Teaching Empathy to Kids?

We understand that helping your students understand the term ‘empathy’ can be a bit tricky. After all, this is quite a big word for little learners! Let’s take a quick look at how you can explain this social awareness concept to your students.

Empathy is when you can understand and share the feelings of someone else. For example, when your friend is sad because they lost their favorite toy, you can imagine how it would feel if you lost your favorite toy, too. 

When a person is empathetic, they are kind and caring to others and try to help them when they are happy or sad. It’s like having a big heart that can understand how other people feel!

Empathy Worksheets for Early Years

Teach Starter has created a set of 9 empathy worksheets to help your students understand and recognize this social skill! With this teacher-created resource, you will receive:

• What Would You Do? Worksheet
• Color by Code Worksheet (Showing Empathy vs. Not)
• How Would You Feel? Worksheet
• Empathy Means… Worksheet
• I Can Show Empathy Worksheet (Describing and Illustrating Ways to Show Empathy)
• Empathy in Action Worksheet (Examples of Empathy and Home, School, and While Playing Sports)
• Empathy Looks Like, Sounds Like, Feels Like Worksheet
• Showing Empathy Worksheet
• Cut and Paste Empathy Worksheet

How to Get Your Empathy Worksheets

If you are ready for your students to use these SEL worksheets, head on over to the green download button to access the quick-print PDF or editable Google Slides file. If selecting the Google Slides option, please note that you will first be prompted to make a copy of the resource to your personal drive before accessing it.

This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a Teach Starter Collaborator. 

Extra Activities for Your SEL Lessons!

Are you ready to fill your teaching toolkit with more social emotional learning resources? Check out some of our empathy-related activities below!

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