Step 1: Choose Your Project
Find Your Passion
Use the below list to help you figure out your passion.
What tugs at your heartstrings? That means what makes you feel something. Maybe you feel sorry for someone who is hungry. Maybe you feel sad that a dog was abandoned on the street. Maybe you know someone that has cancer and you feel frustrated that they are so sick.
Helping the environment
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Clean up a neighborhood playground -
Clean up a park, lake, or beach -
Plant a garden -
Harvest fruits and vegetables -
Plant trees -
Clean up around your school -
Lead a recycling project -
Pledge to pick up 10 pieces of litter a day -
Make plarn (plastic yarn) that can be woven into a plastic mat for the homeless -
Add your own idea.
Helping the elderly (older people)
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Shovel snow or rake leaves for your elderly neighbor -
Find a local nursing home and ask how you can help -
Bring your favorite game to a nursing home and play it with the residents -
Donate adult coloring books to a nursing home -
Make care bags for the elderly -
Make a craft to hang on the door of a resident at an assisted living property. -
Make kindness placemats for the elderly -
Design a memory book for a dementia patient -
Write cards for seniors at a nursing home -
Sing songs at a nursing home -
Sign up to deliver meals through the Meals on Wheels program -
Make some bookmarks, crafts, or a nice card to add to the Meals on Wheels meal delivery program -
Add your own idea.
Helping the homeless
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Volunteer at a soup kitchen -
Host a shoe drive or a shoe cutting party for Sole Hope -
Collect jeans for local youth in need -
Host a diaper drive -
Assist with sorting and organizing donations at a homeless shelter -
Host a drive for warm winter clothing for the homeless -
Make a no sew fleece blanket for the homeless -
Donate your toys -
Pack snack bags to store in your car to hand out to the homeless -
Go to a park and hang mittens on a tree -
Add your own idea.
Helping the sick/disabled
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Host a lemonade or hot chocolate stand and use the proceeds to buy hot wheels cars for sick children
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Design an activity book for a child in the hospital
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Participate in a 5k or 1 mile fun run for a good cause
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Add your own idea.
Helping the hungry
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Find a meal packing program and volunteer to pack meals with them
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Add your own idea.
Helping animals
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Volunteer at an animal shelter -
Make homemade dog treats and deliver to an animal shelter -
Set up a donation drive to help animals in need -
Make signs to advocate for animal adoption -
Make dog or cat toys -
Leave a bowl of water on a trail for a dog -
Read to animals at your local animal shelter -
Make a birdfeeder -
Add your own idea.
Supporting servicemen and servicewomen
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Write thank you cards for first responders -
Bake cookies and deliver them to the police station -
Send a colorful card to troops overseas -
Make a no sew fleece blanket for a child whose parents are overseas -
Run a Halloween candy drive for troops -
Add your own idea.
Spreading kindness at school
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Leave kind messages on lockers -
Make a friendship bracelet for a friend -
Eat lunch with someone new -
Start a kindness club at school -
Let anyone who wants to play join the game -
Make a “New Kids” handbook for kids who come to school in the middle of the year -
Purchase extra school supplies for a teacher -
Say hello to three new people you’ve never talked to before -
Ask someone to play at recess -
Post positive messages on mirrors with post it notes -
Use chalk to write uplifting messages on the sidewalk/entrance to school -
Write a note to a former teacher -
Add your own idea.
Surprising others with kind acts
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Leave an encouraging note in a library book -
Give an unexpected gift “just because” -
Donate books to the library -
Ask for donations instead of birthday gifts on your birthday -
Attach quarters to Random Acts of Kindness Cards and attach to gumball machines -
Give your crossing guard or bus driver a thank you card -
Help someone with yard work -
Write thank you cards for community workers (garbage/recycling workers -
Design your own Kindness Calendar and share it with friends -
Smile at 10 people a day -
Tape money to a parking meter -
Paint kindness rocks and place in a park or on a pathway -
Write a letter or email someone who has made a difference in your life -
KindCraft’s 50 Random Acts of Kindness Checklist -
Add your own idea.
Helping children who are in foster care
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Collect and donate school supplies -
Run a toy drive for the holiday season -
Have a birthday bag event where you collect birthday items for kids -
Donate clothes you no longer wear anymore -
Donate books you are done reading -
Donate lego bricks or help sort them -
Host a book drive -
Add your own idea.
Spreading kindness in your own family
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Make breakfast for your parents -
Write your sibling a kind note -
Put your electronics down and spend quality time as a family -
Share your toys without whining -
Offer to do a siblings’ chore -
Have a device free meal together -
Forgive a family member -
Let a sibling go first -
Read a story to your sibling -
Call your grandparents -
Have someone trace you on a big piece of paper and mail a “hug” to your grandparents -
Add your own idea.
Being a good neighbor
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Mow your neighbor’s lawn -
Bring your neighbors cookies -
Offer to help carry in their groceries -
Leave happy notes all over your neighborhood -
Leave flowers on your neighbor’s porch -
Take your neighbors trash up to their garage for them -
Ask a neighbor that you don’t usually play with to play! -
Offer to help with your neighbor’s mail if they are going on vacation -
Add your own idea.
More KindCraft Resources
Please review the KindCraft Resources page for groups that may need the benefits of your project. With the permission of a parent, visit the organization's website. Are there ways listed on their website that give you more ideas on how you can help their cause? Or, with a parent’s permission, call the organization and ask them if they would be interested in the benefits of your project idea.
Narrowing Down Your Ideas
Of the ideas you reviewed above, which one activity made you feel most excited to start right away? (You can do more but for now, let’s pick just one.)
Commit to Your Project
FACT: Studies show that 70% of people who write down their commitment are more likely to accomplish the goal.
You guessed it, we want you to commit to your project choice!