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Loved by thousands of teachers, Ripple Kindness offers ready-to-use SEL lessons and behavior tools that save hours of planning and help boost wellbeing, build friendships, and improve student behavior.
TEACHERS & COUNSELORS
Save time with ready-to-use SEL lessons, activities, and worksheets that help you teach kindness, mindfulness, social skills, and coping strategies.
PARENTS
Download free kindness printables, coupons, posters, and coloring pages to help your child build empathy and emotional skills at home.
Managing behavior, building a strong class community, and supporting student wellbeing can feel overwhelming, especially when you're juggling lesson planning and classroom management in elementary grades.
That’s where kindness printables and social emotional learning activities come in.
With ready-to-use kindness lessons, mindfulness worksheets, and classroom management tools that support both general and special education students, you'll save time while helping kids build emotional intelligence, regulate behavior, and develop meaningful friendships.
Social Emotional Learning Lessons Build Emotional Intelligence
Students learn to understand, express, and manage their emotions with easy-to-implement SEL lesson plans and activities.
Kindness Activities Strengthen Class Community
Kindness worksheets and group activities help students build caring relationships and a classroom culture based on respect.
Emotional Regulation Tools for Managing Strong Emotions
Help students calm down and refocus with emotional regulation handouts, calming strategies posters, and coloring pages, ideal for general and special ed classrooms.
Wellbeing Activities Support Mental Health
Support student wellbeing with engaging printables that build self-esteem and promote emotional safety.
Positive Self-Talk & Confidence Builders
Encourage a growth mindset with printable affirmations and strategies that help students believe in themselves and bounce back from setbacks.
Games and Crafts Make Learning Fun
From “getting to know you” games to SEL fortune tellers and kindness crafts, your students will love learning while they create and play.
Classroom Behavior Management Made Easier
Use whole-class behavior management tools to reduce disruptions, strengthen relationships, and support your classroom management style in elementary or special education settings.
Discover essential SEL activities and resources that boost happiness, wellbeing, and engagement.
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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
"I teach in a self contained classroom & work with students that have moderate to severe needs 2nd-5th grade. This product matches up really well with the essential element DLM standards and is a great resource for my setting."
Alexie - 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th 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
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
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
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
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!
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!
