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    Christmas Kindness

    Teaching about kindness and acceptance is always time well spent, especially at Christmas. Here’s a fun and FREE activity to share with your class!

    My most popular Christmas Santa craft idea EVER! Students trim a bit off Santa's beard each time they complete the act of kindness listed. Download and print, or add your OWN kindness ideas on the editable template! This is a free download from Whimsy Workshop Teaching.com.png

    Santa’s long beard is filled with acts of kindness for children to complete. The tasks are simple, such as “Smile at as many people as you can today” or “Give a compliment”.

    Students trim each task off of Santa’s beard as the task is completed! This makes for wonderful discussions as students share their experience and feelings after spreading kindness.

    You may wish to keep a journal about them, or create a class book to remember the details from students.

    EDITABLE SANTA

    In order to make this craft more flexible, I’ve added an editable version! Now you can add kindness tasks that are specific to your situation, which makes them so much more engaging!

    This version is a PowerPoint file, which means you will have to download it and open it in PowerPoint for it to be editable. You will NOT need any extra editing permissions from me to use it.

    The printable download is free! Just click one of the blue boxes below and the file will be sent to you by email. 


    Need More Ideas For Christmas?

     You can explore Christmas and Winter Celebrations Around The World, with lots of literacy and adorable art projects by clicking HERE.

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    Five Ideas for Teaching Kindness

    Check out the five SEL programs below. Each one is it’s own comprehensive program with hundreds of lessons to teach social skills in a fun and engaging way! Just choose the one that is the best fit for your students and start creating a peaceful classroom – all the work is done for you!

     1. Social Skills Monsters SEL Program

    This is a comprehensive 16-week program with over 80 lessons to complement the 16 printable books included! CLICK HERE to see more pictures from the program!

    social skills monster books and lessons
    monsters have manners lessons

    2. Kindness Classroom SEL Curriculum

    This program includes 100’s of SEL lessons including writing, art, partner plays, interactive whole group lessons, mini-books, 8 printable stories, and more. There are teacher scripts to introduce each lessons – all the work is done for you! Click HERE to see more pictures of the Kindness Classroom in action!

    social skills lessons kindness classroom

    3. Teach Social Skills With Poetry

    This is a big collection of songs, chants and poems that focus on social skills and classroom routines. Each lesson has teaching tips, a color poster, and lots of writing, sorting and reading activites to reinforce concepts. Click HERE to see more information about Social Skills Poetry!

    teaching social skills with poetry

    4. Daily Morning Meetings for Social Skills

    Start each day with a fun social skills activity! Each one of these short group lessons can be either projected for your whole group lesson, or printed out for a writing project. There are five lessons each week, for 200 lessons in all. Click HERE to see more information about Social Skills Morning Meetings!

    5. Teaching Social Skills with Social Stories

    Teaching social skills with social stories is a more explicit and direct way to talk about social skills and classroom expectations. Each of the 32 units includes a poster, a printable stories, partner plays, teacher scripts, printing and journal pages, art projects, incentive coupons and more.

    Click HERE to see more about teaching with social stories, partner plays, writing ideas and more!

    teaching SEL with social stories

    Free Download – Santa’s Kindness Beard!

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    3 Comments

    1. Barbara

      November 29, 2014 at 7:00 pm

      Oh, Susanna … this is brilliant! I've just shared it on my What's Under Your Cape? FB page! Thanks much.

      Barbara

    2. Whimsy Workshop Teaching

      December 12, 2014 at 1:48 pm

      Thank you SO much Barbara! I appreciate that! xo

    3. Maria Gilles

      November 28, 2015 at 8:14 am

      This is great! Thank you SO much for sharing your wonderful ideas and creations with us!

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