NEW Kindness at Home
We're excited to announce our new program for making kindness the norm at home!
At the Random Acts of Kindness Foundation, we believe kindness starts with one, and there is no "one" better than you (the parent or guardian to your kids) to start a kindness revolution at home. You have the power to set a kind tone for your entire household. What you do matters, and we are here to help. There's never been a better time to infuse more kindness at home!
With the Kindness at Home curriculum, you'll get:
- Quick, convenient kindness activities for families of all ages,
- Discussion topics, and
- Journal prompts emailed right to you each week.
Each month covers a different kindness concept and offers more detailed activities and a final concept project—beyond the emails—to help you bring your family closer together through kindness.
Download the parent / guardian guide to read details on how the program works & what you'll be doing.
Fill your home with kindness.
Enter your email below to get 24 weekly lessons in your inbox.
If you don't want to get weekly emails, you may download all the materials now or download individual units by clicking the links below.
Download Respect Unit
Download Caring Unit
Download Inclusiveness Unit
Download Integrity Unit
Download Responsibility Unit
Download Courage Unit
Download All Materials
The mission of The Random Acts of Kindness Foundation is to make kindness the norm™ in our schools, workplaces, homes & communities. We work toward that goal by creating free content that promotes kindness toward others & teaches important social emotional learning skills to kids.
All our resources for schools, home & community & the workplace are free.
We also have other resources to inspire you to be kind wherever you are—kindness ideas, kindness quotes, the kindness blog, kindness videos and kindness stories.
Kindness at School
Don't just expect kindness from your kids—teach them! We have taken our CASEL approved, highly effective, evidence-based Kindness in the Classroom® social emotional learning curriculum and made it better. By including a focus on equity, teacher self-care, and digital citizenship, we are excited to share a more engaging, relatable, and inclusive curriculum.
NEW High School Curriculum
Our new 16-week High School elective course will give you the opportunity to gather new and deeper insights about respect, caring, integrity, inclusiveness, and courage and to begin to apply them in new and more meaningful ways. And by completing your Kindness Capstone Project you can earn 50 community service credit hours to satisfy your graduation requirements.
Distance Learning
Mini-lessons
While academics are important during this time of distancing, we believe social emotional skills are incredibly valuable to our mental health.
For those of you looking to include social emotional learning into your daily/weekly curriculum, we've added some mini-lessons that can be done at home alone or with others in your household. Most importantly, take care of yourself and your own well-being. It's not easy to learn if you aren't practicing self care!
Also check out our distance learning tips for schools and parents and other free school resources below.
Kindness at Home & in Your Community
ANNOUNCING OUR NEW KINDNESS CHALLENGE!
We've designed a fun kindness challenge to help make kindness the norm™ at home & in your neighborhood. Your challenge (if you choose to accept it) is to complete a series of kindness activities to fill in 60 'hearts'. Each act of kindness is worth one, two or three 'hearts' based on how challenging they are: one-heart activities are quick and easy, two-heart activities are more involved, and three-heart activities are challenging & will take more time.
There's a good mix of activities: various random acts of kindness meant to be done in your home & neighborhood, writing prompts, self-care activities and fun coloring pages too. You choose which activities to do and when to do them—so no pressure. Just do the ones that sound fun to you.
Can you complete the challenge & fill in all 60 hearts?
#MakeKindnessTheNorm
You can also download a paginated PDF so you can make your own booklets at home. Click here for details.
Kindness at Work
Transform your workplace with our FREE 12 month kindness calendar. The calendar features monthly themes structured to create a kinder work culture. Each month offers daily ideas for individuals to complete in a few minutes or less. On top of the daily ideas, there is a team-based idea that can be used to celebrate kindness each month as a team!
Download 2021 CalendarSee our other resources for the workplace below...
NEW WORKPLACE RESOURCE
7 Steps to Creating
Kindness in the Workplace
The origin of the word culture comes directly from the Latin word cultura which means to grow or cultivate. Culture is key to a company’s success or failure. Creating a workplace where people feel connected, have a sense of purpose, and are appreciated and recognized for their contributions makes for a stronger, more successful organization.
This Kindness in the Workplace action planning guide includes seven key ingredients that make for a positive and kind culture where people want to show up and do their best:
- Setting a Tone
- Modeling Behavior
- Creating a Safe and Supportive Environment
- Strengths, Mistakes and Growth Mindset
- Trust, Boundaries and Belonging
- Communication and Collaboration
- Celebration
Download Kindness in the Workplace Guide
Download other helpful Kindness in the Workplace resources below.
A poster showing various ways you can be kind while at work. Hang this in the break room to inspire your team!
Recognize your teammates for their kindnesss by presenting them with a Kindness Award Certificate.
Start a fun game of Kindness Tag in your office where you do anonymous acts of kindness for your teammates.
SOCIAL DISTANCING
KINDNESS RESOURCES
Happy Heart Hunt
Let’s blanket our world with LOVE! It’s simple! Just make a heart from any object and tape it to a street-facing window to send your love out to the world. Encourage all your friends to do the same. Then, in a few days, take a family walk (keeping 6 feet distance from others!) to search for other hearts on houses. How fun it will be to watch the love grow!
Support a Local Retailer
If you have spare money, buy something from a local retailer from their online site.
Host a virtual dinner party
Use Skype, Zoom, Facetime or Google Hangouts to host a dinner party where everyone makes the same dish at home.
Create a list of things that make you happy
Create a weekly habit of listing things that make you happy, what you love about yourself and what you're currently grateful for.
SEE OUR INSPIRING COLLECTION OF
KINDNESS QUOTES
GO BE KIND AND DO A FEW
KINDNESS IDEAS
READ THE LATEST FROM
THE KIND BLOG
READ A FEW INSPIRING
KINDNESS STORIES
UPCOMING KINDNESS EVENTS
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