Friendship Qualities | Counseling Mini Lesson | Making Friends | Social Skills

What makes someone a good friend? Our Friendship Skills Lesson helps students explore positive and negative friendship qualities and think about the kind of friend they want to be.

Created for school counselors, social workers and teachers, our friendship mini-lesson works well in small groups, individual sessions or whole-class SEL lessons on making and keeping friends.

What’s included in our Friendship Skills Lesson:

• 16 pages of lesson pages and worksheets
• Introduction about why friendships matter
• My Friends pages to write about and draw their friends
• Agree or disagree friendship statements
• “Circle the good friend” picture worksheet and a match the friendship qualities page
• Let’s learn about your friends and “What are your friendship qualities?” worksheets
• Friendship qualities: circle the qualities you have, then rank 9 qualities in order of importance
• “I am a friend when…”, “A good friend can, will and is…” and Find a Friend pages

Ways to use our friendship worksheets:

• Small group counseling on making friends
• Whole-class SEL lessons at the start of the year
• Individual sessions after friendship troubles
• Find a Friend as a class ice breaker

Why you’ll love it:

• A mix of drawing, writing and discussion activities
• Helps students reflect on their own friendship skills
• Print and go, with no prep

Help students build strong friendships with our Friendship Skills Lesson!

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🩷 Looking for more Friendship & Peer resources?

• Asking for Help Brochure
• Color by Friendship Skills
• Friendship Escape Challenge
• Friendship Qualities Wheel
• Friendship Restorative Circle Questions
• Kindness Flowers Friendship Craft
• Making Friends Posters
• Peer Pressure vs Support Sort
• Personal Space Brochure – Social Skills
• Problem Solving Brochure
• Respecting Privacy Brochure
• Responsibility Brochure
• Sharing with Others Brochure
• Showing Respect Brochure
• Social Cues Brochure
• Social Skills – Conflict & Body Language
• Stereotypes & Bias Lesson – Middle School
• Taking Turns Brochure
• Teen Talk Game 1 – Friendships & Peer Pressure
• Time Management Brochure – Social Skills

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