Table Time Activity: Appreciation Box
Make an appreciation box! When something good or kind happens in your life, write it down on a piece of paper along with how it made you feel and put it into the box. An appreciation box can help your child appreciate kind moments in their life and help them reflect on their feelings when they happen.
Skill Check
The goal of this week is to take a moment to appreciate the good and kind moments in your day-to-day life.
Growing My Skills
Discuss with your child the ways people have been kind to them recently and how that makes them feel.
Floortime Play Activity: Sharing is Caring!
Sharing can be easier for some children to practice if it’s happening between others, like two stuffed animals. Give the first stuffed animal the first object, then the other stuffed animal gets the next. Then, have your child do the same, splitting the objects fairly between the two animals.
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is to practice sharing.
Growing My Skills
Talk to your child about how the stuffed animals are sharing nicely and fairly with each other.
Relaxation Time Activity: Relaxing Reads
Skill Check
The goal this week is to learn more about being kind.
Growing My Skills
Read the book together.
Talk with your child about ways they can be kind in their day-to-day lives.
Creative Time Activity: Kindness Coloring Page
Skill Check
The goal of this activity is for your child to think about being kind while building shape identification skills.
Growing My Skills
Print out the Always Be Kind coloring page.
Have your child color it in!
Discuss what shapes they’re coloring in the background.
Movement Time Activity: Kindness Song and Dance
Make up a song about kindness and inclusion with your child, including lyrics and silly dance moves to match. The song can be pretty simple (“When am I kind? I’m kind when I…”).
Skill Check
The goal this week is to be creative while moving your body!
Growing My Skills
Come up with some additional dance moves that relate to the song and have your child imitate you.
Language Time Activity: Sesame Street Inclusion
Skill Check
The goal this week is to learn what ‘include’ means.
Growing My Skills
Discuss with your child how they have been included or helped to include someone someone else recently.
