Ways to use this list
- Kindness week: spin one act each morning, do it before home time, and share how it went in the last five minutes of the day.
- Class challenge: add a paper link to a kindness chain for every act completed, and see whether it stretches across the room by the end of the month.
- Family habit: spin at breakfast for the day's kind act.
- Workplace: press At work and spin once at the Monday meeting, so everyone tries the same act that week.
- World Kindness Day on 13 November: each student spins their own act in the morning and writes it on a paper heart for a kindness board by the door.
- Younger grades: press One-minute acts, so five-year-olds can do the act straight away and come back to tell you before they forget.
Press Spin the wheel, tap the game or press the Space bar. Change the list in the box as you
like: add your own, delete what doesn't suit you, or write *2 after an entry to give it double the
chance. The game buttons switch the same list to a duck race, hat, claw machine and more.
The full list (43 entries)
- Write a thank-you note
- Compliment three people
- Hold the door
- Let someone go first
- Lend your best pencil
- Sit with someone new at lunch
- Invite someone to join your game
- Help a classmate with work
- Help a younger student
- Show a new student around
- Cheer for someone else's success
- Say thank you to a school worker
- Leave a kind sticky note
- Tidy up without being asked
- Leave the room tidy for the next class
- Return something to lost property
- Donate a book
- Learn something new about a classmate
- Water a plant
- Make someone laugh
- Smile at everyone you meet
- Tell someone why you appreciate them
- Draw a picture for someone
- Call a grandparent
- Help with the dishes
- Make a family member's bed
- Read to a younger child
- Help cook dinner
- Put a note in someone's lunchbox
- Let someone else choose the game
- Ask someone about their day and really listen
- Give someone a hug
- Send a drawing to a relative
- Help a neighbour
- Help someone carry something
- Pick up litter
- Chalk a kind message outside
- Put out water for the birds
- Thank a delivery driver
- Make someone a cup of tea
- Thank a colleague by name
- Offer to help with a task
- Introduce yourself to someone new
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Questions people ask
How do we do every act once?
No repeats until everyone is picked is on from the start, so every act comes up once before any repeat. With 43 acts and one a day, that lasts about two months of school days.
When is Random Acts of Kindness Day?
In the United States it is 17 February, often with a kindness week around it. World Kindness Day, marked in many countries, is 13 November. Both make good dates for a class challenge, though an ordinary Tuesday works just as well.
Which acts suit younger children?
Ones they can do at once, with no planning: hold the door, let someone go first, lend a pencil, invite someone into a game. Press One-minute acts for these. Calling a grandparent or chalking a message outside needs a grown-up to help or to say yes first.
Can students add their own ideas?
Yes, and their ideas often work best. Ask each student for one kind act they could do this week, type them in and the wheel becomes the class's own. Press 💾 Save to keep it all term.
Do any of the acts cost money?
No. Every act on the wheel is free: notes, compliments, helping out and tidying up. "Donate a book" works with one you have already read, and the cup of tea comes from what is already in the kitchen.