A kid-friendly friendship and social skills toolkit for learning feelings, body clues, kind vs. unkind behavior, friendship safety, speaking up, asking for help, and trusting when something feels yucky. Includes scripts, practice scenarios, and a friendship check-in.
Friendship Toolkit: Kids Edition is designed for younger children and the grown-ups who support them. It teaches that social skills are not only about being kind to others. They are also about knowing yourself, reading what other people are doing, trusting your gut, and standing up for yourself when something feels yucky or unfair.
Want support for older ages too? This toolkit is part of the Friendship Toolkit series, with Tween, Teen, and Adult editions for different developmental and relationship needs.
FRIENDSHIP + SOCIAL SKILLS TOOLKIT FOR KIDS
This toolkit helps children notice their feelings, read body and voice clues, understand kind versus unkind behavior, speak up, and ask for help when something does not feel right.
Feelings and Body Clues
Helps kids notice feelings early using a simple feelings volume meter and body-based clues.
Reading Other People
Teaches children to look at face, body, and voice clues to understand how someone else may be feeling.
What Good Friends Do
Explains friendship safety through signs of being seen, included, respected, and able to be yourself.
Kind vs. Unkind Behavior
Helps kids recognize loud and quiet unkind behavior, including sneaky meanness and “just kidding” comments.
What to Say and Do
Gives simple scripts for speaking up, asking for space, taking a break, and getting help.
Friendship Check-In
A reflection page to help kids think honestly about whether a friendship feels healthy, confusing, or not like a good fit.
This toolkit is a psychoeducational resource and is not a substitute for mental health treatment, school support services, bullying intervention, crisis care, safety planning, or individualized clinical guidance. If a child reports bullying, harassment, unsafe contact, threats, self-harm concerns, or harm from others, involve a trusted adult or licensed professional immediately.