Good Habits Worksheet for Kids: Tick Good and Cross Bad!
This worksheet helps children ages 3-5 build early social-emotional understanding by looking at pictures of everyday behaviors and judging whether each one is a good habit or a bad habit. Making this distinction and marking it with a tick or a cross also introduces basic symbolic reasoning, since children must translate a judgment into a specific mark.
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Month 2: Learning & Development | Ages 4-5
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How to use this worksheet
Look at the first picture together and describe out loud what the child in the picture is doing. Ask your child whether they think it's a good habit or a bad habit, and why. If it's good, have them put a tick in the box; if it's bad, have them put a cross. Continue through the rest of the pictures, encouraging your child to explain their reasoning before marking each one.
Materials needed
- Pencil
- Crayons
Extension activities
- 1Discuss why each habit is good or bad, connecting it to a real situation your child has experienced.
- 2Role-play different scenarios related to the habits shown, acting out both the good and bad version.
- 3Create a 'Good Habits' chart at home to track and reward habits your child is working on.
- 4Make up a short story where a character learns to swap a bad habit for a good one.
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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