Good Habits Worksheet for Kids: Tick and Cross!
Marking each pictured behavior with a tick or a cross asks children ages 4-6 to reason about whether an action is a good habit or a bad one, an early exercise in moral and social reasoning that goes beyond simple right-or-wrong memorization. Using tick and cross symbols also introduces basic symbol literacy, since children need to understand what each mark conventionally represents before they can use it correctly.
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Month 1: Learning & Development | Ages 4-5
This is page 24 of the pack. Ages 4-5 · Pre-KAges 4-5 · ReceptionAges 4-5 · LKGAges 4-5
Curriculum
- Health & Hygiene > Good Habits
How to use this worksheet
Look at each picture with your child and ask them to describe what the person in it is doing before deciding whether it's a good or bad habit. Talk through why a behavior is good or bad rather than letting your child guess silently, since the reasoning matters more than the mark itself. Have your child draw a tick for good habits and a cross for bad habits next to each picture. Review the page together at the end, discussing what your child could do instead of any bad habits shown.
Materials needed
- Pencil
- Crayons
- Scissors
- Glue (optional)
Extension activities
- 1Role-play a few everyday scenarios, like brushing teeth or sharing a toy, and talk about why each is a good habit.
- 2Make a simple sticker chart to track a real good habit your child is working on, like putting away toys.
- 3Sort a set of picture or word cards into 'good habit' and 'bad habit' piles as a matching game.
- 4Talk about one good habit and one habit to work on as a bedtime reflection routine.
- 5Read a book featuring a character learning a good habit and discuss what changed in the story.
Written by
Hemsweta Jain · Teacher Cheena
MBA and Early Childhood Educator, teaching since 2014 · Founder of RaisoActive, Mumbai
Every RaisoActive worksheet is designed and checked by the founder before publishing.
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