Let's Make Friends! Card Game

by Max & Marcia Nass (2010, YouthLight, 17.95)
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Friendship making skills will resonate throughout a child’s lifetime as a basic human need. “Let’s Make Friends” teaches children how to develop relationships with peers in which they feel liked, respected, and valued. The main categories of this fun-filled card game contain the most important skills to making and keeping friends. 84 Cards; Grades K-5.

Friendship Explorers

Edited by Franklin Rubenstein (2010, Franklin Learning, 34.95)
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The most common reason that kids become excluded from social networks, targets of bullying, teasing, etc. is that they are different from the “In” kids in some way. This game is a vital tool for counselors, school psychologists, and teachers to help kids see the benefits of inclusion. Friendship Explorers is a cooperative game that helps players learn to understand similarities and respect differences. Players answer open-ended questions to earn pieces to a 9” x 21” jigsaw puzzle map of the world. Everyone wins when the puzzle is completed. 2-5 Players: Grades 1-7.

You Can Make Friends: An Emotional Intelligence GameBook

by Lawrence Shapiro (2006, Childswork/Childsplay, 21.95/spiral)
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This "Gamebook" helps children with the social skills needed to make friends with others. By using a removable spinner to play multiple games, kids can learn valuable skills while having fun. The skills include: how to look friendly, how to understand the feelings of others, how to act when you meet new people, how to deal with teasing and bullying, and more. The book includes reproducible game tickets and reward coupons. Grades K-6.

Play-2-Learn Dominos: Friendship

by Franklin Rubenstein & Andrea Chorney (2007, Franklin Learning Systems, 24.95)
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In this new game, players have fun playing dominoes while learning how to make new friends, be a good friend, and resolve conflicts in a win-win way. Before playing a domino, a player picks a card from one of four decks and either answers a question or practices a skill. Grades 1 to 5.

Friendship Bingo

by Arden Martenz (2006, MarCo, 16.95)
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Teaches or reinforces friendship skills through the game of bingo. As students play the game and mark their bingo cards, they learn about the things associated with friendship: feelings, character traits, behaviors, pitfalls, and how to begin a friendship. Included are 8 reproducible activity sheets that reinforce all of the topics presented on the bingo cards, except beginning a friendship. For that topic, 10 role plays are included. Also included are 30 bingo boards, calling cards, and instructions for play. Grades 2-5. [8.5” x 11”...15 pages]

True Friends

by Franklin Rubenstein & Andrea Chorney (2005, Franklin Learning Systems, 49.95)
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Players learn what it takes to be a true friend. And keep their true friends, as they have fun navigating the challenging world of cliques, pressures and changing interests. 2-6 Players. Game contents: Game board, 6 pawns, rules sheet, 6 decks of cards, one die, and a teacher booklet. Grades 3-6.

Circle of Friends Board Game

Edited (1999, Childswork/Childsplay, 54.95)
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A fun game that shows children how to make--and keep--friends! Your students will learn friendship-building skills such as listening, patience, and paying attention. And, how to deal with the various friendship issues, such as teasing, bullies, jealousy, and anger. This game features a "small town" board where the friends live and socialize. The players are asked questions, and with the right answer, acquire new friends and Pop-it beads. When enough beads are collected to form a "circle of friends" around all players, everyone wins! For 2-6 players; Grades K-6.

Friendship Island Board Game

Edited (2005, Franklin Learning Systems, 49.95)
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The principles of friendship emphasized in both versions of the game include sharing, being a good listener, taking into account the needs of a friend, the importance of talking out problems, etc., will continue to be valid into adulthood. A “Teachers Guide” with complete lesson plans for both versions of the game is included. Students practice reading skills (reading the cards) & math skills (handling the point certificates). Students are challenged to use critical thinking in answering questions & in forming their strategies for playing the game. During the post-game discussion students link their experience in the game with real life. Grades 1-4.

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