Help your students discover that kindness can be taught, practiced, and grown with this engaging Seeds of Kindness resource. This social-emotional learning activity gives students meaningful opportunities to brainstorm acts of kindness, select kind actions they want to complete over time, and reflect on how their choices impact others.
With a combination of discussion, writing, and a creative craftivity, this resource makes it easy to build classroom community while reinforcing positive behavior. It also creates a meaningful bulletin board display to celebrate students’ ideas and actions.
What’s Included
- Suggested sequence of instruction
- Suggested read-aloud
- Ideas for acts of kindness at:
- school
- home
- in the community
- Kindness brainstorming sheet
- Reflection sheet
- Craftivity pages in two font choices
Skills Covered
- Social-emotional learning
- Kindness and empathy
- Reflection and self-awareness
- Community building
- Decision-making
- Writing and brainstorming
Ways to Use This Resource
- Kindness lessons
- SEL activities
- Character education units
- Bulletin board displays
- Morning meeting discussions
- Classroom community building
- Service learning discussions
- School counseling activities
Why Teachers Love It
Teachers appreciate this resource because it combines SEL, writing, and creativity in a way that feels meaningful and age-appropriate. Students are encouraged not only to talk about kindness, but also to plan, practice, and reflect on it. The included craftivity adds a fun visual element and helps create an engaging display for the classroom or hallway.
Important Details
All pages print on 8.5 x 11 paper.
If you are looking for a thoughtful kindness activity, SEL craft, or character education resource that helps students practice kindness in real and meaningful ways, this Seeds of Kindness pack is a great addition to your classroom. It supports positive classroom culture while giving students tools to reflect on how their actions can make a difference.
Learning with Ms. London (verified owner) –
Used this for our school kindness club before schools closed. It was very helpful and the students enjoyed it!
Margareta H. (verified owner) –
Very cute
Renee Hooper (verified owner) –
My students loved it!
Jamie L. (verified owner) –
great supplemental resource for a beginning-of-the-year book,
If You Plant a Seed, I always read to the kids
Amy D. (verified owner) –
So much fun to put together. The kids had a blast!
Ashley S. (verified owner) –
This was a great follow-up to a Kindness Retreat we attended!
Sian R. (verified owner) –
Perfect and easy for me and my kids to use we linked this with our PBIS units
Christie B. (verified owner) –
I actually used this for a middle school bulletin board for “Blooming with Kindness”. Seeds at the bottom and blooms at the top. It was perfect!
Maureen T. (verified owner) –
Thank you Good product
Nicolette S. (verified owner) –
Cute!
Rebecca H. (verified owner) –
Can’t wait to do this!
Heather C. (verified owner) –
My students and I enjoyed this activity! Thanks!
Barbara D. (verified owner) –
Worked well
Finds for Growing Minds (verified owner) –
Great resource! Thank you!
Amanda Lattimer (verified owner) –
Used with our LIM program! Loved.
Suzanne L. (verified owner) –
I am not sure how I am going to incorporate this yet, but I love how it looks!
Pick a Peck (verified owner) –
I absolutely LOVED using this resource with my students. They need to think about how they can be kind.
D Richardson (verified owner) –
I love this product and so did my students!
The Third Grade Way (verified owner) –
Perfect for my class theme!
My Teacher Mrs Thrasher (verified owner) –
Such a great resource! Thanks
Kelley W. (verified owner) –
Loved the topic!
Melissa J. (verified owner) –
Thumbs up!
Lizie M. (verified owner) –
Love this resource!
Colleen M. (verified owner) –
Worked great to practice more kindness in the classroom, and was beautiful to hang up 🙂
Yvonne R. (verified owner) –
This is a super cute and full of interesting ideas to do. Specifically geared towards kindness.
Hattie Williams (verified owner) –
Thanks
Andrea G. (verified owner) –
This was a great activity!
Emily L. (verified owner) –
Awesome product for reinforcing kindness in the our classroom!
Melissa T. (verified owner) –
Love this! My class is having great discussions about what it means to be kind. Thank you!!!
Chrissy S. (verified owner) –
Great activity!
Heather Devlin (verified owner) –
Thank you!
Melissa N. (verified owner) –
I love this activity. It went great with our plant unit.
Lynette Bullen (verified owner) –
Thanks
Kristin G. (verified owner) –
I really enjoyed using this material.
Alicia F. (verified owner) –
I’m going to use this activity in my K-1 class after reading If you Plant a Seed by Kadir Nelson. it’s the perfect spring activity! Thank you for creating and sharing this wonderful resource!
McCaulley Longwell (verified owner) –
I think this will be great to go outside on my bulletin for my unit on plants.
TRACY H. (verified owner) –
This is a darling activity that coordinates well with my first grade unit on plants and animals. Thank you!
Alicia Couden (verified owner) –
Thank you!
Julie T. (verified owner) –
Perfect for our kindness activity!
Marcy S. (verified owner) –
I will use this for my PBIS time when I do my plant unit.
Mary Y. (verified owner) –
Very user friendly. My students loved coming up with their own ideas for acts of kindness.
Melissa T. (verified owner) –
Great resource!
THE ADVENTURES OF KINDERGARTEN (verified owner) –
Super cute!
Joni H. (verified owner) –
Such a cute project to display, and it helped us focus on ways to show kindness.
Linda Auciello (verified owner) –
Awesome product!!!!!
Michelle M. (verified owner) –
fun project to do with students
Teresa G. (verified owner) –
This looks great! I cannot wait to use it with my class.
Jamie A. (verified owner) –
Kids enjoyed this kindness activity
Kay S. (verified owner) –
Used for back to school activity. Good work.
holly S. (verified owner) –
This had a great teaching resource with it and was very understandable and adaptable to my religion unit too. Plus, it makes a great hall display!