Kindness Activities & Social Skills SEL Lessons - Craft, Coloring Pages, Writing

This Kindness & Bucket Filler social emotional learning curriculum teaches Kindergarten, first grade, and second grade kids how to be kind, giving, and a bucket filler. It includes five detailed social skills lessons and fun kindness activities (crafts, coloring pages, bulletin board, writing, games, and worksheets). Great for random acts of kindness week or February Valentine's Day kindness activities.

What does this unit cover?

Various thought-provoking social skills lessons, classroom discussions, community-building ideas, and engaging SEL kindness activities.

Lesson 1: What is Kindness?

Teaches kids to understand what kindness is and describe what it means to be a kind kid.

Lesson 2: Being Kind to Others

Teaches children to describe and demonstrate how to be kind to others. They will make efforts to show kindness to others each day.

Lesson 3: Generosity & Giving

Teaches children to describe what generosity and giving means and demonstrate ways of being generous.

Lesson 4: Kindness Challenge

Teaches children to understand what random acts of kindness are and perform as many acts as they can during a kindness challenge.

Lesson 5: Bucket Filler System

It teaches children to understand the bucket-filling system and make an effort to be bucket fillers who help fill other people’s buckets.

Activities included in the Kindness unit:

• Discussion Starters cards
• Anchor Chart pieces
• Kindness Coloring Pages
• Board game
• Literature connections & writing activities
• Storybook
• Sorting activity
• Random Acts of Kindness Calendar Challenge
• Donut craftivity
• Kindness Door Decoration & bulletin board
• Kindness roleplay scenarios
• SMILE-a-gram kindness cards
• Kindness scavenger hunt
• Buckets for filler system
• Bucket filler hat
• Bucket filler vs. dipper sentence sort
• & more!

PLUS A BRAND NEW BONUS: Family Partnership Guide

Connect with and encourage families to take part in the social-emotional learning development of their child and the concepts you are teaching at school. Each unit includes a printable guide with a letter to families, strategies and activities they can try at home, and a book guide with video links.

WHY this is the ONE Social-Emotional Learning resource you need to teach kids about kindness!

1. Each lesson and follow-up activities can extend to cover your SEL time for a month! This is a flexible SEL curriculum that can be taught when teachers have time, while the recommendation is to teach a lesson once a week and extend it throughout the week with the follow-up activities.
2. You will have what you need to facilitate meaningful discussions and impactful activities that build important social and emotional skills and grow your classroom community.
3. You will save time as the planning is done for you.
4. Since this is research-based and follows the CASEL framework for SEL, you know that you are covering the most important lessons kids need!
5. It provides a TON of variety and includes activities that will engage students and help them build important emotional awareness skills.
6. The lessons and activities work great for morning classroom meetings or end of the day lessons, for school counselors, classroom teachers, and in a homeschool setting.

TEACHERS LIKE YOU SAID...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Kelsie W. says, "This resource has been amazing for my classroom! A great way to teach kindness and build community in the classroom. I also love that it came with parent letters that I could send home. Thank you!"

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Megan H. says, "My students really enjoyed learning about being bucket fillers. It has become part of our everyday vocabulary and they are able to express their feelings to other students proficiently. We turned a few of the activities into games and the students were all so engaged and genuinely enjoyed learning about kindness, generosity, and bucket filling."

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Renee K. says, "These units have been such a wonderful resource for my class! My students love the mentor texts and activities included. Thank you!"

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Check out the other SEL units for K-2:

Emotions & Feelings

Self-Regulation & Self-Control

Growth Mindset

Relationships & Friendship

Empathy & Social Awareness

Kindness & Bucket Filling

Respect & Gratitude

Responsibility, Goal Setting, & Conflict Resolution

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