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Random Acts of Kindness Date Night

Looking for random acts of kindness ideas? This random acts of kindness list includes lots of great ideas to help you spread some kindness in the world!

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Random Acts of Kindness Date
Price: We spent about $30, but you could do this for only about $5!
Location: Anywhere! Get creative where you live!


I really love October-December because I feel like it’s so easy to find holiday-themed dates. We never seem to fit in all the fun things we want to do together around this time! When it turns Thanksgiving season I find most our dates are cooking based or race-based, since running season hits full swing in Arizona.

This year we wanted to do something a little more thankful, and a little more service-oriented.

Random Acts of Kindness Ideas

I have always been inspired by my dear friend Chrissy from Let Me See You Sparkle, who does service and random acts of kindness (RAOK) as a way of life. Every couple of months something sweet and unexpected shows up in my mailbox from Chrissy. She is truly the most gracious, giving human alive and the world is a better place because of her! So, I decided one day I wanted to copy her and turn a RAOK event into a date night, and that’s just what we did!

We came up with 10 things to do, and planned to take about 2-3 hours to do them.

But if you’re looking for tons of RAK ideas, we have another post sharing 60 Random Acts of Kindness ideas you won’t want to miss! 

Random Acts of Kindness Ideas List

1. Leave a nice message on random cars- Have an “Extra” great day was left for the owner to find. Extra Gum we found to be a perfect item to leave for a few of our RAOK, so we decided to give Extra for a few items.

#giveextra Random Acts of Kindness

2. Pay for someone behind you at a drive-in.

3. Candy at the movie/Redbox “Here’s some treats to enjoy with your movie!”
I got to watch the finder of this one, the lady looked around puzzled. Then, she smiled big, and put the candy in her purse. Mission accomplished!

Random Act of Kindness Idea

Acts of Kindness Ideas

4. A personal favorite. Start by finding a book you love at a bookstore. Then, leave a note with the cash to purchase the book for someone to find.

RAOK Bookstore

5. Find a fire truck parked at a restaurant or head to a fire station and leave a thank you note for the firefighters- “Thanks for the “Extra” long hours you put in- particularly on holidays!”

RAOK ideas

6. Head to a favorite dessert place and leave a gift card or cash and let someone know dessert is on you for the night. We adore the Sweet Tooth Fairy and stopped to get some cake bites to fuel our running around. We waited for the right moment to leave the note and gift card on the sign out front- “Tonight’s treat is on us!”

Easy Random Acts of Kindness to Do

 

Enjoy this Random Act of Kindness

Easy Random Acts of Kindness Ideas

7. Leave a dollar in the dollar bins at Target. I went to go look at nail polish and came back to find it gone. This one goes fast and I’m sure made that person smile! Also, you know there is always someone happy to buy one of the cute Target items.

Ideas list of random acts of kindness
 

Giving Thanks Random Acts of Kindness Idea

8. Thank a Police Officer! They sure put in a lot of long hours and are mistreated by most of the public. We wanted to find some on duty to leave a note “Thanks for making our city “Extra” safe!”

This proved a little difficult! The first we found we were about to park by the car only to watch them come out of a building with a person in handcuffs. Can you imagine “Hey once you get that poor shoplifting teen in the back, can I give you something?” Yeah, just not a good idea.

Not Giving Up on RAOK

The next was a hospital, thinking there’s always a car there. It took us a very long time to get to it due to a terrible rollover on the freeway. When we got there we realized- rollover- duh, this isn’t a good time! They were all so busy and we didn’t want to stop them.

We then found some parked eating dinner, only to head up to the car and notice the “K9 Unit” sign, with dogs barking at us. That wasn’t going to work.

We gave one last attempt and headed to the movie theaters. We were thrilled to find a parked Sheriff’s car with two deputies! Score! Notice the car in the picture below, I was seriously gearing up my bravery to approach them.

List of Random Acts of Kindess

I was ready to walk up and hand them the note when they walked away to do a lap around the building. My heart raced and I hurried fast to set two notes on the car. So fast Jacob couldn’t even get a non-blurry pic of my terrified self. The people around us looked at me like I was dropping something harmful and boy, the adrenaline rush!

But mission accomplished! I hope it made their night when they returned.

RAOK Ideas

9. Coins taped to candy machine are always a fun way to surprise kids!
As we walked away we caught a preteen finding these. At first I was like- no we went to a child’s play place on purpose! Then I thought about it, what a rough time of life to be a preteen girl. You take that $1.25 and treat yourself to whatever!

She had the biggest smile on her face and could hardly believe her luck! I watched her get giddy when she noticed there was more than one. Basically, it made my night!

List of RAOK
 

10. Leave coins at the Laundromat.
We went to two before we found one that was coin operated. If you haven’t been to one outside of a college town they can actually be kind of tough places to visit. There are often a lot of people who look really down on their luck.
We decided it wasn’t appropriate to bring the DSLR in, so sly phone shots it was! I wish we had done more of this. I was thinking how it would have made my day as a college student always in need of quarters!

Random Acts of Kindness Date Night Ideas

 

Date night: Random acts of kindness

This may be one of my favorite dates we’ve ever done! It had been a really hard week for us emotionally with some more infertility problems. Additionally, it’s amazing how service always snaps you right back into place to realize how good you have it and that there really is more to life than just you and your problems.

Also, for only about $20 or less, you can seriously spread a lot of happiness in the world with these easy random acts of kindness ideas!

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41 Comments

  1. I love the police office RAK! I actually tried to leave a RAK for our local police detective and I was a nervous wreck!!! LOL!

  2. Laverne Helfert says:

    This is a really cool idea for a date with you spouse, but you could also do it as a family outing too to encourage kids to be kind to others. Thanks for the tip. Greatly appreciated.

    1. fridaywereinlove says:

      I so agree! It would be fantastic to do it with your kids too!

  3. I love all of these ideas!! I will be doing these with my kids for a night of our advent calendar at the holidays! Thanks for the great ideas

    1. fridaywereinlove says:

      Hooray, I hope you have a blast!

  4. freecloudunlockertool.com says:

    Ridiculous quest there. What occurred after? Good luck!

  5. This is one of the best ideas I've ever seen. I'm going to ask my husband out on one of these dates. I LOVE the RedBox one.

  6. I love these! The book is particularly awesome – I can imagine sharing a favorite quote from the book or something else for them to look forward to.. 🙂 And your descriptions are awesome – it sounds like so much fun. 😀

    xo,
    lauriel

  7. David Dial says:

    Wow! What an amazing night. I love your creativity in finding ways to give “extra.” Thank you for sharing this inspiring post! #client

  8. I love doing “pay it forward” things and it's so sweet that you made this into a date night! You guys are great people!

  9. Winter White says:

    I absolutely love this post and I got all giddy just reading all your acts of kindness! You have inspired me to do the same with my family. Thank you SO much XOXO!

  10. What a fun idea! My husband and I have wanted to save up all month long to out for dinner to leave a super awesome tip to surprise the waiter/waitress. I used to work in the food industry and working so hard only to not get tipped was a bummer! I love the Extra gum idea! Thanks for sharing!

  11. Chrissy Fralick says:

    Greatest idea ever!! I plan on doing this with my kids 🙂

  12. Ayana Pitterson says:

    LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THIS and I am DOING IT! It 's such a perfect way of brightening up the day of a complete stranger. Thanks and I am pinning and DOING it. THANK YOU.

    Thrifting Diva

  13. Esther Ju*Lee says:

    I love this idea!! 🙂 you guys are the best! maybe we will have to do something similar for one of our dates.

  14. Miranda Myrabev says:

    This is by far the most wonderful gift you can give another human being(s) you done amazingly and I know you didnt do it for recognition but out of your heart. God bless you both abundantly and may you never lack anything

  15. I cannot tell you how much I LOVE this! You have inspired me to do this! I am going to do something next week! LOVE THIS!

  16. Erica Brooks says:

    Love these ideas. It's amazing how doing something so small could have such a big impact on a persons day.

  17. Taneja's Bride says:

    This is adorable! I'm going to have to do one or more of these!! <3 I love making someone's day! <3

  18. This actually sounds like the best date ever!! I am definitely going to try and get my boyfriend to join me on this one this weekend!

    Katie <3

  19. Oh my gosh! This is the best! 🙂 I seriously love this so much and you have definitely inspired me to do some RAOK of my own! <3

  20. Sridhar Chandrasekaran says:

    You have such an interesting blog. Thanks for sharing, I enjoyed reading your posts. All the best for your future blogging journey.

  21. Brendy Beauty says:

    These are totally awesome! What a great way to share some love!

  22. Lindsay Living Vegan says:

    This is so sweet!! I love this 🙂

  23. i love this. such a great idea and a great reminder to pay it forward!

  24. Chelsea Olivia says:

    LOVE the Redbox candy bag idea. That is so sweet!

  25. Karissa Ancell says:

    What great ideas, I love this!

  26. Seriously LOVE the money ideas! I do like the other ideas as well, but I would be nervous about accepting candy/food items from others. That's me and my craziness though. 😉

  27. This is AWESOME!! It's sounds dumb, but do you feel nervous doing all of the other RAOK in public, not just for the cops??

  28. Maryn Goolsby Favors says:

    That is too cute – reminds me of things my girlfriends and I used to do as teenagers in our hometown 🙂 love!

  29. Caitlin Cheevers says:

    This is so fun! I absolutely LOVE the book idea!

  30. spiffykerms says:

    Not sure that everyone would appreciate a bunch of tape stuck to their car window – lol! But I do love a good RAOK, especially putting a tenner inside a book at a bookstore and say “it's on me” or something. Love that, or paying for the person behind you in a drive-thru 🙂

  31. Jamie Lewis says:

    This is seriously awesome. OMG I love this. Definitely sharing!

  32. Rebekah Clarke says:

    This is really great! I definitely want to do something like that 😀

  33. Definitely sharing this with my twitter audience 🙂 (@stylishgeek)

  34. This is the best thing that I've read ALL day! I'd love to do something like this with my husband–what a sweet date idea AND a great way to make a bunch of other people's days brighter, too! 🙂

  35. runawayfreckles says:

    This is the best ever!!!! What an amazing thing to do especially this close to Christmas! I love it and will be borrowing your idea 🙂

  36. Katie Elizabeth Hawkes says:

    Seriously, if I found a dollar at a dollar store or the dollar section of Target i'd be happy for days. So great.

  37. indeazgirl says:

    You're the best!! I'm sorry you had a hard week (you are in my prayers!) , but this made me cry a few happy tears by thinking of the days you made doing this! I love you two- your love for each other and your creativity!