Kindness What Would You Do? Cards — Think, Choose, Act
A purple coat soaking in a puddle under the hooks. A kindergartner who can’t quite reach the water fountain.
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About this resource
A purple coat soaking in a puddle under the hooks. A kindergartner who can’t quite reach the water fountain. These kindness what would you do scenarios train Grades 2–5 to notice what someone needs and do something about it. In 40 scenes, students weigh three action cards (help fully, help a little or walk on by) and give a reason, growing the Social Awareness that turns noticing into doing.
What students practice
- Doing small, helpful acts every day
- Noticing what someone needs and stepping in
- Giving and sharing without expecting anything back
- Treating animals with gentleness and care
- Being kind even when it’s hard, rushed or awkward
What’s inside
- 40 scenario cards in five subtopics: Everyday Kind Acts, Noticing What Others Need, Generosity Without Expecting Anything Back, Compassion for Animals and Being Kind When It’s Not Easy
- 120 action cards, from a thoughtful help to doing nothing
- 40 reflection sheets
- Implementation tips and five classroom uses; 77 pages total
A look inside
- Two Coins Left: Thabo keeps picking up a fifty-cent tiger bookmark, and you have two quarters. Buy It Quietly, Buy and Announce It or Buy a Pencil Topper?
- Frog in the Bucket: a little frog keeps sliding down the rain bucket. The best card is Make a Stick Ramp.
- The Glue Stick Question: Viggo laughed at your drawing this morning; now he asks, “Can I borrow yours?”
How to use these kindness what would you do cards
- Debate: why is Buy It Quietly kinder than Buy and Announce It?
- Role-play Tired Feet on the Bus and act out what happens next
- Exit ticket on The Snowy Front Steps
- Create Your Own Scenario station
Grade fit
Fifteen scenes are at school, 14 at home and 11 in the community: a toppled bike rack, an umbrella at pickup, a classmate in a cast. The needs are concrete, so the cards fit Grades 2–5 and slot into kindness activities or SEL decision making activities.
Digital version
The interactive digital version shares as one link: students answer the think questions (or just read them in the quick format), choose an action card and say why, on any device with no student logins. At the end they download an answer sheet to hand in.
Good to know
In three of the Compassion for Animals scenes (a cat on the doormat, a dog panting outside a store, a baby bird in the grass), the most helpful card brings in a grown-up rather than handling the animal.
Pairs well with
For written practice, try Kindness Scenario Cards or the multiple-choice Kindness Worksheets.
Questions teachers ask
Is kindness here the same as empathy?
The scenes center on kind, helpful acts and practical needs, like dropped crayons or a shelf someone can’t reach, more than on comforting words.
Do students need logins for the digital version?
No. You share one link and students open it on any device.
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