NPBM Student Activity Kit

Throughout October, use this four-week activity kit in K-12 classrooms or other youth settings. The kit features theme weeks, classroom projects, and student engagement to promote kindness, acceptance, and inclusion to prevent bullying.

Organize the Materials

  • Provide everyone with a free student activity book; download and print, or share through another method of your choosing.
  • Create a bulletin board (see example ) or order posters to showcase the weekly themes and group projects.

Optional: Register your classroom or group as a “Champion against bullying”.

Engage youth each week with activities that support the weekly theme!

Learn how kindness, acceptance, and inclusion can help prevent bullying

Action Items:

Show the bullying prevention slideshow and provide the follow-up quizzes for elementary or middle and high school students.

Student Activity Book:

  • Provide an overview of National Bullying Prevention Month along with weekly themes. (Page 2)
  • Define unity, kindness, acceptance, and inclusion using words, art, or music. (Page 3)
  • Encourage youth to write down acts of kindness, acceptance, and inclusion that they see and where they see them happen. Note: This can be done throughout the month. (Page 4)

Classroom Poster or Bulletin Board:

As a group, define—using content from the page 3 exercise in the student activity book—unity, kindness, acceptance, and inclusion using words, art, or music.

Record ideas for wearing and sharing orange on Unity Day

Action Items:

Review the Unity Day Guide . Then, think through ideas for wearing and sharing orange, such as items to wear, group projects, art, and other activities.

Student Activity Book:

Encourage youth to think through and write down their ideas for participating in Unity Day. (Page 5) .

Classroom Poster or Bulletin Board:

As a group, record ideas—using content from the page 5 exercise in the student activity book—to GO ORANGE for Unity Day. As a group, decide which activities you’d like to implement for Unity Day (week 3).

Gather in-person or online on Unity Day to share your efforts and show your commitment

Action Items:

Engage in your planned activities from week two.Student Activity Book:
Complete one or more of the acrostic templates. (Page 6) .

Classroom Poster or Bulletin Board:

Invite everyone to add their own custom mark, such as an emoji, picture, thumbprint, or signature.

Determine ways to continue creating a kinder, more inclusive, and more accepting world all year

Action Items:

Ask students to share something they learned during National Bullying Prevention Month.

Student Activity Book:

Classroom Poster or Bulletin Board:

As a group, record ideas—using content from the page 7 exercise in the student activity book—for continuing bullying prevention efforts throughout the year.