Have you heard about The Kindness Rocks project? What better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day this year than to join a national movement focused on encouraging everyone to spread kindness all through the year!
Instead of giving out paper Valentines that will get read once and then thrown away, consider making your own Valentines by using rocks and then encouraging others to join The Kindness Rocks Movement!
What is the kindness project?
The Kindness Rocks Project was started several years ago by a self proclaimed kindness encourager, Megan Murphy. Megan is from the New England area, where the rocks are smooth and round, perfect for painting inspiring messages!
You can listen to Megan’s podcast where she beautifully explains the Kindness Rock Project or check out the website, but basically, she got the idea to use rocks painted with inspiring quotes and messages to encourage and uplift complete strangers.
Megan would paint rocks, tag them with a Facebook hashtag, and then hide them for others to find and be inspired. Once someone finds a rock, they can post a picture of it, where they found it and how it impacted them on a local Kindness Rocks Facebook page where the artist can look and see how their rock impacted someone else! Then the finder can either keep the rock or re-hide it.
Valentine’s Day Kindness Rocks
This year for Valentines, we want to encourage and inspire you to try something new—something that will spread joy and kindness throughout the year, not just for one day!
Consider painting rocks for Valentines instead of cards, and include information on how to use the rock as a part of The Kindness Rocks Project. We made these FREE Valentine’s Day Cards you can tape your rock on, with instructions on the back explaining The Kindness Rocks movement, and what to do with your rock in Lancaster County!
How To Paint Rocks & Valentine Rock Ideas
Whether you are a child or an adult, painting rocks can be very fun, therapeutic, and simple too! Here is a great site with step by step instructions that will guide you through the process of rock painting. If you have a place to get your own rocks, like a nearby creek bed, you’re all set! If not, there are some really neat rock painting kits that we found on Amazon. Here are our favorites:
Inspiration, Help & Continued Learning
You might just fall in love with this kindness rocks painting and finding process—I recently had a friend find one at a Giant gas pump! To help get connected and get started, we’ve compiled some Lancaster County Kindness Rocks and Rock Painting events and social media groups for you to join.
Attend a Rock Painting Valentine’s Event
WHAT: The Lancaster County Central park will be hosting a Valentines Rock Painting party. The event will include a hike through the woods to find your rocks, then a chance to paint them. Register for this event or learn more here.
WHEN: Saturday, February 9th from 3:30-4:30pm
WHERE: 1 Environmental Way, Lancaster PA
Look What Other’s Have Done
Get inspired in your creativity by checking out some of our favorite pictures of Valentine Rocks, or add some of these Rock Quotes and Rock Jokes, to get clever with your messages!
Learn More about ROCKS
WHAT: Continue the learning by attending a STEM event at the Milanof-Schock Library in Mount Joy. In February, join geoscientist, Timothy D. Bechtel as he leads children friendly discussions and activities about rocks in Pennsylvania. Click here to register and find out more.
WHEN: February 21 and 28 from 6pm – 8pm
WHERE: Milanof-Schock Library
Join the Movement!
Did you know that there are A TON of Kindness Rock movements in the Lancaster County area? Here are just a few. Decide which one you want to join and write the name of the group on the back of your rock—then look to see if anyone has found it and how they have been blessed. Check them out, all the stories are so inspiring!
- Lancaster Rocks!
- 717 Rocks
- Lititz Rocks
- Ephrata PA Rocks
- Elizabethtown Rocks in PA
- PA Rocks
- Harrisburg + Rocks
- York County PA ROCKS!
- Hershey Rocks
- Columbia PA Rockz
We hope you are inspired to try something new with your Valentine’s Day cards this year, and are as excited about these kindness rocks as much as we are! Don’t forget to download your FREE Valentine’s Day “You Rock!” cards and remind your recipients to start hiding and finding kindness rocks in Lancaster County!
>> Download your Kindness Rocks Valentine’s freebies here. <<
