Below are the best friendship day activities that guarantee hours of fun! All you need is a pack of cards and your best friends, and you are good to go.
Friendship is a ship of many virtues: trust, love, empathy, kindness, compassion, support, feeling safe, and accepting each other without being judged.
Friendship among pre-schoolers starts by exploring friendship through activities. Kids learn friendship skills like sharing, active listening, asking questions, empathizing, happily working in groups, and inviting others to join. However, friendship among middle-schoolers grows through emotional connections according to their interests, compatibility, and comfort with like-mindedness.
To honor the significance of friendship and foster kindness and unity, India typically celebrates Friendship Day on the first Sunday of August. However, International Friendship Day, also known as World Friendship Day, is observed on July 30th annually. It’s worth noting that various countries celebrate National Friendship Day on different dates.
To help pre-schoolers and primary-schoolers develop friendship skills through fun and engaging game and friendship day activities, we have got you covered with some of our all-time favorites:
- My Special Friend Recipe:
The easy activity from one of the friendship day activities will help your children create an ingredient list, where they have to list the best qualities their special friend should have. For example, compassion—one that doesn’t make you feel bad about yourself, friends who do not yell at each other, etc.—is a wonderful yet effective activity to know who kids want to gel with to create a special bond.
- Buddy Hunt:
The fun activity allows children to think and identify one of their friends through cue cards and clues written on them. For example, I am shy with others, but I’m talkative with you. I’m a cake enthusiast, I love to dance, and mathematics is my favorite subject. Buddy Hunt helps you identify the traits of your friends and find them in a group full of kids with similar or dissimilar interests.
- Make a friendship bracelet:
Creating bracelets is one of the quickest ways to start a friendship. Children can use various materials to make friendship bands/bracelets. You can braid embroidered strings, laces, and fabric scraps and use beads while making them.
- Create customized friendship letters/cards:
Create personalized cards and write letters to friends, expressing love and affection through words of encouragement. The joyful idea is to make your friend feel unique and essential in your life. You can gather photos or snaps of them with you, write personal letters, paint their favorite abstract/cartoon pictures, and gift them in person, via mail, or by speed post if they live distantly.
- Make a friendship book/journal:
There is no rule for you on how to design a friendship book or what to include. Create a story about your friendship. To start, you can decorate a blank journal or scrapbook with friendship charms, illustrations, photographs, stickers, etc. You can highlight birthdays, important events, and unique details about what makes your friendship special.
- What’s common between us?
The game is a fantastic activity for breaking those awkward barriers. You have to list five to ten things that two or more people playing this game might have in common. Kids not only learn a lot about each other in different social groups, but the activity also promotes unity and teamwork.
- Friendship chain:
Friendship chains are one of the most exciting friendship day activities in a group setting. Anyone can start mentioning five sound qualities of a friend, followed by friends who keep naming other friends and making notes of different attributes. In the end, it forms a chain of thoughts/qualities required in a friendship. You can play friendship chain in an online setting through a jamboard.
- Pictionary with pals:
Playing pictionary means keeping the vibrant energy of these activities. Pictionary is one of the best friendship day activities. One of your friends will give you a word/movie/song/animal/place; you have to draw the same, and your group will start guessing the thing.
- Friendship art and craft:
Most of these art and craft ideas are easy to create and are trending for friendship day activities. You can make your friend’s favorite thing, like a rainbow, fish, flower, egg, or animal, using clay, paper, colors, sketch pens, and other materials.
- Fun trivia quiz:
A fun trivia quiz for friends is to answer exciting, fun facts about friends’ favorite things. For example, What is your best friend’s dream place- the city of joy? Fun trivia questions and answers will make your friends think and identify the things that they love.
“Friendship doesn’t have a destination to reach but is the most special relationship that makes the journey worth enjoying.”
Friendship Day is a momentous day to awaken the feeling of having a friend. The famous saying “A friend in need is a friend indeed” reminds you that having a loyal friend is a genuine feeling of knowing you are doing the right thing. On this Friendship Day with your friends, play memorable and entertaining friendship day activities to bring a smile to their faces and hang out with them.
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