Teach Kindness in Your

Classroom

Teach kindness in your classroom. Our world needs it now more than
ever.
Just as you plan for teaching literacy or math, plan for teaching kindness.
Not just on one day. Not for one week. Integrate kindness into your
curriculum through important discussions, engaging books, and
meaningful activities all year long.
We’ve got some great resources to help you create a culture of kindness
in your classroom – and through the ripple effect, spread kindness into
your community and our world!

World Kindness Day is observed annually, this year falling on November 13th. Our
beautiful resources for teaching kindness  will have you and your class feeling all the warm
fuzzies in preparation for this lovely international occasion!
As educators, it’s up to us to inspire kindness in our young students. We already do this,
incidentally, on a daily basis; helping kids negotiate, guiding their social interactions,
troubleshooting friendship issues, and modeling empathy and compassion ourselves.

World Kindness Day is a designated day to pause and

consciously reflect on times when we have been shown
kindness, and think about ways in which we can treat
others kindly.
 Kindness Rocks!

Teach your kids that kindness rocks! This gorgeous activity uses rocks to teach kids how to spread
kindness. Read more about teaching kindness one rock at a time.
 Encouraging Random Acts of Kindness
Sometimes the loveliest acts of kindness come completely unexpectedly.
 Reward Kindness
No matter how (seemingly) small, children’s acts of kindness deserve our recognition. Whether it’s a
verbal build-up or a tangible reward, like one of our gorgeous certificates, children love receiving
acknowledgement.
 Kindness- Filled Compliments Box

We all know how wonderful it feels to receive an unexpected compliment. A compliment is like a little
gift that puts a spring in your step for the rest of the day. Why not encourage your students to give
each other some build ups, and get that good energy flowing through your school?
 Kindness Chatterbox

Kids love making chatterboxes! Our free downloadable chatterbox template allows students to write
kind acts they wish to complete on the inside of their chatterbox!
Invite students to write notes to school staff at an appreciation
station.
It doesn’t take much to lift someone up—a few kind words can change everything. Set up an
appreciation station in the school cafeteria or lobby where students can drop by to write notes. Then,
collect and distribute notes to staff members during Teacher Appreciation Week, National Custodian
Day, Principal Appreciation Day, School Secretary Appreciation Day, and School Bus Driver
Appreciation Day—and let’s not forget the lunch monitors, either.
 Links of Kindness

Start a schoolwide kindness paper chain and see how far it can reach throughout the school. To start, give
paper strips to teachers. When a student or teacher is the recipient of a random act of kindness, have them
write it on a strip of paper and add a link to their classroom chain. On the last day, staple classroom chains
together and string throughout the hallways.
Kindness in Chalk
 The Wrinkled Heart

This Wrinkled Heart exercise has been doing the rounds and we can see why – it’s so effective.

Print off a class set of paper hearts with the message:

Before you speak, think and be smart. It’s hard to fix a

wrinkled heart.
Each student receives a pristine heart. You may ask them to cut it out or shade it.

Then ask the students to crumple their heart up as tightly as they can. Ask them to unfold the heart
and make it flat again, just as it was when they received them.

When your students realise that the damage to the paper cannot be “undone”, this is the
demonstration that once words are said, the damage they cause to others may not be reversible.

This is a powerful lesson for children of all ages!

Each month the lessons focus on one skill of The Be Kind
Pledge which defines the skills of kindness and helps students understand
what TO do instead of what NOT to do.
This tree of kindness display is kind of hard to miss—but that’s
the point.
Given students hearts to write down acts of kindness they performed. Hold a kindness challenge and
tally up how many kind acts your school community performs.