Make kindness pebbles

Before you begin 

• Use the safety checklist to help you plan and risk assess your activity. There's also more guidance to help you carry out your risk assessment, including examples.
• Make sure all young people and adults involved in the activity know how to take part safely.
• Make sure you’ll have enough adult helpers. You may need some parents and carers to help. 

Planning and setting up this activity

• You may wish to create some examples.

Running this activity

1. Gather everyone together and explain how rocks or pebbles are often painted and then hidden for others to find. You could show examples of kindness rocks to the group and read out the kind messages on them. Some people may have found rocks like this too.
2. Give everyone a plain rock or pebble, and they can start painting it.
3. As the painted rocks or pebbles dry, everyone should have another look at the example messages. If they take a while to dry, you could play a quick game or run this activity over two sessions.
4. Once they are dry, everyone should write a message on the rocks. The group could choose an example message they like or make up their own. Some good examples of messages might be:

• • You matter!
  • Shine bright
  • You’ve got this
  • Be kind to others and yourself.
  • Your smile brightens the world.
  • Always be yourself.
  • You are strong.
  • Believe in yourself.
  • Dream big!
  • You are enough.

5. Decide whether to place the rocks somewhere in the local community or whether to give them to someone else.