The Bad Seed Activity Pack

Help your students reflect, grow, and make positive choices with this The Bad Seed SEL activity pack! Perfect for grades K–2, this resource is designed to support your read-aloud of The Bad Seed by Jory John & Pete Oswald.

This engaging pack includes fun, hands-on activities, writing prompts, and crafts that promote social-emotional learning, kindness, and growth mindset. Students will explore how the Bad Seed changes his ways—and reflect on how they can too!

✔ “Turn the Bad Seed Good” Craft – Seed template for students to decorate with drawings or words about kindness and positive choices.

✔ Character Change Timeline Worksheet – Helps students sequence events and understand character development.

✔ Bad Seed or Good Deed? – Printable cut & paste activity to identify positive and negative behaviors.

✔ “I’m a Good Seed When…” Writing Prompt – Encourages self-reflection through writing or drawing

✔ Compare & Contrast Venn Diagram – Bonus activity to compare The Bad Seed and The Good Egg.