What Is it All About?
Students anonymously create and share Butterflies with caring and kind words written on them to brighten a classmate’s day.
Why Do It?
Help spread some joy by anonymously sharing kind thoughts throughout the school. Leave your classmates feeling good and put a smile on your face too!
How Do We Do It?
Cut out numerous paper butterfly shapes, or else small pieces of paper with a butterfly images on them.
Provide the paper butterflies to students.
Students write generic kind messages on them, applicable to all students.
Place all Bounce Back Butterflies in a container and have students each draw one out.
What Else Do We Need?
- Butterfly cut outs, or images of butterflies
- Containers
- Writing utensils
How Do We Get Creative?
Have students create Butterflies for school volunteers and members of the community.
Trade Butterflies with another school, including a nearby feeder school welcoming future grade 8s.
Read Butterflies over the morning announcements.
Create a video of students sending and receiving Butterflies to share online.
Adapted from: Bounce Back … Again, 2nd Edition. Retrieved from https://phecanada.ca/sites/default/files/content/docs/teach-resiliency/bounce%20back%20booklet%202014%20web.pdf/sites/default/files/content/docs/teach-resiliency/bounce%20back%20booklet%202014%20web_0.pdf