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Bubble Gum Kindness Sorting Game to Teach SEL

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Inside: Use the bubble gum kindness activity to teach sel curriculum in a fun, hands-on way. 


One of the most fun things to do when I was a kid was to search around for a nickel or a quarter to put in the gumball machines at stores and restaurants. We always anticipated what color would fall down into our hands.

And while it never tasted as good as the watermelon Hubba Bubba my grandma would buy for me at the grocery store, it was always a treat to chew bubble gum as a kid.

Kids love bubble gum because it is usually saved as a treat. And even now that my kids are older, they still think of gum as a treat.

So this Bubble Gum Kindness Activity is a perfect year-round social emotional game perfect for centers.

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Why Social Emotional Learning is Important

Social Emotional Learning is a crucial part of any classroom’s lesson plans.

Related: Why We Should Teach SEL

It teaches our students problem solving skills, critical thinking skills and positive relationship skills. It builds up their Emotional Intelligence, helps bully-proof them, and research has shown that it improves their academic success.

Related: How Teachers Can Prevent Bullying

But to make social emotional learning and character education effective, we have to make it consistent, set clear expectations from our students, intentionally teach them the skills they need to be kind, and make it fun. 

To do that we can use Kindness Books like these, our 60 Kindness Conversation Starters, and fun, hands-on sel curriculum like our Kindness Bubble Gum Kind or Unkind Sort Activity.

Use the kindness bubble gum activity to teach sel curriculum in a fun, hands-on way. 

What’s Included in the Kindness Bubble Gum Kind or Unkind Sort Activity:

  • 24 gumballs with kindness or unkindness clipart in color
  • 24 gumballs with kindness or unkindness clipart in black and white
  • Kind and Unkind sorting gumball machines in color and black and white
  • Kindness worksheet to help kids show what they know and determine what is kind and what is not kind in color and black and white
  • 2 writing sheets: 1 for early writers/prewriters and 1 for writers.

Use the kindness bubble gum activity to teach sel curriculum in a fun, hands-on way. 

How to Use the Kindness Bubble Gum Activity

1. Purchase and print and laminate the gumball cards and the Kind or Not Kind Gumball Machines. If you print them in black and white, you can color in the cards first.

Offer kids skin color crayons so the clipart has diverse kiddos.

Use the kindness bubble gum activity to teach sel curriculum in a fun, hands-on way. 

2. Cut apart the cards

Use the kindness bubble gum activity to teach sel curriculum in a fun, hands-on way. 

3. Go over the pictures on the cards to ensure children understand what the picture depicts. You can use these as discussion starters before or after the activity.

4. The students will sort the cards by kind actions or unkind actions by placing the cards near the correct gumball machine.

They can work in small groups in centers, independently, or as a whole group with a pocket chart.

Use the kindness bubble gum activity to teach sel curriculum in a fun, hands-on way. 

5. To follow up the activity, students can complete the worksheet to show their understanding.

Use the kindness bubble gum activity to teach sel curriculum in a fun, hands-on way. 

6. To connect to writing and language arts studies, draw a picture/write how they will choose to be kind. Prewriters can dictate their answers and then draw a picture.

Use the kindness bubble gum activity to teach sel curriculum in a fun, hands-on way. 

Ready to get the Bubble Gum Kindness Kind or Unkind Sort Activity?

Use the kindness bubble gum activity to teach sel curriculum in a fun, hands-on way. 

Get The Bubble Gum Kindness Sort on Teachers Pay Teachers 

 

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Welcome to Coffee and Carpool: Raising Kind Kids.

I’m Nicole and am a recovering elementary school teacher, a mom to three super busy kids, and the founder of The Raising Kind Kids Club where we share strategies and resources with busy parents and educators to intentionally focus on kindness, family connection, and bullying prevention.

We have hundreds of paid and free done-for-you resources to make teaching kindness and social emotional learning to kids easy, fun, and hands-on. Email me at nicole@coffeeandcarpool.com if there’s a resource that you wish you had.

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