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Social Skills Activities for Kids: 50 Fun Exercises for Making Friends, Talking and Listening, and Understanding Social Rules
The fun way for kids 6 to 10 to develop social skills and make friends more easily
What are the Dos and Don’ts for making and keeping friends? How can you decode body language clues? What’s the best way to keep a conversation going? Just like learning multiplication tables, social skills don’t come naturally―every child has to learn them. Luckily, this book makes mastering social skills super fun with 50 awesome activities.
Social Skills Activities for Kids gives children the confidence to successfully navigate social situations at home, school, and the world in between. From keeping the conversation ball moving to learning to compromise to practicing good table manners, these engaging activities help kids develop and use their social skills super powers.
Inside Social Skills Activities for Kids, you’ll find:
Life lessons―Kids learn how to handle everyday social situations like communicating with peers and adults, using and interpreting body language, reading social cues, and more.
50 Interactive activities―Games, fill-in-the-blank exercises, and reflective entries keep kids learning and engaged.
Real scenarios―Includes up-to-date topics like bullying and using social media.
Get the courage to be your very best self with Social Skills Activities for Kids.
What are the Dos and Don’ts for making and keeping friends? How can you decode body language clues? What’s the best way to keep a conversation going? Just like learning multiplication tables, social skills don’t come naturally―every child has to learn them. Luckily, this book makes mastering social skills super fun with 50 awesome activities.
Social Skills Activities for Kids gives children the confidence to successfully navigate social situations at home, school, and the world in between. From keeping the conversation ball moving to learning to compromise to practicing good table manners, these engaging activities help kids develop and use their social skills super powers.
Inside Social Skills Activities for Kids, you’ll find:
Life lessons―Kids learn how to handle everyday social situations like communicating with peers and adults, using and interpreting body language, reading social cues, and more.
50 Interactive activities―Games, fill-in-the-blank exercises, and reflective entries keep kids learning and engaged.
Real scenarios―Includes up-to-date topics like bullying and using social media.
Get the courage to be your very best self with Social Skills Activities for Kids.
152 pages, Paperback
Published March 26, 2019
About the author
Natasha Daniels
18 books48 followersNatasha Daniels is a child anxiety & OCD therapist, who has both clinical expertise and lived experience raising kids with anxiety and OCD. She is the author of Social Skills Activities for Kids, It’s Brave to Be Kind, Anxiety Sucks: A Teen Survival Guide, How to Parent Your Anxious Toddler, The Grief Rock, Crushing OCD Workbook for Kids, Out of My Shell, a memoir about overcoming social anxiety from childhood to adulthood, and her latest, OCD Sucks: A Survival Guide.
She is the creator of childocdtherapist.com, the host of the highly ranked, AT Parenting Survival Podcast and creator of the online parenting community AT Parenting Community and @childocdtherapist on social media.
Her work has been featured in various places including Huffington Post, Scary Mommy, PsychCentral, The Child Mind Institute and The Mighty.
She is the creator of childocdtherapist.com, the host of the highly ranked, AT Parenting Survival Podcast and creator of the online parenting community AT Parenting Community and @childocdtherapist on social media.
Her work has been featured in various places including Huffington Post, Scary Mommy, PsychCentral, The Child Mind Institute and The Mighty.
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October 30, 2019
Perfect for my 6 year old!!
Awesome book for homeschoolers and first time parents.My six year old loves the activities.I love how easy it is to navigate through and all the activities are in order and builds on top of the last activity previously learned.I would def recommend for someone who is looking for a social skills curriculum and just wanting to teach your child awesome social skills that they can use for a lifetime and practice as they grow and learn.
Awesome book for homeschoolers and first time parents.My six year old loves the activities.I love how easy it is to navigate through and all the activities are in order and builds on top of the last activity previously learned.I would def recommend for someone who is looking for a social skills curriculum and just wanting to teach your child awesome social skills that they can use for a lifetime and practice as they grow and learn.
February 21, 2022
I have decided to do weekly home lessons with kids using this book. Every Sunday I sit down with my 3rd and 5th graders and we read it out loud and do exercises, we are going slowly, 1-2 chapters every weekend, but I can see from kids involvement how much they like it, the language, and exercises are tailored for elementary school (not boring, very kind and funny). We are on page 24 and I do not regret the purchase, it's worth every penny.
July 23, 2019
If you've ever studied personality types, you know that we are each created differently, and these differences (including our ability to comfortably interact with the people around us) vary greatly from person to person. That's why it's so important for us as parents, teachers, caretakers, and educators to observe how the children we are entrusted with interact with one another and to help those who are struggling to learn essential social interaction skills at an early age.
Social Skills Activities For Kids is an amazing book filled with 50 fun exercises that will help kids learn how to make friends, engage with adults and peers, and understand the unspoken social rules of society. Written by an LCSW, this book is designed as a series of worksheets and exercises you can teach and practice your kids.
The material in here is actually so good that there are adults that I know who could benefit from these exercises too!
HIghly recommended.
Disclosure: I received a copy of this book from the publisher, but I was not required to post a review. My comments represent my personal impressions of this book!
Social Skills Activities For Kids is an amazing book filled with 50 fun exercises that will help kids learn how to make friends, engage with adults and peers, and understand the unspoken social rules of society. Written by an LCSW, this book is designed as a series of worksheets and exercises you can teach and practice your kids.
The material in here is actually so good that there are adults that I know who could benefit from these exercises too!
HIghly recommended.
Disclosure: I received a copy of this book from the publisher, but I was not required to post a review. My comments represent my personal impressions of this book!
March 15, 2019
thank you, Callisto Publishing, for gifting me a review copy to read and utilize!
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After working with kids and adolescents for quite some time, I find it challenging to find worksheets and workbooks that would ever grab their attention. However, this book has so many fun, engaging activities and exercises to follow that, to me, feel authentic and attuning to the population I work with. Whether you’re using the workbook for the physical worksheets, or adapting the ideas to an individual or group exercise, the possibilities feel endless.
There are a lot of structured, rigid social skills group curriculums out there, and while they’re great, this book gives you the flexibility of fostering a teachable moment on the spot, without the need of following a week by week curriculum. When a specific problem presents itself, such as personal boundaries or making friends, this book has ideas and exercises to support approaching and working through the problem. I’m super grateful, as not many real, on their level books like this exist for kids. Filling a void I felt was there!
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5/5 ⭐️
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After working with kids and adolescents for quite some time, I find it challenging to find worksheets and workbooks that would ever grab their attention. However, this book has so many fun, engaging activities and exercises to follow that, to me, feel authentic and attuning to the population I work with. Whether you’re using the workbook for the physical worksheets, or adapting the ideas to an individual or group exercise, the possibilities feel endless.
There are a lot of structured, rigid social skills group curriculums out there, and while they’re great, this book gives you the flexibility of fostering a teachable moment on the spot, without the need of following a week by week curriculum. When a specific problem presents itself, such as personal boundaries or making friends, this book has ideas and exercises to support approaching and working through the problem. I’m super grateful, as not many real, on their level books like this exist for kids. Filling a void I felt was there!
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5/5 ⭐️
April 6, 2023
Great resource
I loved that it can be used on a device or as a hard copy. I like that it covers all areas of social skills that can be hard for young kids. I can see this book being particularly useful in a small group of 3 or 4 kids over several weeks to talk together and try the exercises. I plan on doing some with my grandkids. I feel it could also be useful for adults I especially as an adult liked the chapters on being a listener and how to keep friends.
I loved that it can be used on a device or as a hard copy. I like that it covers all areas of social skills that can be hard for young kids. I can see this book being particularly useful in a small group of 3 or 4 kids over several weeks to talk together and try the exercises. I plan on doing some with my grandkids. I feel it could also be useful for adults I especially as an adult liked the chapters on being a listener and how to keep friends.
April 13, 2020
Fantastic social skills book for kids
This is a great book full of examples and ideas and scenarios for how to have super ninja social skills and figure things out, from making and keeping friends, navigating school, to manners and tricky social pressures. Great for elementary school.
This is a great book full of examples and ideas and scenarios for how to have super ninja social skills and figure things out, from making and keeping friends, navigating school, to manners and tricky social pressures. Great for elementary school.
August 10, 2023
As a BCBA, this book is going to become a routine pairing activity between my technicians and clients. Incredible activities to teach making friends, talking, listening, and understanding social construct roles.
February 16, 2025
Nice book for primary school children teaches tips about how to handle different types of social situations and friends. Not very wordy and most of it is worksheets with activities and exercises making it a lighter read. Something nice to do/read with maybe a 6 year old child?
January 8, 2020
Skimmed book for activities. Has some good ones that may be useful.
June 16, 2021
Some adults should read this!
Great book! Good reminders for adults and my kids enjoyed the lessons. It made them feel more comfortable in social settings.
Great book! Good reminders for adults and my kids enjoyed the lessons. It made them feel more comfortable in social settings.
June 6, 2026
Dużo ciekawych pomysłów i cały, gotowy program szczególnie dla dzieci z większymi problemami jeśli chodzi o kontakty społeczne.
June 17, 2026
this book is mainly about what are and how to use social skills.
I did genuinely not know I needed this book. It helped me so much!
I did genuinely not know I needed this book. It helped me so much!
March 9, 2019
Whether you are five or ninety-five you have experienced a socially awkward experience – probably more than one. If you say you haven’t, either you’re blind or lying to yourself. We have all gone through those time when we wish we could hide or climb into a shell – many of us do either or both.
Although written with children in mind this book will help kids of all ages. Daniels clearly articulates what all of which we had learned. She walks the reader through the various social relationships which we all encounter throughout life. In each case she outlines what are acceptable and not acceptable behaviors and then with fun and entertaining activities helps the reader practice those things which once ingrained will make life so much easier.
Daniels opens up about her own awkwardness. This draws the reader in and helps them identify with her. She is a successful writer and professional – if she has had problems then its alright for me to admit I have them too. With this transparency she helps the reader own up to their own issues and begin to deal with them appropriately.
Each of the exercises and activities build on the other. And by the time you have finished the book you have developed your social skills “superpowers”.
If you have children or work with children, this book is an invaluable resource to help you help them. It also may help you become more socially adept as well.
Although written with children in mind this book will help kids of all ages. Daniels clearly articulates what all of which we had learned. She walks the reader through the various social relationships which we all encounter throughout life. In each case she outlines what are acceptable and not acceptable behaviors and then with fun and entertaining activities helps the reader practice those things which once ingrained will make life so much easier.
Daniels opens up about her own awkwardness. This draws the reader in and helps them identify with her. She is a successful writer and professional – if she has had problems then its alright for me to admit I have them too. With this transparency she helps the reader own up to their own issues and begin to deal with them appropriately.
Each of the exercises and activities build on the other. And by the time you have finished the book you have developed your social skills “superpowers”.
If you have children or work with children, this book is an invaluable resource to help you help them. It also may help you become more socially adept as well.
March 21, 2019
These are great. I have 3 kids ages 4, 8 and 13. I use some of these activities with my younger girls. Social skills are very important and I think some are getting lost with these. But this book really gives you good ideas to reinforce these skills and teach good life lessons.
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