🏋️‍♀️ Flex Those Self-Esteem Muscles – Mini Activity Book

When introducing the concept of self-esteem to your students, the vocabulary must be at the level of the children’s understanding. This mini-book introduces self-esteem in a child-friendly way and includes a few activities relating to the individual student.

Topics covered include:

• A definition of self-esteem.
• The difference between low self-esteem and high self-esteem.
• What causes low self-esteem and how to fix it.
• Ways you can boost your self-esteem.

Many of the pages in this book include a square for the students to answer questions along the way; here are some of the self-esteem-related questions included in this mini-book:

• Draw a picture of yourself looking confident.
• How can you change negative self-talk to positive self-talk?
• Draw a picture of one of your strengths or talents.
• What is something positive you can say to yourself?
• Draw a picture of you achieving one of your goals.
• Draw a picture of you using one of your coping skills.
• What makes a good friend?
• What can you look for to identify a negative relationship?
• How do you take care of your health and body?

How to Use this Self-Esteem Mini Book

This mini-book is an extremely versatile resource to use in the classroom. Here are just a few suggestions:

• Send it home as a homework task that students can complete throughout the week.
• Use it to introduce your social-emotional lesson on self-esteem.
• Print the mini book on large paper to make it a larger whole class book and have small groups work on each page.

Download and Use Today!

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This resource was created by Lindsey Phillips, a teacher in Michigan and Teach Starter Collaborator.