Help elementary students explore kindness, caring, empathy, and inclusion with this engaging Teaching Kindness and Caring Social Skills Game Set 1! This digital and printable resource provides hands-on opportunities to recognize kind and unkind choices, consider how actions affect others, and practice positive social interactions.

With 64 scenario cards, a board game, kind and unkind sorting mats, kindness bingo, and reflection dice, students can explore everyday social situations through games, discussion, and interactive activities. Rather than simply labeling choices as right or wrong, students can discuss the impact of different actions and consider ways to show care, respect, and understanding.

Part of the Social Skills Treasury collection, this resource is designed for individual counseling, small-group counseling, classroom SEL lessons, and social skills instruction. It also includes visual supports, S.M.A.R.T. IEP objectives, a data collection sheet, and an editable family letter to help reinforce learning.

📦 What's Included:

🎲 Kindness & Caring Board Game

• Digital and printable board game
• Game board with spinner, pawns, and dice
• Interactive opportunities to discuss kindness, caring, and social choices
• Great for individual counseling, small groups, and classroom SEL lessons

🃏 64 Kindness Scenario Cards

• 64 scenario cards in digital and printable formats
• Everyday social situations involving kind and unkind choices
• Opportunities to consider how actions may affect other people
• Discussion prompts for exploring empathy, inclusion, and caring behaviors

❤️ Kind & Unkind Choices Sorting Mats

• Sorting mats for identifying kind and unkind choices
• Can be paired with the scenario cards for hands-on practice
• Opportunities to discuss why a choice might be helpful or hurtful
• Encourages students to think about alternative ways to respond

🌟 Kindness Bingo

• Kindness Bingo sheet for reinforcing caring and considerate choices in between lessons
• An additional game-based way to review kindness concepts

🎲 Reflection Question Dice

• Printable dice with reflection questions
• Prompts to encourage students to think about kindness and caring
• Can be used with the board game or as a separate discussion activity

🖼️ Visual Posters & Learning Supports

• "I Can" learning statements poster
• Playing a Game visual poster
• Visual reminders to support learning and participation

📝 Teaching, Planning & Family Resources

• S.M.A.R.T. IEP and treatment plan objectives for easier goal writing
• Data collection sheet for monitoring progress
• Editable letter to families about kindness and caring
• Caught Being Kind notes home
• Suggested companion resources
• Ideas to extend and practice the concepts
• Color and black-and-white resource versions

🎒 Quick Details: Elementary students | 🃏 64 scenario cards | 🎲 Digital + printable board game | ❤️ Kind vs. unkind sorting mats | 🌟 Kindness Bingo | 🎲 Reflection dice | 🖼️ Visual posters | 📝 IEP goals + data sheet | 💻 Digital + print

🛍️ Bundle & Save:

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💛 Kindness, Caring and Empathy Bundle

• Includes all three Teaching Kindness and Caring Social Skills Treasury sets
• Set 1 includes 64 scenario cards, a board game, sorting mats, kindness bingo, and reflection dice
• Set 2 includes an 8-page social story, 24 discussion cards, a board game, and 25 worksheets and coloring pages
• Set 3 includes a kindness story, writing activities, graphic organizers, a 6-page kindness flipbook, and self-reflection activities
• Provides multiple ways to introduce, practice, and reinforce kindness, empathy, and inclusion

🌟 Social Skills Treasury Growing Bundle

• A growing collection of social skills activities for elementary students
• Includes games, scenario cards, social stories, worksheets, and other interactive activities
• Addresses a variety of social-emotional learning skills, including kindness, flexible thinking, grit, justice sensitivity, sportsmanship, empathy, perspective-taking, self-control, and more

🎯 Skills Addressed:

✔️ Recognizing kind and unkind choices

✔️ Developing kindness, caring, and empathy

✔️ Understanding how actions affect other people

✔️ Practicing inclusion and respect for others

✔️ Considering different perspectives in social situations

✔️ Building positive peer relationships

✔️ Developing social awareness and thoughtful decision-making

💡 Ways to Use It:

• Play the kindness board game during individual counseling sessions to introduce and reinforce caring choices
• Use the 64 scenario cards to explore everyday social situations and discuss how different actions might affect others
• Pair the scenario cards with the kind and unkind sorting mats for hands-on social skills practice
• Incorporate Kindness Bingo into classroom SEL lessons, morning meetings, or small-group counseling
• Roll the reflection question dice to encourage conversations about empathy, inclusion, and caring for others
• Use the Caught Being Kind notes home to recognize specific acts of kindness and strengthen home-school communication
• Use the included IEP objectives, data collection sheet, and editable family letter to support consistent instruction and progress monitoring

👩‍🏫 Who It's For:

Perfect for school counselors, school social workers, school psychologists, child therapists, speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, special education teachers, classroom teachers, and homeschool educators working with elementary students.

This resource is especially useful for professionals supporting students with kindness, empathy, inclusion, positive peer relationships, and thoughtful social choices.

🖨️ Format & Download:

✔️ Digital and printable board game with spinner, pawns, and dice

✔️ 64 scenario cards in digital and printable formats

✔️ Kind and unkind choices sorting mats

✔️ Kindness Bingo activity

✔️ Printable reflection question dice

✔️ "I Can" learning statements and Playing a Game visual posters

✔️ S.M.A.R.T. IEP objectives, data collection sheet, and editable family letter

✔️ Caught Being Kind notes home

✔️ Color and black-and-white resources

✔️ ZIP download containing PDF, Google Slides, and PowerPoint resources

📌 Important Notes:

• When exploring kind and unkind choices, consider the context of each situation, including students' communication styles, abilities, intentions, and support needs. The goal is to help students develop empathy and understand the impact of their actions, rather than require everyone to interact in the same way
• This is a digital download. No physical product will be shipped. Due to the digital nature of this resource, all sales are final and refunds are not available