Let’s Show Kindness — Prompt Cards

Choose one of the kindness prompts for a real situation: offering help, including someone or noticing what they enjoy. Adapt ideas to children’s choices and boundaries.

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What Makes a Good Friend? — Mark Making

Use the open drawing and writing frames after a story, shared experience or conversation. Accept different ideas about friendship and belonging.

Acts of Kindness — Drawing & Writing

An open sheet for representing a kind deed noticed, imagined or experienced. Drawing, talk and adult scribing are as welcome as independent writing.

Basic Emotions Fan

Offer a small choice of feeling pictures during a familiar conversation. Children can point, gesture, speak or choose not to share; noticing another person’s feelings begins with listening, not guessing a correct answer.

Why Is Teddy Happy? Activity Pack

Use Teddy as a shared focus for talking about happiness, caring and friendship. Welcome different ideas about what might have happened and what could help Teddy feel included.

Feelings Station Display

Create an optional feelings check-in with picture cards and name tags. A trusted adult can respond to a child’s choice, offer a private conversation and make room for feelings to change.

Draw Emotions

Offer drawing as one way to share a feeling or experience. Children choose what they want to show or discuss; an adult can listen without asking them to explain personal events in front of the group.

What Happens When You Feel…? Prompt Cards

Use the picture side and adult prompts for a gentle conversation about feelings. Listen to the child’s own meaning, allow different experiences and stop or move on when they prefer not to share.

Let’s Connect — Prompt Cards

Select a relaxed shared activity that helps an adult and child connect. Follow their interests and allow conversation, gesture or comfortable quiet.

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At Our Picnic We… — Display

Use the picnic pictures during real or pretend shared meals to model listening, asking and taking turns. Adapt the words to the children and situation.

Who Will Share This Shell?

Create shell creatures through drawing, playdough or small-world play. Wonder together how the characters could make room, help one another or solve a problem.

Communication & Play Together Boards

Model picture messages for asking, refusing, commenting and sharing ideas during small-world play. Use them alongside each child’s usual communication so that joining in—and saying no—can be understood.

People — Everyday Lives & Relationships

Offer people and everyday props for child-led stories about meeting, helping and spending time together. Children decide who the characters are and what happens; adults can join the conversation without prescribing a friendship story.

Animal Sounds Game

Try a short shared sound game with manageable turns and plenty of adult modelling. Accept imitation, gesture or listening as ways of joining; keep the game playful rather than testing who waits or answers correctly.

Thank You for Being Kind — Cards

Personalise a thank-you card for someone who helped or showed care. Children can choose a picture, make marks or dictate their own message.

Friendship Artwork & Large Cards

Decorate a themed A4 template or collaborate on a large card for someone. Children can choose colours, add their own pictures and contribute a personal message.

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Everyday Writing for a Purpose — Messages

Make paper available when children want to send thanks, invite someone to play or share news. Let them choose a real recipient and communicate through pictures, dictated words or writing at their current level.

Kindness & Friendship Notes

Heart-themed notes and certificates for describing a specific caring action. Children or adults can draw, write or scribe the message.

Kind to Me — Notes & Certificates

Heart and star notes for remembering help or care from another person. Offer them as an invitation when a child has something they want to say.

Friendship Fairy — Notes

A playful note for a caring moment a child wants to recognise. Adults can help put the child’s message into words without requiring a public award.

Be the Reason Someone Smiles — Poster

Use the poster as a starting point for talking about small thoughtful gestures. Leave room for every feeling; nobody has to smile to show they are included.

I Was So Kind Today — Stickers

Optional stickers for acknowledging a particular caring action. Pair them with a specific description of what happened, rather than comparing children.

Kindness Certificate

Personalise a certificate to recognise a specific act of care or help. Choose the wording and format that fit the child and your setting.

Helping Wildlife in Winter — Cards

Look at ways people can care for wildlife in colder weather. Choose an adult-led action suited to your local animals, weather and setting.

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Helping Wildlife — Drawing Prompts

Invite children to draw or describe a way of helping wildlife in winter. Connect the prompt to something observed or done locally, with adult guidance.

Mitzvah Kind Deeds — Display & Notes

A Jewish-context display for talking about kind deeds when exploring Yom Kippur. Connect it to meaningful stories and community knowledge rather than treating all traditions as interchangeable.

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Ramadan — Helping Others

Use the display and response sheets when learning about helping others during Ramadan. Invite children’s ideas while recognising that families observe Ramadan in different ways.

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Poorly Teddy — Posters & Description Match

Match a spoken clue to a Teddy picture, then let the pictures support caring pretend play. Children might notice what Teddy needs, offer help or invent their own story; start with a small choice of pictures.

A4 posters & description match

A5 posters & description match

Getting to Know Me — Adult Prompt Posters

Use open-ended adult prompts to notice a child’s interests, choices, gestures and words. These everyday exchanges help adults build familiar relationships and make room for each child’s way of connecting.

Families — Display & Conversation Posters

Pair inclusive family pictures with familiar photographs and talk about people important to each child. For babies, this is an adult-prepared display and familiar-person conversation; comparing families is not a baby task.

Supporting Emotional Regulation in Baby Rooms — Babies 0–18 Months

Adult guidance on responding calmly to distress and building security through familiar relationships and predictable routines. Use it to consider what a baby is communicating and how an adult can offer comfort.

Supporting Babies and Families Through Change — Birth–18 Months

Reflect on caring, predictable responses when family circumstances or routines change. The guidance supports sensitive partnership with families and continuity of familiar relationships for babies.

PSED Activity Invitations Pack — Toddlers 18–36 Months

Choose brief, responsive PSED invitations to support relationships and daily routines. Adults select experiences that fit the children’s current communication and play, with help available for sharing space, joining in or managing feelings.

Supporting Emotional Regulation Through Language — Toddlers 18–36 Months

Consider the words and calm presence adults offer when a toddler is distressed. Use the co-regulation guidance to discuss consistent, compassionate responses and security rather than expecting children to manage alone.

Preschool PSED — Self-Regulation & Relationships Progression Ladder

Reflect on relationships, social understanding and co-regulation through everyday provision. Use the adult-language examples to plan responsive help, rather than turning feelings or friendships into a checklist.

Self-Regulation & Learning Behaviours — Reception 4–5 Years

Explore how familiar relationships, routines and provision support regulation, attention and persistence. Consider the adult teaching and practical help a child needs, including during shared play and learning.

The Little Red Hen

Explore story props, sequencing and character responses. Talk about helping, choices and fairness through the characters, with room for different viewpoints.

Emotions & Feelings

Explore more feeling pictures, displays, worry prompts and Teddy scenarios. Select a way for children to communicate that suits them, without expecting a single correct response.

Turn-Taking Activities

Browse shared games, circle-time ideas and role-play resources. Model a turn, keep waiting manageable and help children communicate whether they want to join.

Families

Find pictures, drawing and writing resources for people who matter to children. Welcome different family experiences and let children decide what they want to share.

Transitions & Settling In

Find age-specific guidance, welcome materials and family communication for building belonging in a new room or setting. Select the resources for the child’s actual transition; the collection includes separate stages.