Is This Being a Good Friend? SEL Sorting & Coloring Freebie

Help your students build real-world social skills with this simple, visual SEL freebie that gets kids thinking, talking, and sorting!

This Good Friend activity is perfect for introducing friendship skills in a non-judgmental, concrete way that young learners understand.

What’s Included

This freebie includes two engaging SEL activities:

✔ Good Friend Sorting Cards

Students decide if each behavior shows being a good friend or not a good friend.

Perfect for:

• Pocket charts
• Morning meeting discussions
• Small groups
• SEL centers

✔ Good Friend Coloring Page

A large, visual worksheet where students color:

• YES = yellow
• NO = red

This makes abstract friendship behaviors easy to understand and discuss.

NEW Friendship Skills Activities:

Friendship Behavior Sort

Friendship Coloring Page Prompts & Journal (Prek)

Spot a Good Friend Craft (ladybug)

Good Friend VS Bad Friend Social Story

Friendship Sticker Stories (sequencing)

Community Building Friendship Sticker Stories (sequencing)

We Don't Eat Our Classmates Craft

Friendship Bingo

Magic of Friendship Snowman Craft

Skills Covered

• Identifying kind vs unkind behaviors
• Social awareness
• Perspective taking
• Classroom behavior expectations
• SEL discussion and reasoning

How to Use

• Use the sorting cards in a pocket chart for whole-group discussion
• Let students work independently or with a partner
• Use the coloring page as:
• A follow-up activity
• An SEL journal page
• Morning work or calm-down time