Good Habits Worksheet for Kids: Identifying Good and Bad Behaviors

How to use this worksheet

Look at each picture together and ask your child to describe what the child in the scenario is doing. Talk through whether the action is a good habit, like brushing teeth or sharing toys, or a bad habit, like throwing food or not washing hands. Once they've decided, have them color the thumbs-up symbol green for good habits or the thumbs-down symbol red for bad habits. Go through every scenario this way, pausing to discuss any picture where your child seems unsure.

Materials needed

• Crayons or colored pencils

Extension activities

• 1Create a 'good habit chart' at home where your child adds a sticker each time they demonstrate one of the habits from the worksheet, like brushing teeth without reminders.
• 2Role-play both the good and bad version of a scenario, like sharing versus grabbing a toy, and ask your child which one felt better and why.
• 3Read a picture book about manners or hygiene and pause to ask whether each character is showing a good or bad habit.
• 4Make up a short song or rhyme together about one good habit, like handwashing, to help it stick in memory.
• 5Ask your child to teach a younger sibling or stuffed animal one good habit from the worksheet, explaining it in their own words.