= Partner SiteKindness and Empathy Worksheets
Looking for kindness worksheets? These printable activities help students explore empathy, compassion, and positive social behaviors through engaging exercises. From identifying kind actions to reflecting on how they can make a difference, each worksheet supports social-emotional learning in meaningful, age-appropriate ways.
Kindness is a skill that can be taught and practiced. These worksheets give students opportunities to recognize kind behaviors, think through real-world scenarios, and express their own ideas about being a good friend and community member—through matching activities, writing prompts, word searches, and creative drawing.
Printable Kindness and Empathy Worksheets
Acts of Kindness SEL Worksheet
Being a Good Friend SEL Activity
Design a Poster
Kindness makes the world a better place! Students create a kindness poster to remind others how important it is to be kind. Add words, pictures, and lots of color!
Kind or Not
Students cut out the pictures, and sort and paste them into the “Kind” category or the “Not Kind” category.
Making Kind Choices
Students read each situation, circle the smiley face if it is a kind choice or the frowning face if it is not a kind choice.
Kindness Matching Activity
Students cut out the pictures, and sort and paste them into the “Kind” category or the “Not Kind” category.
Sentence Fix Up
These sentences need fixing! They are missing capital letters and punctuation. Students rewrite them correctly on the line below.
Story Comprehension
Students read the short story and then answer the comprehension questions.
What Would You Do?
Students read each situation and think about how they could show kindness. They write a sentence or two to explain what they would do.
Kindness Word Search
Students find and circle the kindness words hidden in the word search. Words can be found across and down- and sometimes the words overlap!
ABCs Letter Matching
Students look at the kindness words, imagine each word is like a seed that needs to be planted in the right order. They write the words in ABC order on the lines provided to organize their kindness garden!
Kindness Fill in the Blank Activity
Students read each sentence and choose the best word from the word bank to complete it. They write the word on the blank line.
Kindness Word Scramble
The kindness words are scrambled up! Students rearrange the letters to form a real word that represents kindness. They write that word in the empty space next to the scrambled letters.
I Can Grow Kindness Writing Prompt
Students think about ways they can plant seeds of kindness in their lives. They write at least three sentences about how they can grow kindness at home, at school, or in their community.
Draw Someone Kind
Think about someone who is kind. It could be a friend, a family member, or a teacher. Students draw a picture of them and tell how they show kindness!
How Would You Show Kindness?
Students think about a way they can be kind to someone. They draw a picture of themselves showing kindness to someone else.
I can be Kind
Students complete the sentences by writing or drawing how they can be kind and then, draw a picture of themselves being kind!
Kindness Around Me
Each student looks for acts of kindness around them! When they see one, they check the box.
Kindness Begins with Me
Students think about ways they can be kind to others and then answer the questions below and complete the sentences.
Kind or Not?
Students look at the pictures of different actions and draw a smiley face on the line next to the action if it is kind. If it is not kind, they draw a frowning face.
Ki is for Kindness
K is for Kindness! Students trace the letter K, then practice writing it on their own, and then circle the kind actions and cross out the unkind actions.
Kindness ABCs
Kindness starts with our words and actions! Kindergarteners match each letter to a kindness word.
Kindness Rhyming Words
Let’s practice rhyming! Students circle the word next to each kindness cloud that rhymes with the word in the cloud.
Story Sequencing
Students read the short story and look at the pictures, and then carefully cut out the pictures and glue them in the correct order.
Using Kind Words
Kind words can make someone’s day better! Your students will write four kind messages to different people. They can write to a family member, a friend, a teacher, or even someone they don’t usually talk to!
Kindness Word Search
Students find and circle the kindness words hidden in the puzzle below and then pick one word and use it in a sentence.
Kindness SEL Drawing Activity
Presentation Version
This presentation-ready version of the Self-Reflection task cards can be displayed on a screen for whole-class discussions or small-group SEL activities.
Task Cards (4 per page)
These self-reflection task cards feature prompts about strengths, happiness, learning from mistakes, and helping others—perfect for SEL centers, morning meetings, or journal starters.
