50 Acts of Kindness for My 50th Birthday

Inspired by a post from kindnessprojectoc, I cobbled together my own kindness checklist to celebrate my 50th birthday coming up in a few days:

1. Participate in the Neighborhood Spring Clean
2. Buy a gift card for the next person in line at the checkout
3. Make a homemade treat for someone
4. Post a 5-star review for a small local business you’ve visited
5. Make a basket with treats/snacks for the office staff and teachers at school
6. Write a positive review for a book you like
7. Leave a flowering plant and mysterious card on someone’s doorstep you don’t know
8. Pickup trash in your neighborhood
9. Buy a flower for the cashier at the grocery store
10. Leave “You Rock” rocks on doorsteps
11. Send ‘good’ chocolate to a teacher
12. Donate fun books to a care center
13. Make five kindness tear off posters and post on community boards
14. Leave a single flower on a stranger’s car in the parking lot
15. Organize a ‘get to know grandma’ night for her grandkids
16. Donate to the food pantry
17. Pickup trash on a trail
18. Make giveaway bags for the homeless and store in car to give out
19. Tape microwave popcorn packets on Red Box
20. Give a neighbor a garden plant you started
21. Hide a gift card in a book at the library
22. Spread a roll of lucky pennies through the parking lot
23. Host a campfire sing-along food drive
24. Leave a snack pack for the mail carrier
25. Fill a bird feeder
26. Leave bubbles at the park on the benches marked ‘for you’
27. Pickup trash at the park
28. Give a free performance for the elderly
29. Donate craft packs for the elderly at a care center
30. Make a kindness bingo sheet game to share on ElfAlliance.com
31. Arrange a hymn tune and post as a freebie on UkulelePlay.com
32. Post a free hymn arrangement on Choirworks.com
33. Help my son with his plant stand
34. Help my son with his story stand
35. Take a care basket to the fire station
36. Take a care basket to the police station
37. Donate to the thrift store
38. Plant flowers in the garden for Mom
39. Let someone go in front of you in line
40. Offer a free ‘camp song leaders’ music workshop
41. Leave your server a big tip
42. Surprise someone with homemade bread
43. Read a book on kindness and share notes
44. Read a book on community building and share notes
45. Celebrate someone awesome on social media
46. Offer to record something for someone
47. Feed the ducks at the pond
48. Leave funny cards with handwritten jokes at a care center
49. Donate flowers at the hospital
50. Organize a neighborhood movie & snacks party

I’m going to start working on these this weekend! It was a lot of fun to put together the list and I think it is going to be a lot more fun to carry it out. 🙂