Inside: Create an I am Lucky Shamrock Shape Poem to help kids focus on gratitude and why they’re already lucky. My kids love all the holidays. They count down to it the day after the previous holiday is over. And now that it’s March, we bring out the green shamrocks and leprechauns and gold coins. […]
Teaching Kind Kids
A Year of Kindness Crafts to Focus on Social Emotional Learning
Inside: Use this list of 12 kindness crafts you can use throughout the year to tie social emotional learning to each holiday. As an elementary school teacher, we planned everything month to month, based on the holidays of that month. I still know that in February, we covered Groundhog Day and seasons, President’s Day, Black […]
Get Kids to Be Kind More Often with these 60 Kindness Questions
Inside: To encourage your kids to be kind, download these free printables with 60 kindness questions you can use to talk with your kids about how to be kinder people. As my daughter got in the car this afternoon after school, I asked her to tell me three things about her school day. After telling […]
Ladybug Craft: Lucky to Be Your Friend Craft and Writing
Inside: Use this Lucky to be your friend Ladybug Craft and Writing for social emotional learning. Ladybugs have always had a special place in our family since my eldest daughter’s nursery was decorated in them and we called her Addy Bug. Maybe because ladybugs are lucky. So whenever one lands on us, we make sure […]
Kindness Bees Craft for Social Emotional Learning
Inside: Use these kindness bees crafts to help teach social emotional learning and encourage kids to bee kind. With their pollination skills, bees are the literal building blocks of this Earth. And with their rapid decline, we often hear that we need to be kind to the bees. So bee crafts are the perfect addition […]