Teaching Module
Friendship Day!
Duration: 2 hours
Objective:
● To educate students about the significance of Friendship Day.
● To engage students in activities that celebrate friendship.
● To instil a sense of community and appreciation among students.
Introduction
1. Welcome and Introduction to Friendship Day
Content to Teach: Explain that Friendship Day is a day to celebrate
friendships and appreciate the people who make our lives better. It started
in the United States in 1935 and is now celebrated worldwide. Emphasise
the importance of friendship in our lives, such as how friends help us
grow, support us, and make us happy.
2. Discussion on Friendship Bracelets (10 minutes)
Content to Teach: Friendship bracelets are a traditional way to show
someone you care about them. They originated from American culture
and symbolise friendship, trust, and bond. Making and giving a friendship
bracelet means you value the friendship and want it to last.
Activities
Activity 1: Friendship Bracelet Making
Materials Needed: Colourful threads, beads, scissors.
● Instructions: Teach students how to make simple friendship
bracelets using threads and beads. Encourage them to think about
colours their friends might like. Once done, they should exchange
bracelets with their friends to symbolise their bond.
Activity 2: Friendship Tree
● Materials Needed: Large paper or poster board, markers, crayons,
double sided tape, leaves cut from coloured paper.
● Instructions:
○ Draw a large tree on the poster board.
○ Each student writes their name and a positive quality or good
deed on a paper leaf.
○ Attach the leaves to the tree, creating a visual representation of
their positive traits.
Content to Teach:
○ Discuss how each positive quality contributes to a strong and
beautiful "friendship tree."
○ Explain how friendships are like trees: they need care and
positive actions to grow strong.
○ Highlight that each student's unique qualities help build a
supportive and caring community.
○ Encourage students to share stories of how they have been
good friends to others, reinforcing the importance of positive
actions in friendships.
Activity 3: My Special Friend Recipe
● Materials Needed: Paper, pens, crayons.
● Instructions:
○ Each student creates an "ingredient list" of the qualities they
think a special friend should have (e.g., compassion, kindness,
honesty).
○ They can draw or write these qualities.
Content to Teach:
○ New Word | Dash - very little, ⅛ of a teaspoon (that little)
○ Explain that just like a recipe needs good ingredients to make a
delicious dish, friendships need good qualities to make them
strong and lasting.
○ Discuss some of the qualities the students came up with and
why they are important in a friendship.
○ Encourage students to think about how they can embody
these qualities to be good friends themselves.
Activity 4: Three-Legged Race
● Materials Needed: Scarfs or chunnis
● Instructions:
○ Pair up the students and have them tie one of their legs
together with their partner's leg using the cloth strips.
○ Set up a start and finish line.
○ Explain that they need to communicate and coordinate their
movements to successfully complete the race.
Content to Teach:
○ Emphasise the importance of communication and working
together in friendships.
○ Highlight how challenges can be overcome more easily when
friends support each other.
Activity 5: Tug-of-War
● Materials Needed: A sturdy rope.
● Instructions:
○ Divide students into two teams.
○ Mark a centre line and position the teams on either side of the
line.
○ Explain the rules of tug-of-war and ensure they understand
safety precautions.
Content to Teach:
○ Discuss how teamwork and collective effort are essential in
friendships.
○ Emphasise that while the game is competitive, the goal is to
have fun and work together as a team.
Closing
Content to Teach: Reflect on the activities and discuss what they learned
about friendship. End with a group hug or a friendship cheer to celebrate
the day.
Materials Checklist
Colourful threads and beads for bracelet making
Large paper or poster board, markers, crayons, stickers, and paper
leaves for the Friendship Tree
Paper, pens, crayons for My Special Friend Recipe
Scarfs/chunnis for the Three-Legged Race
A sturdy rope for Tug-of-War
Important Notes!
● Alternatives for materials are as follows:
○ Large poster board - One big chart paper that can be hung up
on the white board. If not the chart paper, simply draw a tree
on the white board.
○ If coloured paper leaf cutouts cannot be arranged, we can
provide a template of a leaf on a white paper, which can be
printed and handed to students. If not this, please use
post-its/yellow square sticky notes.
○ For the Tug-of-War, if there is no rope, securely tie multiple
scarfs/chunnis together to replicate a rope.
● Attached is the template for the recipe to a good friend. Please print
it out for the students.
● Colour pencils, crayons, sketch pens would make the session more
engaging for the students. Therefore we urge volunteers to please
imperatively carry these from their side.
Any and all feedback is appreciated!
