Box up 5 toys in good condition for donation
- Write a letter to a soldier
- Choose a gift off the school/grocery/church giving tree and use your own saved money to purchase it
- Write a letter to a friend you don't play with everyday and mail it
- Bake cookies and a homemade card to take to a senior center
- Walk around your neighborhood/school/park and pick up trash/recycling
- At the school or town library, turn as many books as you can to spine side out on the shelves
- Give a hug to someone who looks sad or upset today
- Make your teacher a thank you card just for being great
- Sit with someone new at lunch today
- Make popcorn balls for your class/troop/club/church group
- Donate 3 of your favorite books to the library
- Write 5 holiday cards to deliver to a local nursing home or hospital
- Send thank you cards to the police and fire stations
- Give flowers to someone you don't know very well today
- Sort and deliver bags of gently used clothes and shoes for donation today
- Cash in all your pennies and donate them today (collection jars in stores/charities/animal shelters, etc)
- Give the best-decorated house in your neighborhood a thank you card and treat
- Smile and say hello to every single person you pass by today
- Leave out birdseed and peanut butter sticks/balls for the birds and squirrels
*we intentionally did not include daily household chores (like picking up after pets and making beds) because those should still be done regardless, and because these good deeds are to help the kids look outside of their own little world
