Elementary Activities
Free activities and resources designed for younger students. The goal is to creatively engage them through conversation, activities, art and music to build their understanding of how to handle bullying situations.
Featuring the “Club Crew” from Kids Against Bullying website
An activity to meet the CLUB CREW and think about how they respond to bullying situations.
Kids Against Bullying Classroom Activity Book
An eight-page classroom activity book designed with educational activities featuring the Club Crew from the Kids Against Bullying website. It engages young learners in creative ways, providing activities to help students think about their feelings, explore responses to bullying situations, and take the pledge to be a Kid Against Bullying.
Looking for a creative way to have a conversation about bullying with young learners?
PACER’s coloring book gives teachers and students a great opportunity to talk about bullying while engaging in an activity. Each page includes an important message about respecting others, being kind, and including others. Download these pages and discover how kids, crayons and conversation can help prevent bullying.
Kindness Catcher
Print, practice and share this interactive conversation starter as a fun way to get ideas for being kind to others.
Learn the steps to fold at wikiHow.com – How to Fold a Fortune Teller
Encourage students to take the “Kids Against Bullying” pledge. Options include pledging online, signing a bookmark with the pledge, or adding their name to a sign up sheet. Then show everyone who signs that their commitment matters with a custom certificate or decal.
Featuring Books, Videos, and Music
Share the book (and video) “Spookley the Square Pumpkin” in the classroom. Spookley is a square pumpkin who lives in a round pumpkin world. The story beautifully delivers a message of kindness and acceptance in a fun, accessible format that is easily grasped by young students.
An activity designed with hypothetical bullying scenarios (that are based on real events), which students can use to think through responses and solutions
A series of educational videos designed for kindergarten through third grade students, featuring characters from PACER’s Kids Against Bullying puppet program. These episodes highlight key concepts of bullying prevention and promote social-emotional learning. With a new episode every month, these videos will support good discussions around kindness, acceptance of difference, and inclusion.
Watch these four animated videos which creatively illustrate what it feels like to be bullied, what students can do if they see bullying, and how to be an advocate against bullying. Then hold a classroom discussion using the suggested questions.
Unite through music and movement to raise awareness for bullying prevention by organizing a Unity Dance. The toolkit includes the designated song for the dance, lyrics, choreographed dance moves, and much more.
Featuring Art and Activities to Educate
Share this handout (can also be displayed as a mini-poster) which provides younger students with helpful information about how to tell an adult if they see bullying or are being bullied.
Display these posters in the classroom, hallway, or office as a reminder that actions have impact. Order ($10 per set, $5 for each additional set), download, print, or share the 5-poster series. These 18″ x 24″ posters are available in English and Spanish.
Share your story, poetry, or artwork on the topic of bullying. Submissions can be about topics such as: What is bullying? How does bullying make me feel? What can I do to prevent bullying? You can use pencils, markers, paint, crayons, or other art mediums.
Imagine what can happen when every person in your school or community takes one positive step to help prevent bullying. Those acts all add up and help make the world a better place for everyone. This activity shows just how powerful we are when united for a common goal.
Get creative with this interactive and hands-on classroom activity. This is a shared experience in which each person contributes a leaf to create the tree. As the number of leaves increases, it creates a visual reminder, demonstrating that when we are united we can create social change.
Create a powerful visual statement about uniting for kindness, acceptance and inclusion. Each student writes a message on an orange strip of construction paper. The strips are then connected to illustrate the power of uniting for a common cause.
Engage students to creatively understand the impact of bullying. “A Wrinkled Heart” activity provides students with a powerful visual that shows the effects hurtful words or behaviors have on someone. The activity is simple and a great reminder to be kind to others.
Help students understand the concept of above the line versus below the line behaviors and make a commitment to promoting above the line behaviors at their school.
