Being a friend activities

Help preschoolers learn about friendship and sharing with this fun activity inspired by Should I Share My Ice Cream? Perfect for a preschool class activity on friendship & sharing, a playdate, or even for siblings who are learning to share. So easy to set up and super fun!

This free printable book about how to be a good friend is perfect way to get your kiddos thinking about what it means to be a good friend and have friends!

Finding great team building activities can be challenging. This friendship wheel is a great way for children to collaborate and learn about each other as they create a beautiful friendship wheel.

Teach your students how to find a friend and be a friend. Read more for tips and ideas and a resource packed with friendship activities, friendship worksheets that teach explicit skills, games, and a friendship lapbook! #friendshipactivities

Looking to foster relationships among your students during back to school? This blog post is filled with fun Getting to Know You activities for kids! From icebreakers to games, get creative ideas to promote friendship and community in the classroom. Perfect for kindergarten, first grade, or 2nd grade, these activities encourage communication through making friendship bracelets. Explore these free back to school activities for exciting ways to build connections.

Use our Free Friendship Unit in your classroom to teach students the characteristics of a good friend and how to make the right choices at school and at home when it comes to navigating and maintaining friendships. This free friendship unit is perfect for back to school time or a refresher anytime during the school

It's important to teach your elementary students about building and maintaining friendships, but it's equally important to teach kids about what healthy friendships look like, and how to set boundaries. Learn more in this post about what resources, activities, and mentor texts I use to teach my students these important lessons on friendship.

Help kids learn about different kinds of friendships with this Bullseye Friendship Printable which lets them evaluate the relationships in their life. This is a perfect hands-on activity for kids! Check out Coffee and Carpool to grab this free Friendship Printable for your kids now!

Teach your students how to be a good friend with the book Scaredy Squirrel Makes a Friend and this FREEBIE (anchor chart and class book)!

Looking for some activities for your kids to do to be kind to others? Maybe your kids haven't been as nice as they could be. This guide has twenty-one different ideas that your kids or students from all ages can do together!

Whether it's the beginning of the school year or anytime in the middle--this is one of my favorite activities to do with students. As much as school is about reading, writing, math, science, social studies, PE, art, music, and all the subjects--it's even more about the relationships that students build with their peers. No classroom is perfect because we are all learning! We start off with FRIENDSHIP TOWERS. At first I have some building blocks (you can use Jenga blocks, unifix cubes, really…

This toddler friendship activity is easy and fun to make and is a simple reminder that we are all friends in our classroom. Free printable!

Help kids figure out who their great, true, real friends are with this friendship checklist they can use to decide for themselves.

This toddler friendship activity is easy and fun to make and is a simple reminder that we are all friends in our classroom. Free printable!

Encourage the class to make new friends and help them celebrate their friendships with the crafts listed below. These crafts are preschool-friendly, and children can play with them with their friends or give them as keepsakes.

Friendship in a cup is the perfect back to school snack to make with your students. You can use the mini book provided and/or original poem to learn about the qualities of a good friend and to follow the directions to make this yummy snack. While you make it, you can read directions, work on teamwork and end up with something delicious. Your students can also predict, survey, graph, sequence and do a little math with their data. This would be great on the first day of school.

Are you looking to help your children identify ways of being a good friend? 🫶🏻 👧🏻 Use this print and go friendship activity for preschoolers to get your children thinking about what it looks like to be a good friend. These friendship clip-cards are a perfect companion to your Unit on Friendship. 🤗

A collection of friendship activities, stories, and songs that build confidence in making friends.

This friend activity for kids looks at what children want in their friends. This activity is designed to support friendship skills and can be used in a variety of ways. You could ask your child to draw how they feel, or use the vocabulary provided to choose their favourite qualities. What do you want in a friend? #FriendActivityforKids #FriendActivity