Kindergarten Kindness Activities
These Kindergarten Kindness worksheets help young learners build early literacy skills while exploring the importance of kindness. Students will practice letter recognition, sorting, matching, writing, and storytelling as they learn about kind and unkind actions.
Activities include identifying and circling kind behaviors, drawing and writing about acts of kindness, and recognizing rhyming words related to kindness. Exercises like “Kindness Around Me” encourage students to observe kindness in their daily lives, while “Using Kind Words” helps them practice expressing kindness through writing. These printable worksheets offer a simple way to reinforce both social-emotional learning and early reading skills.
Printable Kindergarten Kindness Activities
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!
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!
Students think about a way they can be kind to someone. They draw a picture of themselves showing kindness to someone else.
Students complete the sentences by writing or drawing how they can be kind and then, draw a picture of themselves being kind!
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.
Each student looks for acts of kindness around them! When they see one, they check the box.
Students think about ways they can be kind to others and then answer the questions below and complete the sentences.
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 starts with our words and actions! Kindergarteners match each letter to a kindness word.
Let’s practice rhyming! Students circle the word next to each kindness cloud that rhymes with the word in the cloud.
Students read the short story and look at the pictures, and then carefully cut out the pictures and glue them in the correct order.
Students find and circle the kindness words hidden in the puzzle below and then pick one word and use it in a sentence.
Tips for Using the Kindergarten Kindness Worksheets
- Start with a Discussion – Before using the worksheets, talk with students about what kindness means. Read a short story about kindness or share examples from real life to help them understand the concept.
- Use the “K is for Kindness” Worksheet as a Letter K Lesson – Incorporate this activity into letter recognition practice by having students say the /k/ sound aloud and brainstorm other words that start with K.
- Act It Out – For worksheets like “Kind or Not?”, have students role-play different scenarios before completing the activity. This makes the lesson more interactive and helps reinforce understanding.
- Encourage Self-Reflection – Worksheets like “How Would You Show Kindness?” and “Kindness Begins with Me” are great for helping students think about their own actions. Ask them to share their answers with a partner or in a group discussion.
- Pair Drawing Activities with Storytelling – When using “Draw Someone Kind”, encourage students to explain their drawings. Ask guiding questions like, “What does this person do that is kind?” to help them articulate their ideas.
- Make It a Classroom Challenge – Use the “Kindness Around Me” checklist as a week-long challenge. Encourage students to look for acts of kindness at home and school, then discuss what they noticed at the end of the week.
- Incorporate Writing Practice – Worksheets like “Using Kind Words” and “Kindness Word Search” build early literacy skills. For extra practice, have students use the kindness words they found in a short sentence.
- Turn Sequencing into a Hands-On Activity – For “Kindness Story Sequencing”, cut out the pictures ahead of time and let students physically arrange them before gluing. This helps reinforce the concept of story order.
- Celebrate Kindness – Display students’ work around the classroom or create a “Kindness Wall” where they can post their drawings and writing about kindness.
- Extend the Learning – Read books about kindness, such as Have You Filled a Bucket Today? by Carol McCloud, and connect them to the worksheets for deeper discussions.