Help kindergartners make paper chains to illustrate how caring they really can be. On differently colored strips of paper, write down caring phrases like "help my mom/dad with chores," "help clean up after dinner" and "share my toys." Read all the phrases out loud to the students so they know what types of activities demonstrate caring. Instruct them to cut out the links and glue or tape them together to form a chain. Ask them to take the chain home, and with the help of their parents, see if they can remove all the links in one week. You can even reward the student who removes all of her links the fastest with a prize or special announcement.
Promote caring and compassionate acts with small rewards and special distinctions in your kindergarten classroom. Cut out 10 to 20 small hearts out of red construction paper and write the word "caring" on each. Explain to the kids that for one week, you will be paying special attention to students who display caring acts to their fellow students. Caring acts may include sharing supplies, helping another student with an activity or being especially polite to the teacher and students. Each time you see a child demonstrating a caring act, reward him with a caring heart. At the end of each day, give each student that received three or more hearts a small sticker or prize.
Teach kindergartners to care for their friends with a mystery friend game. Write all the children's names on small pieces of paper, fold them and place them in a hat or bag. At the beginning of the week, ask each child to pick a name from the hat. This will be their mystery friend that they must keep secret during the entire week. Each day, ask the kids to do something special for their mystery friend or secretly give small gifts. At the end of the week, let all the kids guess who their mystery friend was. Award all the kids will small prizes for showing such caring behavior during the week.
Show kindergartners how nice it feels to share kind, caring words with their classmates with a beanbag toss game. Ask all the kids to sit in a circle outside or in the classroom. Give them a beanbag to toss around to each other in the circle. When a child receives the beanbag, she says hello to another student in the circle and says something nice about him as she tosses the bag. The game continues until all the kids have said hello to another student and one nice thing has been said about everyone.