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Hanukkah Kindness Role Playing Cards for Kids to Practice Kindness

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Inside: Use these Hanukkah Kindness Role Playing Cards with kids to practice how to be kind towards others during  Hanukkah. 


While there is no one way to be kind, there are many ways to be unkind.

And when kids are around family they haven’t seen in a while or are expected to sit still through a long, formal dinner with food they’re not used to eating, or don’t react to a gift in an expected way, they can quickly get labeled as rude.

So to prepare our kids for Hanukkah, we can intentionally teach them ways to be kind and polite during December and give them time to practice these new skills.

Role Playing gives children a safe space to practice new skills they’re learning that may otherwise feel overwhelming if they were not given time to practice. 

So families and classrooms can use these Hanukkah Kindness Role Playing to intentionally practice different ways to be kind during December to set our kids up for more kindness “success” during the eight nights of Hanukkah.

Use these Hanukkah kindness role playing cards to help intentionally teach kids to be kind and giving them time to practice.

Hanukkah Kindness Activities for Social Emotional Learning 

We could teach kindness as an isolated moment, but that’s not the reality. The real power of kindness is we can be kind every day, every month in our simple normal everyday interactions with others. 

So the best way to teach kindness is alongside other lessons and holidays: reading with kindness, writing with kindness, and Hanukkah with kindness.

And since kids already love Hanukkah, it’s a perfect conduit to teach other important skills: like Social Emotional Learning and kindness. 

We can use the holiday and the menorah and the dreidels and the gifts to our advantage to encourage more kindness.

And we can use Hanukkah and winter-themed kindness resources like these:

Winter Kindness Challenge:

This winter kind kids challenge will help kids be kinder to those around them. This is perfect for December kindness activities for kids. #kindnessactivities #kindnessactivitiesforkids #kindkids #kindnessmatters #kindnesschallenge #kindnesschallengeforkids #winteractivitiesforkids

Winter kindness Notes to pass out to friends and neighbors

Winter Kindness Notes are perfect for kids to leave for neighbors and friends. It's a great way to spread kindness during the winter months.

Winter Ultimate kindness Bundle

You can play our Hanukkah Kind or Unkind Sort Game and write about the ways we can be kind during Hanukkah and winter.

Use this Hanukkah kind or unkind sort as a game to focus on kindness and social emotional learning during Hanukkah.

You can read Hanukkah Kindness Books like these:

Gracie’s Night: A Hanukkah Story

Oskar and the Eight Blessings

Oskar and the Eight Blessings

Latkes and Applesauce

Hanukkah Kindness Emergent Reader

We also spread kindness throughout the eight nights with this Countdown to Hanukkah Kindness Advent Calendar

Materials needed for Hanukkah Kindness Activities #Jewishcrafts #Hanukkahprojects

Or you can read this Emergent Reader: We All Celebrate Differently

And we can intentionally practice being kind in different ways with these Hanukkah Kindness Role Playing Cards.

How to Use these Hanukkah Kindness Role Playing Cards

1.  Print out the Hanukkah Kindness Role Playing Cards on cardstock and cut them apart (download them below).

Use these Hanukkah kindness role playing cards to help intentionally teach kids to be kind and giving them time to practice.

2. Tell the kids you are going to practice acting out ways to be kind during Hanukkah (sharing, turn-taking, giving compliments, using manners).

3. Read a scenario on the card such as: “When you see someone’s menorah.” The idea on the card is to say, “Your menorah is so pretty!” Brainstorm other things to say since there’s never just one way to be kind. (ie: I love your menorah, Your menorah is so shiny.)

Use these Hanukkah kindness role playing cards to help intentionally teach kids to be kind and giving them time to practice.

4. Invite kids who are interested to practice acting it out. Hand them a pretend present and have them practice saying one of the brainstormed ways to react when they open a gift.

5. Practice with other scenarios/role playing cards. Have them practice complimenting decorations or act out how to greet family members and let them practice asking for the gifts they want in a polite way. They can brainstorm ways they can be helpful during Hanukkah.

6. As kids get more confident, invite other students to act out the scenarios and take on the roll of passing out the pretend gifts as well as receiving the gifts or greeting people they see in public.

7. You can also brainstorm things to NOT say that would be unkind or unintentionally rude during Hanukkah (Ew, I hate this dinner, I don’t like this gift, These latkes are disgusting, Why didn’t I get everything on my list?, Forgetting to say thank you if they’re able to, etc) You can act out the unkind actions and have them try it again in a kind way.

Download the free Hanukkah Kindness Role Playing Cards here.

Use these Hanukkah kindness role playing cards to help intentionally teach kids to be kind and giving them time to practice.

 

Use these Hanukkah kindness role playing cards to help intentionally teach kids to be kind and giving them time to practice.

 


70 of the best gift ideas to celebrate Hanukkah #Hanukkkah #Giftideas #holidaygifts

Hanukkah crafts for kids are a fun way for families and kids to celebrate Hanukkah each December. #Hanukkah #Chanukkah #Hanukkahcraftsforkids #Hanukkahactivitiesforkids #Hanukkahcraftideas #coffeeandcarpool #judaicacrafts

 

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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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