The Circles of HOPE Project
Draw a circle—any kind: a simple eye-catching art circle or gather a circle of friends ready to spread joy.
Either way, you’re sparking change.
This is a movement where simple “arts of kindness” turn tiny actions into mighty impact—friends and families creating little art pieces and leaving encouraging notes of hope. Even if you don’t feel “artistic,” forming a circle and writing one note makes you vital. Start here with our free, artist-made printables: Click here.
Let’s spread “arts of kindness” everywhere we go—painting love onto the canvas of our world with truth-filled notes in a time that needs light.
One small invite can start a kindness chain reaction. If everyone joins, invites one more, and writes one encouragement note each week for 30 days, imagine the ripple: an avalanche of hope.
So be the spark. Start your circle. Leave your note. Ignite change—who’s ready?
You can use my free printables or you can use your own ideas. I create my notes on circles because circles are more eye-catching. But, you don't have to. It's really about "arts of kindness"! I have a shop with lessons on drawing some cute animals. You can use the animals you create and then cut the animals out and write a note on the back to encourage someone. For ideas on what to write click here.
Before I explain more about the project let me remind you how deeply loved by God you are! His love is unchanging, unstoppable, unwavering, unconditional and never-ending. Nothing can alter that! That is the hope that is most important for me to share with you! You were made with a purpose! You were not an accident or created by happenstance. Your life matters!
Let's gather circles of friends and our families to create circles of hope. Vincent Van Gogh once said, "There is truly nothing more artistic than to love people."
So, let’s join together and paint the world with the colors of hope! I will make this simple for those who don't feel creative or who are living busy lives. For the creatives I have art lessons and inspiration. There is no right or wrong way to spread hope through acts of kindness!
Leaving the notes can be a family outreach easily knit into your weekly schedule. I like leaving them randomly at coffee shops, gas pumps, grocery stores and places people frequent. There is no right or wrong place! Everyone needs hope and encouragement.
If inviting someone into the Circles of Hope Project each week seems daunting, I have a printable "invitation" that can be put on community mailboxes, local coffee shops, community boards. Or you can use the mini invitations that you can print front and back to leave with your hope circles or give to friends. The back explains what the Circles Of Hope Challenge is about.
Since some people are super busy, subscribers to my site will have full access to a digital library with Hope Circles by artists who have given permission to use their art to create hope circles for others to use. I am so grateful for their kindness in letting their art be used as a tool to encourage others. Then, you can simply print, cut and write an encouraging note of your own if you's like.
If you miss a week or two, then begin again, and combine the weeks you missed into one week. Or just keep going! Grace... no pressure is meant to be added to your lives! This is a celebration of kindness and an opportunity to be the good you want to see in the world!
The inspiration for creating a 30 day challenge came from a children's book called "One Grain Of Rice" by Demi. It is a wonderful book and a page in the back of the book clearly maps out the math. Watch the video, at the bottom of this page, to see the math behind the fact that your life, like one simple grain of rice, can multiply from 1 to over a billion in 30 days. Let's dream big and stay small! Individually, we are like a small grain of rice. But together we become so much more and billions of hearts can be touched with hope!
