Teachers!
Are your students struggling with
social issues or bullying?
Imagine your students' setting examples of compassion and inclusion for the rest of your school. Your kids growing into warm, resilient people who lift others up with their empathy and love!
Social-emotional learning and kindness are the gifts that help them build stronger connections, deeper friendships, and a sense of purpose that lasts a lifetime.
By nurturing positive values and emotional intelligence today, you're setting the foundation for their future success, academically, emotionally, and socially.
Browse to find invaluable tips and meaningful resources to make it easy for you to nurture a generation that thrives through kindness and connection.
These challenges deeply impact emotional and academic growth, and they ripple out to influence the wellbeing of classmates and teachers too!
By embracing SEL activities centered around kindness and friendship, you can help address social issues, enhance wellbeing, and curb negative behavior.
Also, include mindfulness and positive self-talk to spark meaningful changes that benefit and empower everyone.
SEL activities build emotional intelligence to help kids understand and regulate their emotions.
Kindness activities embed positive values and character traits that build friendships based on caring and mutual respect.
Positive affirmations and mindfulness create inner peace and the confidence to try new things.
SEL activities are essential classroom management tools for teachers to nurture wellbeing and a positive sense of self!
Save time and your sanity with engaging ways to foster warm connections in your classroom.
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TEACHERS & COUNSELORS
find time-saving and empowering Social Emotional Learning (SEL) lesson plans, activities, and worksheets to nurture kindness, mindfulness, social skills, and coping strategies
PARENTS
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Discover essential SEL activities and resources that boost happiness, wellbeing, and engagement.
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Random Acts of Kindness Day - 17 February
Pay It Forward Day - 28 April
World Kindness Day - 13 Nov
Most Loved SEL Resources
"My students were spiraling after winter break and becoming extremely unkind to peers and adults. I found this very helpful to teach both kindness and community since they all had to work together."
Taylor - 3rd Grade
"As a reminder at the end of the school year to be kind I did a bonus guidance lesson using this resource. Very helpful and great conversations were sparked from the ideas given. I will be using it regularly!"
Kaitlyn - 3rd Grade
"I have used this a couple of times now and not only is it easy and quick for teachers, the engagement that it generates within the classroom for students is exceptional. High in quality, easy & engaging to use, & practical!"
Megan - 2nd, 3rd, 4th Grade
"Love that this activity gives you the option to put in your own kind act or use the acts that are given. There is just something about these fortune tellers that all students love to create."
Samantha - 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th
"I have used this resource with several students and have a few more to introduce this to. So far it has been great to see the kids come up with ways to calm their anger."
Karen - 2nd Grade
"Great community-building resource.
I really liked how it included everyone - teachers, students, parents and the Principal. Thank you."
Suneela - K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th Grade
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My students had a difficult time last year writing encouragements.to one another. This resource allows students to have the words they want to share and transitions them into making encouragements on their own.
Dallas L. - Used in 3rd Grade with students with disabilities
Resource:
Compliment Bookmarks
We used this as a group kindness activity. They worked together with partners to color their posters. We then hung them up in the window for the whole community to see! They loved it! Thank you!
Sharlie W. - Used in Grade One
As a reminder at the end of the school year to be kind I did a bonus guidance lesson using this resource. Very helpful and great conversations were sparked from the ideas given. I will be using it regularly!
Kaitlyn M. - Used with 3rd Grade
I used this resource with our school's Kindness Club. We colored the bookmarks and hid them in books in our library. The Kindness Club members LOVED making the bookmarks, and I've received great feedback from our school's media specialist about the reactions from students who are finding the bookmarks. Thank you so much. 🙂
Shania B. - Used in 3rd, 4th, 5th grades
Resource:
Kindness Bookmarks Coloring Pages
I used this as a way for my students to bond with their buddy students in a younger grade. It allowed the students to interact with one another while helping to make something to display in the school.
Allyson J. - Used in 2nd Grade
Resource:
Kindness Coloring Pages
Love this!! I bought this for my special education Kinder class to have a set of high quality visuals to use with students when teaching and modeling appropriate coping strategies. I have a class book and a few students have their own book of strategies they have picked. The students love having a book with their name and their choices. Very happy I purchased this.
Allie C. - Used in Kindergarten with students with disabilities
My class have created this beautiful kindness quilt as part of our school's beginning of the year wellbeing focus on relationships and kindness. Every piece of the quilt is different and the words are so meaningful. We still look at it on the classroom wall from time to time, reflect and remind ourselves of the words.
Lyn C. - Used with 2nd Grade
Resource:
KIndness Quilt Quotes Bulletin Board
My students absolutely loved these decorations that I used for my door! We talk a lot about kindness throughout the year. Once this was all hung up on my door, my students loved the idea that they could each have a piece of 'confetti' and write one way we can show kindness. This will also be great to reference on Random Acts of Kindness week in February.
Taylor R. - Used with PreK-1st Grades with Learning Difficulties
Great community building resource. I really liked how it included everyone - teachers, students, parents and the Principal. Thank you.
Samantha R. - K, 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th grades
Resource:
Kindness Tree Bulletin Board
My students love making fortune tellers and what a better time than during the beginning of the year as a get to know you activity - they loved it!
Lori L. - Used in 3rd Grade
Resource:
Getting to Know You Fortune Teller
This resource is the perfect way to have students identify their emotions and consider strategies that they can use to regulate. The fact that the bookmarks are black and white, colouring in the strategy is such a good start to practising mindfulness while thinking about strategies. This resource is so, very much worth the money. It is jam packed with not only the bookmarks but colouring pages too that younger students could colour during mindfulness time or as a supporting resource to learning. I love this resource!
Megan V. - Used in 3rd & 4th Grades
Resource:
Coping Strategies Bookmarks
This resource is an important one to have in my teacher toolbox. I'm grateful for the way it is set up. It is both teacher and kid-friendly. Thank you.
I used the materials to make gratitude centers in the counseling center in Nov. Classes came to me and were grouped into different centers and got to move around. Best lesson ever, and it's my favorite topic.
Kimberley W. - 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th grades
Resource:
Gratitude Activities Bundle
I was looking for something unique to add to my classroom to help build classroom community and a safe learning environment. This was perfect! I haven't seen many things like this, and my students enjoyed creating it and seeing their work and their classmates' work displayed all together.
Sarah P. - Used in 4th Grade
Resource:
KIndness Quilt Quotes Bulletin Board
The font and text options were a great addition to this resource. The confetti is a great size that doesn't make it difficult to cut them all out. A nice and vibrant bulletin board to start the year!
Sara C. - Used in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th grades
Many teachers face challenges with disengaged students and disruptive behavior, often because children struggle to understand and manage their emotions. Without the right tools, they may find it difficult to connect with peers and fit into the classroom environment.
I'm Lis, and I deeply understand these struggles. That's why I'm committed to creating resources that help kids learn emotional regulation, build resilience, and foster kindness in themselves and others. My goal is to empower students with lifelong skills for handling big emotions and nurturing positive relationships. Read more about me and my why HERE!
