Inside: Use this Kindness Kites Kind or Unkind Sort to help students determine what is kind and what is not during this sel center activity. Every February when the days are cold and dreary and dark way too early, I start longing for the warmer weather that spring promises. I start hoping for days spent […]
Teaching Kind Kids
Flower Kindness Craft for Friends to Share and Give as Gifts
Inside: This flower kindness craft and friendship flower are the perfect way to show friends they are loved and to spread more kindness. My youngest daughter is lucky enough to have a bestie. Not a ‘we like each other and like to play with each other’ kind of friend. But a ‘I’ve got your back, […]
Volunteer Challenge for March for Families to Spread Kindness
Inside: Spread kindness as a family through this Family Volunteer Challenge for March by helping cheer up and connect with senior citizens with this simple art project. After my grandma passed away years ago, my mom handed me a gigantic accordion folder. Inside, it was almost every note, card and drawing I had ever made […]
Holiday SEL Bundle of Activities to Teach Character Education
Inside: Use this Holiday SEL Bundle to teach social-emotional learning and character education for each major holiday. In our house, we absolutely live for the holidays. As soon as one holiday is over, we tear down the decorations, put up the new ones and start the countdown to the next holiday. Maybe it’s because in […]
Tik Tok Resources
Welcome and we’re so glad you found us! At Coffee and Carpool: Raising Kind Kids we help parents and educators intentionally teach kids how to be kind, create a stronger family connection, and bully-proof their kids. Nicole Black is a recovering elementary school teacher, a mom to three super busy kids, and mostly survives on […]