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.
Jane M. (verified owner) –
Great for the beginning of school! Thanks.
Allison S. (verified owner) –
Love love love!
Happiness in First Grade (verified owner) –
My students had fun with this activity.
cindy G. (verified owner) –
I think this is a great activity to do at the first of the year to help teach my expectations of how we treat each other.
Chillmom (verified owner) –
looking forward to doing this as a back to school “community building” activity
Orange Power (verified owner) –
They enjoyed this activity.
Multi-Level Learners (verified owner) –
I loved this for a spring bulletin board, and it was easy to differentiate for varying levels of ability.
Brittany C. (verified owner) –
Thank you for the great product! It was a great project to put in the hall and went along with our “Wonder” and kindness unit.
Lisa R. (verified owner) –
Great activity! Used this as a hallway display.
Logan M. (verified owner) –
This worked great as a craft for my Sunday school class.
renee D. (verified owner) –
Loved this activity!
Chelsea C. (verified owner) –
My 1st graders worked with the 4th graders on this project and they did a wonderful job! Thank you for the resource!
KARL M. (verified owner) –
So much fun to create! Looks awesome displayed! Thank you!
Jackie S. (verified owner) –
Looking forward to using this with my Kindness Wednesday activities.
Michelle Jocks (verified owner) –
One of my favorite “craftivities” from this year! Loved all of the writing and thinking required to do this. We’ve been “planting seeds of kindness” all around our school since doing this!
Stormi B. (verified owner) –
Thanks!
Jennifer R. (verified owner) –
Very helpful!
Victoria Scaturro (verified owner) –
Thanks!
Maegan Jones (verified owner) –
Great Resource!!
amber L. (verified owner) –
Great activity and a beautify bulletin board idea!
Jessica T. (verified owner) –
thank you
Erica D. (verified owner) –
Perfect
Victoria S. (verified owner) –
This was such a cute idea to get my students thinking about how they can be kind to others. I really appreciated the cut and paste feature for my kiddos who have difficulty copying, writing or even just coming up with their own ideas.
Kelsey M. (verified owner) –
My kids loved this!
Ericca D. (verified owner) –
Great product! The ideas page really came in handy when my students were having a hard time coming up with ideas on their own. Thank you!
Kellie B. (verified owner) –
This resource was great to incorporate into science as well as language arts and social emotional development.
Tammy B. (verified owner) –
This is a great resource! The students loved it!
Jennifer S. (verified owner) –
So excited to try this!
Emily Grundy (verified owner) –
I was able to use this activity with a wide range of students (1st-5th grade). Each loved it and were eager to report their acts of kindness. I adapted the leaves to copy the lined paper to the back of the leaf paper for my little ones to have an easier time writing neatly.
Ana G. (verified owner) –
Cute project goes right along with our school’s kindness campaign!
Wendy Fadness (verified owner) –
I looked for something like this because my kids need some encouragement on how to be kind!
Dorothy Stark (verified owner) –
Great job on this! My students loved it! They like spreading seeds of kindness!
Lisa R. (verified owner) –
I was looking for a new idea, because quite frankly I was getting tired of “How to Fill A Bucket”! Love the activities, loved the book suggested, loved the whole thing!