Bring the powerful message of Patch Work: Bee Brave. Bee Kind. Bee You. to life with ready-to-use social-emotional learning lessons and activities designed for Pre-K through 5th grade.

Created for educators, counselors, and other school professionals, the Patch Work SEL Educator Toolkit helps children turn lessons about kindness, courage, belonging, and confidence into everyday skills. Through engaging, age-appropriate activities, students learn how to include others, stand up for themselves and their peers, celebrate differences, seek help from trusted adults, and repair harm when someone is hurt.

With more than four hours of instruction, each toolkit makes it easy to incorporate meaningful SEL learning into classrooms, counseling sessions, and intervention settings.

Two Versions Available — Choose the Right Fit for Your Students!

Both versions teach the same core Patch Work messages, with lessons and activities thoughtfully designed for different developmental stages.

🐝 Early Childhood Toolkit | Pre-K–1st Grade

Best for: Preschool, kindergarten, and 1st-grade teachers, early childhood educators, school counselors, and professionals working with younger learners.

Designed specifically for young children, this version emphasizes play-based learning, visual supports, storytelling, puppet theater, and creative expression. Activities help children recognize feelings, navigate friendships, practice kindness and bravery, and learn how to make things right when someone is hurt.

This version features:

• 6 SEL lessons with accompanying student worksheets

• 10 puppet theater scenarios featuring real-life school situations, complete with full-color puppets

• 10 extension activities focused on drawing, pre-writing, and creative expression

• A Feelings Chart and visual hand motions poster to reinforce key concepts

🐝 Elementary Toolkit | Grades 2–5

Best for: 2nd–5th grade teachers, elementary school counselors, intervention specialists, and professionals working with older elementary students.

Designed for growing independence and deeper social understanding, this version uses discussion, role-playing, writing, and creative activities to help students apply SEL skills to real-life challenges. Children explore empathy, inclusion, self-advocacy, peer relationships, and how to take responsibility and repair harm.

This version features:

• 12 SEL lessons with accompanying student worksheets

• 10 student role-plays for practicing real-life social situations

• 10 extension activities focused on drawing, writing, and creative expression

• A Feelings Wheel and hand motions poster to reinforce key concepts

What's Included in Both Versions?

Each toolkit includes:

• 3 sets of interactive read-aloud questions to accompany Patch Work: Bee Brave. Bee Kind. Bee You.

• Ready-to-use SEL lessons, student activities, and worksheets

• More than four hours of engaging instruction

• “Bee You, Bee Brave, Bee Kind” poster

• “How to Repair Harm” poster

• “What to Do If You Are Bullied” poster

• Age-appropriate feelings and hand motions posters

• SEL teaching guide for educators

• Flexible options for whole-group, small-group, or one-on-one instruction

Both versions are designed for use in classrooms, counseling groups, and intervention settings, with accessible, engaging activities that are especially supportive of students with disabilities and multilingual learners.

Use the toolkit alongside the Patch Work picture book to deepen students' understanding of its messages, or revisit individual activities throughout the school year to reinforce essential social-emotional skills.

Created by Educators and Child Development Professionals

Created by Sarah Campbell, Taylor Cardwell, and Alexandra Blessing, the Patch Work SEL Educator Toolkit brings together expertise in educational leadership, curriculum design, early childhood and elementary education, literacy, counseling, play therapy, and bullying prevention research.

Sarah is an award-winning educational leader and curriculum design expert; Taylor brings experience in early childhood and elementary education, literacy, and MTSS leadership; and Alexandra is a licensed professional counselor specializing in early childhood counseling and play therapy.

Select your preferred version—Early Childhood (Pre-K–1st Grade) or Elementary (Grades 2–5)—from the options above.

Digital product: PDF download. No physical toolkit will be shipped.