Class Projects

A fun activity to show what happens when everyone takes steps to prevent bullying.

• Trace and cut out your foot step on orange paper.
• Write a message on it sharing something you can do for yourself or peers.
• Post all the steps on a hallway floor or wall, in your classroom or even a stairway.

You can participate in the “Students with Solutions” activities. Write a story, create a drawing, take a photograph or film a video. Submit to PACER’s National Bullying Prevention Center to be eligible for awards and recognition. This is a contest for everyone, even entire classrooms!

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A free eight-page classroom activity book featuring the Club Crew from KidsAgainstBullying. The content provides activities to help think about feelings, explore responses to bullying situations, and take the pledge to be a Kid Against Bullying. Available to print as full color or black and white.

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The “Book Club” page has suggestions for bullying prevention books about kids just like you.

See book choices

Watch book readings

A fun way to get ideas for being kind to others.

• Print
• Cut out
• Fold

Then go be kind!

Download Kindness Catcher

Bullying is no fun, but learning about it can be. PACER’s coloring book pdf icon gives teachers and students a great opportunity to talk about bullying while they have fun. Each page includes an important message about respecting others, valuing differences, and being a friend. Discover how kids and crayons can help prevent bullying.

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What

Send in your stories, poetry, or artwork on the topic of bullying. Submissions can be about topics such as: What is bullying? How does bullying make me feel? What can I do to prevent bullying? You can use pencils, markers, paint, crayons, or other art mediums.

Who

Anyone in grades K–5 can enter.

Why

To help prevent bullying, have some fun—and maybe see your submission on the PACER Kids Against Bullying website!

How

Download and fill out the form

Use one form for each submission, send to:
Kids Against Bullying
PACER Center
8161 Normandale Blvd.
Minneapolis, MN 55437

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When

Entries can be submitted anytime.

Tell your parents:

Don’t forget—your mom, dad, or legal guardian will need to sign your entry form!

Legal disclaimer: All submissions become property of PACER Center and will not be returned. PACER Center may use the submissions in part or in whole in any manner. Submissions may be posted to the PACERKidsAgainstBullying.org Web site with contestant’s first name and grade. No other identifying information will be used. ©2022, PACER Center

Link students, schools, and communities – through statements on orange paper – to create a powerful visual about uniting against bullying.

The process is simple. Students write a message on a strip of ORANGE construction paper.

• Create the strips (links) using sheets of 8 ½ x 11 ORANGE construction paper.
• Cut into strips of 1 ½” to 2” wide and 11” long.
• The strips are then stapled or glued together, resulting in one long, connected chain that visually represents the power of uniting for a common cause.

Special thanks to Citrus Grove Elementary in Palm City, Florida, for sharing the inspiration behind Project Connect

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Create a banner that will help students understand the concept of above the line versus below the line behaviors and make a commitment to promoting above the line behaviors at their school.

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The Unity Tree is a powerful symbol reminding everyone that bullying can be prevented when we all come together – united for kindness, acceptance and inclusion.

Creating a Unity Tree is an interactive and hands-on activity, a shared experience in which anyone can participate and everyone can watch the tree grow. Each person contributes their own unique experiences, creative ideas, and strategies by writing positive messages on leaves that are attached to the tree. As the number of leaves increases, it creates a visual reminder, demonstrating that when we are united we can create social change.

Option One: Unity Tree on a Bulletin Board

1. On the classroom wall or bulletin board, create the trunk of a tree, along with branches, with construction paper or materials of your own choosing.
2. Next, cut out leaf shaped pieces of orange paper; make them large enough for students to write a message.

   Below are three options for types of messages, or create your own:

   • If you planted a seed, what would you tell your seed about bullying?
   • What can you do change/impact your school’s culture about bullying?
   • How can you support a friend/peer who is being bullied?
3. Have each student write down their response on a leaf.
4. Attach each of the leaves to the tree.

Option Two: Unity Tree in a Vase

1. Fill the base of a flower vase with the cotton balls, tissue paper, or other materials. Take tree branches, sticks, skinny craft sticks, or another ‘branch-like’ item and place inside the vase, so the material holds it vertically upward.
2. Cut orange paper into strips of 1 ½” to 2” wide and 11” long.
3. Ask participants to write a message on the orange strips of construction paper, which will represent the “leaves” of the tree.

   Below are three options for types of messages, or create your own:

   • If you planted a seed, what would you tell your seed about bullying?
   • What can you do change/impact your school’s culture about bullying?
   • How can you support a friend/peer who is being bullied?
4. Tape each response to the end of the slip around a tree branch, so the message is easy to read.

Supplemental Poster

A poster can also be displayed next to the tree that lists the questions that were used in students creating the messages for the leaves.