Helping and Giving Charts, Activities, and Class Projects

Description

Teach your students how to give and help using these fun and developmentally appropriate activities. Guide your students to develop the life skills of helping and giving, and build empathy for others. This unit is perfect to do anytime during the year or during the holidays.

Teaching social skills and how to interact with others (aka character education) is a life skill and takes direct teaching for little learners. It takes lots of practice and visual supports. These activities will help you build a caring community of learners who will support each other all year long. These activities are designed for preschool, pre-k, kindergarten, or first grade.

Unit updated August 2025

Included:

• General Tips and how to Utilize Class Meetings

• Helping and Giving Book List

• Helping Anchor Chart or Sorting Activity (sorting chart headers helping at home/school, helping others, helping our world plus 51 cards)

o Example cards: Helping at Home/School – sweep, take out the trash, feed the pet Helping Others: open and hold the door, take care of someone when they are sick, make things for others, donate food Helping our World: turn off the lights, recycle, feed the birds

• Helping Jar Activity, Posters, and Celebration Choice Posters

• Get Well Soon Card Making Center or Station (cards and writing paper with and without lines)

• Bird Feeder Activity

• Litter Walk Recording Pages (two options)

• Home Litter Walk Notes

• Collection for Pet Shelters: A Service Learning Project (signs and notes home in color and blackline)

• Printing Tips

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