Small gestures can really make a big difference in someone’s life. These “random acts of kindness” can even bless the person who is showing kindness to others. Here are a few ideas on how to show kindness to others –

• Compliment someone
• Let a person cut in front of you in line
• Put coins in an expired parking meter
• Be helpful
• Write a nice note
• Fill up someone’s water bottle
• Sing a song for someone
• Make a card and deliver it
• Draw a flower picture or give real flowers to someone
• Safely pick up garbage and throw it away
• Smile at someone who looks sad
• Forgive someone
• Help at an animal shelter
• Talk to someone who is lonely

Homeschoolers/Educators/Parents: sketch/color an illustration and label it. Theme: random acts of kindness. Listen to the audiobook story “Snow White” in Learning to Read: Favorite Fairy Tales. Read this story to someone. Write and say the word “kindness” five times so you can pronounce and spell it correctly. Put these words in alphabetical order: kindness, Snow White, dwarfs, attempt, apple, beauty, random. Use these words in a sentence. Describe how the dwarfs showed kindness to Snow White. List three ways how you can be kind to others. Be kind to someone today. (Skills: identify, comprehend, apply, organize, creative, affective, analyze, synthesize.)