Inside: Use these acts of kindness coloring sheets for kids as boredom busters or as kindness posters. When my kids were little, I made sure to have a coloring book and a bag of crayons with me wherever we went. We colored in the doctor’s office, in restaurants and while we waited for practically anything […]
Ideas for Your Classroom
Celebrate our Differences: We Are All Shades of Brown Reader
Inside: Use this We Are All Shades of Brown Emergent Reader to celebrate our differences and also showcase how similar we are. I’m about as fair-skinned as they come. So when I first started teaching my very diverse group of Kindergartners during my first year of teaching, one of the first things I did was […]
Kindness Placemats for Early Childhood Classrooms
Inside: Use these kindness placemats for snack time or lunch time in early childhood classrooms. My kids no longer eat snack at their desk and lunch inside their classroom. But when they were younger and we were in early childhood education classes, that’s all they did. And each year, their teacher would give them a […]
Bubble Gum Kindness Sorting Game to Teach SEL
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 […]
Pirate Treasure Kindness Sort Game to Teach SEL
Inside: Use this pirate treasure kindness sort game to teach social emotional learning in a fun, hands-on way. My kids always loved hunting for treasures at the park and in the sandbox at school. They came home with pocketfuls of sequins and shiny rocks and pennies and beads. And part of the fun is the […]