October is a fun month to do kind deeds for people in and outside of our homes with the Halloween/Fall theme. Below are 31 service activity ideas for the month of October. Choose to do one a day, add your own, or choose just a few if that is all you can do. Enjoy!!
1. Rake leaves for your neighbors and place them in pumpkin garbage bags on their lawn.
2. Make candy/caramel apples and deliver them to someone in your community.
3. Visit a retirement home or a home of an older couple and decorate pumpkins together.
4. Take some apple cider and/or donuts to a friend who is feeling sad.
5. Clean a cemetery or a headstone of someone you know.
6. Go “Boo” another family with treats without getting caught.
8. “Spook” someone by doing acts of kindness around the house.
9. Take someone you want to get to know better, to a farm and pick out pumpkins.
10. Read and/or sing with small kids. Ex: The Itsy-Bitsy Spider and Halloween themed books that aren’t scary.
11. Outline your body in chalk on a driveway. Write "Don’t forget some 'Body' loves you!" Add caution tape around the scene.
12. Go to an animal rescue shelter and play with the cats and bring the dogs bone treats!
13. Dress up in a costume and deliver Candy Grams (notes with candy) to people.
14. Volunteer to help someone clean their house and reduce their cobwebs. Don’t forget to bring your broom!
15. Make a cauldron of food for someone in need.
16. Tape ghost cutouts on someone’s door with positive cute messages and say “you’ve been ghosted.”
17. Do a blood drive or donate blood.
18. Help at a soup kitchen.
19. Donate clothes to your local thrift shop, adding old Halloween costumes or decorations.
20. Go haunting (hunting) for strangers to serve.
21. Take some cough drops to someone with a cold to help stop the coffin (coughing).
22. Send a Halloween care package to a military personnel or for someone on a service mission.
23. Make homemade pumpkin or zucchini bread and deliver it to a neighbor or friend.
24. Call someone that is like a "Mummy" (mom) to you to tell them you admire them.
25. Host a hot tubbing party to help relax everyone’s bones and muscles.
26. Write letters to people to help lift their spirit.
27. Make lanterns and host a "Lantern Walk".
28. Host a murder mystery dinner and game night with neighbors you want to get to know better.
29. Plan a trunk-or-treat for your neighborhood.
30. Put on a Halloween carnival for neighborhood kids and friends.
31. Host a neighborhood block dinner potluck.
Let us know which of these service ideas you try out, and if you have any others to add to our list. Let's Serve!
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