FREE Kindness Printables for Kids and Adults
If you want to build connections, foster positive character traits, and increase engagement in your classroom, you need social-emotional learning resources. They are the secret classroom management and wellbeing weapon every elementary teacher needs!
Scroll down to see a range of free kindness activities for elementary students and teachers' favorite paid SEL resources to help you weave kindness and giving into your classroom or home.
You're sure to find a free printable kindness worksheets pdf to download or a more comprehensive resource such as online jigsaw puzzles, kindness checklists, coloring bookmarks, SEL coloring pages, my popular kindness fortune tellers, coping strategies for anxiety and mental health, and lots more.
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Students feel proud to see their artwork displayed in this stunning kindness quilt.
This back-to-school craft is a BEST SELLER collaborative poster for a vibrant and meaningful bulletin board you can display all year.
30 mindful coloring pages calm your students as they transform them into beautiful quilt squares. The Google Slidesâ„¢ templates can double as writing prompts for students to contribute unique positive messages to foster a sense of community in your classroom.
This gorgeous Kindness Tree is a collaborative project that sparks excitement as it grows with every act of kindness shared.
A comprehensive pack of resources helps build meaningful connections among students, teachers, and parents, as everyone is invited to participate in the challenge. Use it for a grade, year level or the whole school, to promote a respectful and inclusive environment and boost community spirit.
Includes easy-to-follow instructions and a variety of printable options and sizes for a beautiful bulletin board in any space.
Teachers asked for a kindness checklist they could customize so here it is! Enjoy the convenience and ease of print-and-go worksheets or personalize your kindness challenge with the editable Google Slidesâ„¢ version where students or teachers can add their own acts of kindness.
Perfect for Kindness Day, this set also includes options for both print and digital collaborative activities. Students can team up to conquer the kindness challenge while building empathy and cooperation along the way. Don't miss out on this popular activity to bring your classroom together!
These empathy coloring pages, worksheets and activities help to improve social skills, nurture relationships, and reduce bullying.
These important lessons help students notice emotional cues, observe behavior, and pay attention to body language while learning how best to respond in different situations to support others.
This is a great resource for your SEL toolbox and a must to get students back to school in a kind and caring way!
Teachers tell me how much their students love this low-prep kindness challenge. After coloring bookmarks and writing a nice note on the back, they sneak off to the library on a fun kindness mission.
As they color, they're reading positive messages about kind behavior to open their minds to friendly interactions for a happy, and inclusive classroom.
Kids beg to color more bookmarks and the more they hide, the greater impact their kindness has on the wider school community!
Empower your students with strategies to navigate challenging emotions to equip them with practical tools for emotional resilience.
With simple text and pictures, students can learn ways to calm themselves and make a personal deck of strategies that work best for them.
This is an essential self-regulation tool for your calm down corner to help students learn to control their emotions. The larger calm down cards are ideal for a classroom deck while the smaller size makes an effective tool for students to use at school and home.
If you haven't read Enemy Pie to your students, they're missing out! It's such an engaging book for building friendships and a great classroom management tool.
This packet has lessons about friendship, acceptance, and conflict resolution. It includes craft, writing activities, reading comprehension exercises, and worksheets to nurture positive character traits and improve social skills.
Students learn to cooperate, include others, and be considerate. Use as back-to-school or counseling lesson to address bullying.
This big bundle of bookmarks and coloring pages reinforces kindness, friendship, and gratitude. Students learn about giving compliments and build confidence, self-esteem, and a growth mindset through positive affirmations.
There are hundreds of printables to use during Random Acts of Kindness Week, International Day of Friendship, World Compliments Day, and Thanksgiving. They're also great no-prep mindfulness activities for early finishers or counselors.
Students need social-emotional skills to build friendships and classroom community. A beautiful way to increase confidence and connections is by teaching them to give compliments.
This fun activity is similar to the kindness bookmarks challenge and just as popular as students excitedly set off on a secret mission to spread joy!
Watch your student blossom as their buckets are filled with meaningful compliments that make them feel valued and loved!
These Kindness Fortune Tellers or Cootie Catchers are a paper craft your students will absolutely LOVE! I'm often told how kids beg their teacher to play this fun SEL game over and over as it creates so much excitement and connection.
Apart from being fun and educational, this lesson encourages acts of kindness to nurture positive character traits and improve the community in your classroom.
The pack includes a Google Slidesâ„¢ file for students to customize their fortune teller with their own good deeds or you can print the ready-to-use sheets.
My popular kindness coloring pages are a fun mindful break for students needing to settle down to focus.
They're often used for fast finishers, in calm down corners, as a homework assignment or an art project. But these worksheets are more than a bit of fun as they help develop fine motor skills and hand eye co-ordination.
They also include kindness messages to nurture essential character traits and help banish negative thinking. They're perfect for Kindness Week, Friendship Day, or counselors.
These kindness coloring pages improve fine motor skills, handwriting, and teach character traits through fun quotes and simple illustrations.
They're perfect for brain breaks, early finishers, or Random Acts of Kindness Day to promote good behavior and a growth mindset.
The pack includes 30 unique coloring pages, bonus bucket filling content, and resources to enhance your SEL curriculum to spark discussions on kindness.
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Students thrive when they build connections and what better way to encourage a positive community in your classroom than teaching them to be kind! Kindness is an essential character trait that will stay with and help them succeed throughout their lives.
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This comprehensive back-to-school kindness bundle is your ultimate toolkit for promoting confidence, caring, respect, and positive behavior in your classroom.
These fun activities and lessons reinforce essential character traits and create an inclusive, kind classroom culture. Students enjoy exciting challenges where they feel like they're on a secret mission, work together to create beautiful bulletin boards, hone their writing skills, relax with coloring pages, reinforce concepts with posters, engage in exciting games, and so much more.
This versatile back-to-school kindness bundle includes:
