The Kindness Rocks Project

The Kindness Rocks Project is a viral trend where people, commonly children, paint pebbles or cobbles and leave them for others to find and collect.

[2][3][4] Alice Brock, a Cape Cod resident who had been painting rock art since the 1960s, claimed credit for helping spread the phenomenon worldwide by sending painted rocks to her friends and family in New York City and Europe.

Rocks are painted as a social-emotional learning activity for kids, as well as to support particular charities, events or movements.

[3][6][7] Generally, rocks which are hidden are intended to be picked up, photographed and put on Facebook, and then re-hidden in a different spot.

[9] #Islastones was a rock-painting movement in support of Isla Tansey, a girl diagnosed with DIPG, a terminal cancer.