1.

Activity name: A Recipe For Friendship

2. Grade Level: kindergarten
3. Standard:

4.6 Identify and practice strategies to make friends.

4. Goal: the goal of this lesson is for students to identify qualities of a

good friend and apply them to making new friends in the class.
5. Objective: After a story, large group discussion, and making a recipe
for friendship, children will know qualities of a good friend and will
apply their knowledge of being a good friend in and out of the
classroom.
6. Materials needed:
o A Pot
o Large Spoon
o Ladle
o Paper
o Markers, Crayons, or pencils
o Book: Can you be a friend
By: Nita Everly
7. Behavior expectations:
Students will be reminded of the basic classroom rules
i. Listen to who is speaking
ii. Criss cross apple sauce, hands in your lap
iii. Hands and feet to your self
iv. Raise your hand if you have to speak
Students will be expected to have their eyes on the teacher
when she is talking and reading the story.
Students will be respectful of classroom materials
Students will actively participate in making the friendship recipe
8. Procedure:
Students will gather quietly at the meeting area
Tell students that they will be learning how to be a good
friend.
o What are some things that good friends do?
Introduce the story Can You Be a Friend?
o Talk about title page, author, pictures

Read the story

Review the story
o What are some things you noticed that a good friend
does?
o Is there anything we didnt think of before we read the
story?
Boys and girls, I would like you to make a large circle around
the outside of the meeting center
Attention Getter
o Put the pot, spoon, and ladle sitting in the center of the
circle in the meeting center
Ask children what a good friend is
Introduce materials to students
o Pot
o Ladle
o Spoon
We are going to be making a recipe for friendship
o I have put a piece of paper for each of you at your table
as well as markers and crayons
Each of you is going to write or draw something that reminds
you of a good friend.
When you are finished you will fold your paper in half. You will
bring it back to the meeting center with you
Explain to students that they need to be good workers. They
will be allowed to talk to one another as long as they are
working hard on their work if a child is having difficulty
focusing on work he or she can be moved to another spot.
Release students by tables
o Red table you may go back to our seats etc.
Give students 5 to 8 minutes to write and draw.
Then have students gather at the meeting center again
Remind students that while you and their friends are speaking
that they should be respectful and listen to what is being said
Call students up (using popsicle sticks) to share their quality
of a good friend
Write what the child says on a large piece of paper titled
Friendship Recipe
Have each child share their drawing with the class and then
put it in the pot
When all the children have finished sharing, stir the pot and
talk about how all the qualities they have thought of make a
good friend.

Tell students that you will hang the recipe up in the room and
they can look at it when they need to be reminded of how to
be a good friend.

9. Simplification: If children are unable to write their characteristic of a

good friend, have the draw it and write what they say on their paper
10.
Extension: have students write a full sentence A good
friend..
11.

Assessment: observations

12.

Observe how students interact during the work time. Take notes!
Note: This activity is best done at the beginning of the year

A friend is a buddy that you can

explore with,
share with,
talk with,
pretend with,
play with,
and
have fun with.
When a friend feels angry, he does
not hit, bite, or kick.
Friends care about other people and do
not want to hurt them!

Should we kick a friend?

No!

Why not?
Because kicking hurts!