Inside: Use these kindness cookie resources to teach social emotional learning and encourage more kindness to others.
As a mom to three and a Girl Scout leader, we eat a lot of cookies around here.
We decorate cookies at Christmas, we sell Girl Scout cookies in winter and we make Friendship cookies.
Because cookies make most things better.
So cookies are a great way to sneak in some learning about social emotional learning and kindness.
When we want kids to speak and act with kindness more often, we have to intentionally teach them how and then give them lots of practice to make kindness a habit.
To make that easier, we gathered all of our best cookie kindness resources and put them all in one place because when we make learning fun kids won’t even realize they’re learning.
Other Food-Themed Kindness Resources
When we’re teaching kids about anything, we need to tap into what they’re already interested in to really engage their brains.
One simple way is with fun food-themed resources like pizza, watermelon, cookies and lemonade. You can use these food-themed kindness resources year-round to encourage more kindness and sneak in some hands-on social emotional learning:
Ice Cream Kindness Bundle
Pizza Kindness Bundle
Watermelon Kind or Unkind Sort
Popsicle Craft and Write
Apple Craft and Write
Apple Kind or Unkind Sort
Popcorn Kind or Unkind Sort
Lemonade Craft and Write
Kindness Recipe
And we use the resources in the Cookie Kindness Bundle.
What’s Included in the Kindness Cookie Bundle:
This Cookie Kindness Bundle includes 6 Kindness Activities:
- Emergent Reader: Gingerbread Cookies Kindness and writing
- Cookie Kindness Craft and Write
- Kindness game: Cookie Kind or Unkind sort
- Cookie-themed Kindness coloring pages
- Cookie Kindness Challenge to encourage more kindness
- Recipe for Friendship Cookies kids can make in a group
How to Use the Kindness Cookie Bundle:
1. Purchase and print out the cookie kindness resources you wish to use.
2. For the Cookie Kind or Unkind Sort, print out the cookie cards and cookie jars in color or in black and white. If you use black and white, color the cookies.
Students can sort the cookies with clip art during centers in a small group or use during your Morning Meeting as a discussion or group game.
3. Follow up with the worksheet so students can show what they know about kind and unkind behaviors.
4. Connect this to writing with one of the two writing sheets that comes with this resource.
5. For the Cookie Kind Craft and Write, students can create cookie kind art with small or large cookies. They can brainstorm and then write ways to be be kind more often to classmates, friends, teachers, and family members.
6. Then display the cookie craft and writes in your classroom or hallway and encourage kids to share what their writing says to connect to listening and speaking skills.
7. Kids can read our Gingerbread Cookie Kindness Emergent Reader to learn different ways to show kindness while baking.
8. Kids can follow up with gingerbread cookie writing and discussion starters.
9. These cookie-themed kindness coloring pages are perfect for early finishers, rainy day activities, or for calming down moments.
10. Encourage kids to speak and act with more kindness with this Cookie Kindness Challenge. Every time they’re kind, they can color in a chocolate chip. When they get to the end of the cookie, you can use positive reinforcement to encourage more kindness.
11. Kids can make these Friendship Cookies with classmates or friends and then eat them together or gift them away.
All of these cookie resources with a kindness focus will help get kids excited- because who doesn’t love cookies?- and sneak in some learning about kindness with tons of opportunities to be kind more often.
Ready to get the Cookie Kindness Bundle? Get it here.
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