Build A Friend Activity

Help students think about qualities they value in a friend. They color a figure and add chosen words or their own ideas to describe those qualities.
Grades
Grades 1–3
Pages
4
File type
PDF
Preparation
Print ready

Updated May 13, 2022

Subject
Social Emotional Learning (SEL)
Topic
Friendship qualities, Friendship values
Resource types
Activities, Coloring Pages
Preparation
Print ready

Product description

From the author

In this activity, students will color a friend (a boy or girl) and then pick 8 qualities of friendship they like in friends and glue them onto the page. There are blank squares also for students to customize friend qualities. There are 21 written qualities but also 9 blank squares for students to add their own.

In the classroom

Teaching tips & learning objectives

Learning objectives

  • Identify and select personally meaningful qualities of friendship from a provided word bank.

  • Explain selected friendship qualities and optionally add a new quality in a blank square.

Teaching tips

  • Have students choose qualities for the eight spaces around a figure, using printed words and phrases or the blank squares.

  • Use the finished pages as discussion starters, comparing which qualities different students chose and why.

  • Offer both the boy and girl figure so each student can pick the version that represents them.

Skills covered

  • Vocabulary-based self-reflection — students read 21 friendship-quality words and phrases and select the eight that matter most to them personally.

  • Fine motor practice — students color, cut, and glue small word squares onto a template page.

  • Original idea generation — blank squares invite students to name a quality of friendship not already provided.

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Questions teachers ask about this resource

Are the friendship-quality words limited to the 21 provided, or can students add their own?

Both — 21 words and phrases are ready to cut out, and blank squares on the same pages let a student write in a quality that isn't already listed.

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Concepts & topics

Core concepts

  • Friendship qualities

  • Social-emotional vocabulary

  • Cut-and-paste craft

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